Add to ORKGSees parallels between De la Mare’s 1910 book and Tolkien’s work. Wonders if Tolkien encountered it
Discusses several homophones of “orc” in fantastic literature as possible sources for Tolkien
Identifies the years Tolkien used as a basis for moon phases and other celestial events in The Lord ...
Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien not represented in Judith ...
Notes that Tolkien only admitted one post-medieval source as an influence—Haggard’s She series—and t...
Traces moral, religious, and creative parallels between MacDonald and Tolkien. Finds that Christiani...
Concerns the roots of the wizard Gandalf’s character in the legendary figure of Merlin, tracing Merl...
Notes many similarities between De la Mare’s rather obscure fantasy, The Three Mulla-Mulgars (later ...
A look into Tolkien’s thoughts on creativity, not just through “On Fairy-stories” and “Leaf by Niggl...
Discusses the review essays Tolkien wrote for The Years’ Work in English Studies in 1923–1926, and f...
A somewhat playful look at Tolkien’s invented languages, deducing some of the rules for evolution fr...
Considers the influence of some of Tolkien’s earliest childhood reading, the Andrew Lang fairy books...
Recounts the author’s encounters with Tolkien’s written scholarship at Oxford, and attendance at a T...
Examines links between Chesterton and Tolkien “developing from a mutually strong religious convictio...
Analyzes Smith of Wootton Major as a statement of Tolkien’s theories on fantasy writing, particularl...
Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewin...
Discusses several homophones of “orc” in fantastic literature as possible sources for Tolkien
Identifies the years Tolkien used as a basis for moon phases and other celestial events in The Lord ...
Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien not represented in Judith ...
Notes that Tolkien only admitted one post-medieval source as an influence—Haggard’s She series—and t...
Traces moral, religious, and creative parallels between MacDonald and Tolkien. Finds that Christiani...
Concerns the roots of the wizard Gandalf’s character in the legendary figure of Merlin, tracing Merl...
Notes many similarities between De la Mare’s rather obscure fantasy, The Three Mulla-Mulgars (later ...
A look into Tolkien’s thoughts on creativity, not just through “On Fairy-stories” and “Leaf by Niggl...
Discusses the review essays Tolkien wrote for The Years’ Work in English Studies in 1923–1926, and f...
A somewhat playful look at Tolkien’s invented languages, deducing some of the rules for evolution fr...
Considers the influence of some of Tolkien’s earliest childhood reading, the Andrew Lang fairy books...
Recounts the author’s encounters with Tolkien’s written scholarship at Oxford, and attendance at a T...
Examines links between Chesterton and Tolkien “developing from a mutually strong religious convictio...
Analyzes Smith of Wootton Major as a statement of Tolkien’s theories on fantasy writing, particularl...
Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewin...
Discusses several homophones of “orc” in fantastic literature as possible sources for Tolkien
Identifies the years Tolkien used as a basis for moon phases and other celestial events in The Lord ...
Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien not represented in Judith ...