Add to ORKGTraces moral, religious, and creative parallels between MacDonald and Tolkien. Finds that Christianity gives Tolkien’s work “a firm structure and objectivity” as opposed to the “fervent but rather formless spirituality” due to MacDonald’s romanticism
Examines “the northern spirit” in Tolkien’s fiction, the tension between the spirit of “uttermost en...
Recounts the author’s encounters with Tolkien’s written scholarship at Oxford, and attendance at a T...
Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien 1947–1971
Examines links between Chesterton and Tolkien “developing from a mutually strong religious convictio...
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Notes that Tolkien only admitted one post-medieval source as an influence—Haggard’s She series—and t...
A look into Tolkien’s thoughts on creativity, not just through “On Fairy-stories” and “Leaf by Niggl...
Discusses several homophones of “orc” in fantastic literature as possible sources for Tolkien
Discusses the review essays Tolkien wrote for The Years’ Work in English Studies in 1923–1926, and f...
Concerns the roots of the wizard Gandalf’s character in the legendary figure of Merlin, tracing Merl...
Examines all the minor, early poems that relate to (or seem to relate to) Middle-earth. Compares dif...
Asserts that Lewis and MacDonald wrote books not for children but for the childlike in all. Distingu...
Sees parallels between De la Mare’s 1910 book and Tolkien’s work. Wonders if Tolkien encountered it
Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien not represented in Judith ...
Examines all the minor, early poems that relate to (or seem to relate to) Middle-earth. Compares dif...
Examines “the northern spirit” in Tolkien’s fiction, the tension between the spirit of “uttermost en...
Recounts the author’s encounters with Tolkien’s written scholarship at Oxford, and attendance at a T...
Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien 1947–1971
Examines links between Chesterton and Tolkien “developing from a mutually strong religious convictio...
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Notes that Tolkien only admitted one post-medieval source as an influence—Haggard’s She series—and t...
A look into Tolkien’s thoughts on creativity, not just through “On Fairy-stories” and “Leaf by Niggl...
Discusses several homophones of “orc” in fantastic literature as possible sources for Tolkien
Discusses the review essays Tolkien wrote for The Years’ Work in English Studies in 1923–1926, and f...
Concerns the roots of the wizard Gandalf’s character in the legendary figure of Merlin, tracing Merl...
Examines all the minor, early poems that relate to (or seem to relate to) Middle-earth. Compares dif...
Asserts that Lewis and MacDonald wrote books not for children but for the childlike in all. Distingu...
Sees parallels between De la Mare’s 1910 book and Tolkien’s work. Wonders if Tolkien encountered it
Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien not represented in Judith ...
Examines all the minor, early poems that relate to (or seem to relate to) Middle-earth. Compares dif...
Examines “the northern spirit” in Tolkien’s fiction, the tension between the spirit of “uttermost en...
Recounts the author’s encounters with Tolkien’s written scholarship at Oxford, and attendance at a T...
Briefly annotated checklist of minor early secondary materials on Tolkien 1947–1971