Tom A. Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien
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compiled by André Gand
last modified on May 18, 2010
- Books (as Author)
- Roots and Branches. Selected Papers on Tolkien, Zürich: Walking Tree, 2007.
- J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century, London: Harper Collins, 2000. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
- The Road to Middle-earth, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. London: Grafton, 1992 [revised and expanded], London: HarperCollins, 1997 [revised and expanded], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 [second revised edition].
- Selected Essays
Many of the essays have been reprinted in Root and Branches.
- “New Learning and New Ignorance: Magia, Goeteia, and the Inklings”, in: Myth and Magic. Art according to the Inklings, eds. Eduardo Segura and Thomas Honegger, Zürich: Walking Tree, 2007, 21-46.
- “Tolkien, medievalism, and the philological tradition”, in: Bells Chiming from the Past: Cultural and Linguistic Studies on Early English, eds. Isabel Moskowich-Spiegel and Begona Crespo-Garcia, Costerus NS 174, Amsterdam und New York: Rodopi, 2007, 265-279.
- “Alliterative Verse by Tolkien”, “Buchan, John (1875–1940)”, “Cruces in Medieval Literature”, “Lewis, C.S. (1898–1963)”, “Literature, Twentieth Century: Influence of Tolkien”, “Mythology, Germanic”, “New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District, A”, “Old Norse Language”, “Owl and the Nightingale, The”, “Poems by Tolkien in other Languages”, “Poems by Tolkien: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil”, “Poems by Tolkien: Uncollected”, “Scholars of Medieval Literature, Influence of”, “Ylfe, Álfar, Elves”, in: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia. Scholarship and Critcal Assessment, ed. Michael D.C. Drout, New York and London: Routledge, 2007, 10-11, 77-78, 111, 356-360, 378-382, 449-450, 457, 472, 488-489, 514-515, 515-517, 532-535, 594-598, 719-720.
- “History in Words: Tolkien's Ruling Passion”, in: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004. Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder, ed. Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, Milwaukee: Marquette UP, 2006, 25-39.
- “Tolkien and the Appeal of the Pagan: Edda and Kalevala”, in: Tolkien and the Invention of Myth, ed. Jane Chance, Louisville: University Press of Kentucky, 2004, 145-161.
- “Light-elves, Dark-elves and Others: Tolkien’s Elvish Problem”, Tolkien Studies 1 (2004): 1-15.
- “The Other Road to Middle-earth. Jackson's Movie Trilogy”, in: Understanding The Lord of the Rings, eds. Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004, 233-255.
- “Allegory Versus Bounce: Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major”, together with Verlyn Flieger, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 12, no.2 (2001): 186-200.
- “The Versions of ‘The Hoard’”, Lembas 100 (2001): 3-7.
- “Grimm, Grundtvig, Tolkien: Nationalisms and the Invention of Mythologies”, in: The Ways of Creative Mythologies: Imagined Worlds and Their Makers 1, ed. Maria Kuteeva, Telford: Tolkien Society Press, 2000, 7-17.
- “The Undeveloped Image. Anglo-Saxon in Popular Consciousness from Turner to Tolkien”, in: Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century, eds. Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000, 215-236.
- “Orcs, Wraiths, Wights: Tolkien's Images of Evil”, in: J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances. Views of Middle-earth, eds. George Clark and Daniel Timmons, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, 183-198.
- “Tolkien and the Gawain-Poet”, in: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, eds. Patricia Reynolds and Glen H. GoodKnight, Milton Keynes: The Tolkien Society, Altadena, CA: The Mythopoeic Society, 1995, 213-219.
- “Tolkien and the West Midlands: The Roots of Romance”, Lembas Extra (1995): 5-22.
- “Noblesse Oblige. Images of Class in Tolkien”, Lembas Extra (1994): 27-43.
- “Tolkien as a Post-War Writer”, in: Scholarship and Fantasy: Proceedings of The Tolkien Phenomenon, ed. K.J. Batterbee, Anglicana Turkuensia 12, Turku: University of Turku, 1993, 217-36.
- “Tolkien and ‘The Homecoming of Beohrtnoth’”, Leaves from the Tree. J.R.R. Tolkien's Shorter Fiction, London: Tolkien Society, 1991, 5-16.
- “Tolkien's Academic Reputation Now”, Amon Hen 100 (1989): 18-22.
- “Long Evolution. The History of Middle-earth and Its Merits”, Arda 1987
(1992): 18-39.
- “A Look at Exodus and Finn and Hengest”, Arda 1982-83 (1986): 72-80.
- “A Wose by any Other Name”, Amon Hen 45 (1980): 8-9.
- “Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings”, in: J.R.R. Tolkien. Scholar and Storyteller, eds. Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979, 286-316.
