Editing J. R. R. Tolkien (section)

== Further reading ==
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A small selection of books about Tolkien and his works:
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* {{cite book |title=Tolkien Studies, An Annual Scholarly Review |title-link=Tolkien Studies |publisher=West Virginia University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-937058-87-9 |editor-last=Anderson |editor-first1=Douglas A. |editor-link1=Douglas A. Anderson |editor-last2=Drout |editor-first2=Michael D. C. |editor-link2=Michael Drout |editor-last3=Flieger |editor-first3=Verlyn |editor-link3=Verlyn Flieger |volume=I |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Carpenter |first=Humphrey |author-link=Humphrey Carpenter |url=https://archive.org/details/inklingscslewisj00carp |title=The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-395-27628-0 |location=Boston |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Tolkien the Medievalist |publisher=Routledge |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-415-28944-3 |editor-last=Chance |editor-first=Jane |editor-link=Jane Chance |location=London, New York |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Tolkien and the Invention of Myth, a Reader |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-8131-2301-1 |editor-last=Chance |editor-first=Jane |editor-mask=3 |location=Louisville |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Cilli |first1=Oronzo |last2=Shippey |first2=Tom |author-link2=Tom Shippey |title=Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist |publisher=Luna Press |year=2019 |isbn=978-1-911143-67-3 |location=[[Edinburgh]] |oclc=1099568978 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Cilli |first1=Oronzo |last2=Smith |first2=Arden R. |author2-link=Arden R. Smith |last3=Wynne |first3=Patrick H. |last4=Garth |first4=John |author4-link=John Garth (author) |title=J. R. R. Tolkien the Esperantist: Before the Arrival of Bilbo Baggins |publisher=Cafagna |year=2017 |isbn=978-88-96906-33-0 |location=Barletta |oclc=1020852373 |ref=none}}
* {{cite journal |last=Costabile |first=Giovanni Carmine |title=Bilbo Baggins and the Forty Thieves The Reworking of Folktale Motifs in The Hobbit (and The Lord of the Rings) |journal=[[Mythlore]] |date=2018 |volume=36 |issue=2 (132) |pages=89–104 |oclc=8513422873 |url=https://dc.swosu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1916&context=mythlore |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Croft |first=Janet Brennan |author-link=Janet Brennan Croft |title=War and the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien |publisher=Praegar Publishers |year=2004 |isbn=0-313-32592-8 |location=Westport |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Curry |first=Patrick |author-link=Patrick Curry |title=Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-618-47885-9 |location=Boston |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |editor-last=Drout |editor-first=Michael D. C. |editor-link=Michael D. C. Drout |title=The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment |title-link=The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment |publisher=[[Routledge]] |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-415-96942-0 |location=New York City |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Duriez |first=Colin |author-link=Colin Duriez |title=Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship |publisher=HiddenSpring |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-58768-026-7 |location=Mahwah, New Jersey |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Duriez |first1=Colin |author-link=Colin Duriez |title=The Inklings Handbook: The Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield, and Their Friends |last2=Porter |first2=David |publisher=Azure |year=2001 |isbn=978-1-902694-13-9 |location=London |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Flieger |first=Verlyn |author-link=Verlyn Flieger |title=Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World |title-link=Splintered Light |publisher=[[Kent State University Press]] |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-87338-744-6 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=[[Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth]] |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-313-30530-6 |editor1-last=Flieger |editor1-first=Verlyn |editor1-link=Verlyn Flieger |editor2-last=Hostetter |editor2-first=Carl F. |editor2-link=Carl F. Hostetter |location=Westport, [[Connecticut|CT]] |id=DDC 823.912 LC PR6039 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Fonstad |first=Karen Wynn |author-link=Karen Wynn Fonstad |title=The Atlas of Middle-earth |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|Houghton Mifflin]] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-618-12699-6 |location=Boston |url=https://archive.org/details/atlasofmiddleear0000fons |url-access=registration |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Foster |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Foster (author) |title=[[The Complete Guide to Middle-earth]] |publisher=Del Rey |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-345-44976-4 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Fredrick |first1=Candice |title=Woman among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams |last2=McBride |first2=Sam |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-313-31245-8 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Gilliver |first1=Peter |author-link=Peter Gilliver |author-link3=Edmund Weiner |title=The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary |title-link=The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary |last2=Marshall |first2=Jeremy |last3=Weiner |first3=Edmund |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-19-861069-4 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Glyer |first=Diana Pavlac |title=The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community |publisher=Kent State University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-87338-890-0 |location=Kent, Ohio |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Grant |first=Patrick |title=Six Modern Authors and Problems of Belief |publisher=MacMillan |year=1979 |isbn=978-0-333-26340-2 |chapter=Belief in Fantasy: J. R. R. Tolkien's ''Lord of the Rings'' |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Haber |first=Karen |url=https://archive.org/details/meditationsonmid00habe |title=Meditations on Middle-earth: New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien |publisher=St. Martin's Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-312-27536-5 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |title=Tolkien and Politics |publisher=Third Way Publications |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-9544788-2-7 |editor-last=Harrington |editor-first=Patrick |location=London, England |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Stuart D. |author1-link=Stuart D. Lee |last2=Solopova |first2=Elizabeth |author-link2=Elizabeth Solopova |title=The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien |title-link=The Keys of Middle-earth |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2005 |isbn=978-1-4039-4671-3 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Pearce |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Pearce |title=Tolkien: Man and Myth |publisher=HarperCollins |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-00-274018-0 |location=London |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Perry |first=Michael |title=Untangling Tolkien: A Chronology and Commentary for The Lord of the Rings |publisher=Inkling Books |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-58742-019-1 |location=Seattle |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Ready |first=William |title=Understanding Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings |publisher=Paperback Library |year=1968 |location=New York |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Rorabeck |first=Robert |title=Tolkien's Heroic Quest |publisher=Crescent Moon |year=2008 |isbn=978-1-86171-239-4 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Scull |first1=Christina |title=The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide |title-link=The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide |last2=Hammond |first2=Wayne G. |author-link=Christina Scull |author-link2=Wayne G. Hammond |publisher=HarperCollins |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-00-821454-8 |edition=Revised and expanded |location=London |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Shippey |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Shippey |title=[[J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century]] |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-618-12764-1 |location=Boston, New York |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Strachey |first=Barbara |title=Journeys of Frodo: an Atlas of The Lord of the Rings |title-link=Journeys of Frodo |publisher=Allen & Unwin |year=1981 |isbn=978-0-04-912016-7 |location=London, Boston |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=Tyler |first=J. E. A. |author-link=Tony Tyler |url=https://archive.org/details/tolkiencompanion00jeat |title=The Tolkien Companion |publisher=Gramercy |year=1976 |isbn=978-0-517-14648-4 |location=New York |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last=White |first=Michael |title=Tolkien: A Biography |publisher=New American Library |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-451-21242-9 |ref=none}}
* {{cite book |last1=Zaleski |first1=Philip |title=The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams |last2=Zaleski |first2=Carol |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2016 |isbn=978-0-374-53625-1 |ref=none}}
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