Here we have recorded works cited in addenda and corrigenda for The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion or which we have consulted in writing additions and corrections, provided that they are not already listed among ‘Works Consulted’.
Works by J.R.R. Tolkien
Five Late Quenya Volitive Inscriptions. Ed. by Carl F. Hostetter. Vinyar Tengwar 49 (June 2007), pp. 38–58.
Quenya Verb Structure. Ed. with an introduction by Christopher Gilson. Parma Eldalamberon 22 (2015), pp. 79–170.
Some Contributions to Middle English Lexicography. Review of English Studies 1 (April 1925), pp. 210–15.
Works by Other Authors
Armstrong, Helen. Review of The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion. Amon Hen 199 (May 2006), pp. 24–5.
Burchfield, Robert. ‘The Treatment of Controversial Vocabulary in the Oxford English Dictionary’. Originally published in The Trademark Reporter 65, no. 4 (1975); reprinted in Unlocking the English Language (New York: Hill and Wang, 1989), pp. 83–108.
Children’s & Illustrated Books, Modern First Editions & Original Illustrations. Cirencester: Dominic Winter Auctions, 19 June 2025, lot 797.
https://dominicwinter.blob.core.windows.net/catalogue-pdf/DW19June25.pdf
Doughan, David. Review of The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion. Amon Hen 199 (May 2006), p. 23.
Dubs, Kathleen. ‘No Laughing Matter’. Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Kathleen Dubs and Janka Kaščákova. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. pp. 105–23.
Fimi, Dimitra. ‘Tracing a Source for the Mirror of Galadriel (in Tolkien’s Own Early Work): From The Book of Lost Tales to The Lord of the Rings’. A Kind of Elvish Craft (blog), 1 February 2026. https://dimitrafimi.substack.com/p/tracing-a-source-for-the-mirror-of
Flieger, Verlyn. ‘Poems by Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings’. In J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, ed. Michael D.C. Drout. New York: Routledge, 2006. pp. 522–32.
Fliss, William M., and Sarah C. Schaefer. J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript. Milwaukee: Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, 2022.
Garth, John. The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth. London: Frances Lincoln, 2020.
Gilliver, Peter M., Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Goering, Nelson. Comments on The Wanderer. Tolkien Society Facebook page, 3 September 2018.
—— ‘Old Mercian: From Beowulf to Tolkien’s Rohan’. In Kuijpers, Vink, and van Zon, Tolkien among Scholars (2016), pp. 105–17.
Gunn, Ian. ‘Eowyn, Elven-fair’. Thoughts on Tolkien (blog), 7 September 2025. https://thoughtsontolkien.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/eowyn-elven-fair/
Holmes, John R. ‘“The Departure of Boromir”: A Close Reading’. Critical Insights: The Lord of the Rings. Ed. by Robert C. Evans. Amenia, New York: Salem Press/Grey House Publishing, 2022. pp. 33–47.
—— ‘“Like Heathen Kings”: Religion as Palimpsest in Tolkien’s Fiction’. The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Paul E. Kerry. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011. pp. 119–44.
—— Tolkien’s Glee: A Reading of the Songs in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2025.
Honegger, Thomas. ‘The Rohirrim: “Anglo-Saxons on Horseback”? An Inquiry into Tolkien’s Use of Sources’. Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays. Ed. by Jason Fisher. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2011. pp. 116–32.
Johannesson, Nils-Lennart. ‘The Speech of the Individual and of the Community in The Lord of the Rings’. News from the Shire and Beyond: Studies on Tolkien. Ed. by Peter Buchs and Thomas Honegger. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 1997. pp. 11–47.
Kaščákova, Janka. ‘“It Snowed Food and Rained Drink” in The Lord of the Rings’. Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Kathleen Dubs and Janka Kaščákova. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. pp. 91–104.
Kilby, Clyde S., and Dick Plotz. ‘Many Meetings with Tolkien’. Niekas 19 (c. 1968), pp. 39–40.
Klinger, Judith. ‘Hidden Paths of Time: March 13th and the Riddles of Shelob’s Lair’. Tolkien and Modernity 2, ed. by Thomas Honegger and Frank Weinreich. [Zurich and Berne]: Walking Tree Publishers, 2006.
Kuijpers, Nathalie, Renée Vink, and Cécile van Zon, eds. Tolkien among Scholars. Leiden: Tolkien Genootschap Unquendor, 2016.
Lambengolmor Tolkien linguistics forum. The original Yahoo group site (tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/lambengolmor) is defunct, but messages can still be read on a mirror: https://tolklang.quettar.org/lambengolmor-mirror/.
Larsen, Kristine. ‘A Definitive Identification of Tolkien’s “Borgil”: An Astronomical and Literary Approach’. Tolkien Studies 2 (2005), pp. 161–70.
—— ‘Immeasurable Halls and Dreamlike Forms: Tracing the Caves of Cheddar Gorge throughout Tolkien’s Legendarium (and Beyond)’. Journal of Tolkien Research 22, issue 2, article 15 (2025). https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol22/iss2/15/
Lee, Stuart D. ‘Manuscripts: Use, and Using’. A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Stuart D. Lee. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. pp. 56–76.
——, and Elizabeth Solopova. The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien. Houndmills, Basingtoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Leibiger, Carol A. ‘Charms’. J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. Ed. by Michael D.C. Drout. New York: Routledge, 2006. pp. 91–3.
McIlwaine, Catherine. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2018.
—— Tolkien Treasures. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2018.
Medcalf, Stephen. ‘“The Language Learned of Elves”: Owen Barfield, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings’. Seven 16 (1999), pp. 31–53.
Morris, William. The Roots of the Mountains. North Hollywood, California: Newcastle Publishing Co., 1979. Facsimile of the 1896 Longmans, Green printing.
Nicholas, Angela P. Aragorn: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Undervalued Hero. Gamlingay, Sandy, Bedfordshire: Authors OnLine/Bright Pen, 2012.
Ordway, Holly. Tolkien’s Modern Reading: Middle-earth beyond the Middle Ages. Park Ridge, Illinois: Word on Fire Academic, 2021.
Parker, Eleanor. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year. London: Reaktion Books, 2022.
Pettit, Edward. ‘J.R.R. Tolkien’s Use of an Old English Charm’. Mallorn 40 (November 2002), pp. 39–44.
Phelpstead, Carl. Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011.
Porck, Thijs. ‘Medieval Animals in Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Old English and Middle English Physiologus’. Figurations animalières á travers les textes et l’image en Europe. Ed. by A. van de Haar and A.E. Schulte Nordholt. Leiden: Brill, 2022. pp. 266–80.
—— ‘New Roads and Secret Gates, Waiting around the Corner: Investigating Tolkien’s Other Anglo-Saxon Sources’. In Kuijpers, Vink, and van Zon, Tolkien among Scholars (2016), pp. 49–64.
Rateliff, John D. The History of the Hobbit. London: HarperCollins, 2007. 2 vols.: Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-End.
Reading Room forum. http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?forum=9
Riga, Frank P. ‘Gandalf and Merlin: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Adoption and Transformation of a Literary Tradition’. Mythlore 27, nos. 1/2, whole nos. 103/104 (Fall/Winter 2008), pp. 21–44.
Scandinavian Folk-Lore: Illustrations of the Traditional Beliefs of the Northern Peoples. Selected and translated by William A. Craigie. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1896.
Shippey, Tom. ‘History in Words: Tolkien’s Ruling Passion’. The Lord of the Rings, 1954–2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder. Ed. by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006. pp. 25–39.
Smith, Paul J. ‘French Connections in Middle-earth: The Medieval Legacy’. In Kuijpers, Vink, and van Zon, Tolkien among Scholars (2016), pp. 119–35.
Spaeth, J. Duncan. Old English Poetry: Translations into Alliterative Verse. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1921.
Stephen, Elizabeth M. Hobbit to Hero: The Making of Tolkien’s King. Moreton-in-Marsh: ADC Publications, 2012.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. London: HarperCollins, 2024.
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