Wayne and Christina


List of Topics in
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (2006)
Vol. 2: Reader’s Guide

by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond

[Titles of works beginning ‘Of’ are alphabetized by the following word.]

A
Abercrombie, Lascelles 1
Ace Books controversy 1
Acocks Green (Warwickshire) 7
Acta Senatus 8
Adaptations 8
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil 23
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book 25
Ae Adar Nín: The Lord’s Prayer in Sindarin 28
Ainulindalë 28
Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor 33
Alcar mi Tarmenel na Erun: The Gloria in Excelsis Deo in Quenya 34
Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner’s Wife 34
Aldershot (Hampshire) 37
Allegory 37
Aman 41
Ambarkanta: The Shape of the World 42
‘Analysis of fragments of other languages found in The Lord of the Rings’43
Ancrene Riwle 44
Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad 49
Annals of Beleriand 49
Annals of Valinor 51
Appearance 52
An Application for the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon
     in the University of Oxford by J.R.R. Tolkien, Professor of the English Language
     in the University of Leeds, June 25, 1925
53
Art 53
Arthur and the Matter of Britain 56
Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth 60
Atlantis 66
Attacks of Taste 69
Auden, Wystan Hugh 69
‘Of Aulë and Yavanna’ 71

B
Barfield, Arthur Owen 72
Barnsley, Thomas Kenneth 74
Barnt Green (Worcestershire) 75
Barrowclough, Sidney 75
The Battle of the Eastern Field 75
The Battles of the Fords of Isen 76
Baynes, Pauline Diana 76
Bedford (Bedfordshire) 77
‘Of the Beginning of Days’ 78
‘Of Beleriand and Its Realms’ 82
Belgium 82
Bennett, Henry Stanley 83
Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter 83
Beowulf 84
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics 86
‘Of Beren and Lúthien’ 93
Berkshire 104
Bibliographies 104
The Bidding of the Minstrel, from the Lay of Eärendel 106
Bilbo’s Last Song (at the Grey Havens) 107
Biographies 108
Birmingham and environs 115
Birmingham Oratory 117
Blackwell, Basil Henry 118
Bliss, Alan Joseph 118
Bombadil Goes Boating 119
The Book of Lost Tales 120
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One 136
The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two 137
Bournemouth (Hampshire) 137
Bradley, Henry 138
Braunholtz, Gustav Ernst Karl 139
Brett-Smith, Herbert Francis Brett 139
Brewerton, George 140
Brogan, Denis Hugh Vercingetorix 140
Brookes-Smith family 141
Bryson, John Norman 142
Burchfield, Robert William 142

C
Calligraphy 143
Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) 144
Campbell, Alistair 145
Campbell, Ignatius Roy Dunnachie 146
Carr, Charlie 147
Carter, Douglas 147
Cat 147
Cecil, Edward Christian David Gascoyne 147
Celtic influences 148
Chambers, Raymond Wilson 152
Chandler, Pamela 153
Chaucer, Geoffrey 153
Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve’s Tale 156
Cheddar Gorge and Caves (Somerset) 157
Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) 157
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith 158
Childe, Wilfred Rowland Mary 160
Children 160
The Children of Húrin [= The Lay of the Children of Húrin] 167
Círdan 171
Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan 172
The City of the Gods 173         
Classical influences 173
The Clerke’s Compleinte 176
Clevedon (Somerset) 177
Coghill, Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer 177
Collecting and sales 178
‘Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor’ 179
‘Of the Coming of Men into the West’ 184
The Converse of Manwë and Eru 188
Cornwall 189
Corrected Names of Chief Valar 190
Craigie, William Alexander 190
The Creatures of the Earth 191
Criticism 191
Cromer (Norfolk) 199
Cuivienyarna 199
Cullis, Colin 199

D
Dagnall, Margery Kathleen Mary, known as Susan 200
Dangweth Pengoloð 200
Darbishire, Helen 201
D’Arcy, Martin Cyril 201
D’Ardenne, Simonne Rosalie Thérèse Odile 202
‘Of the Darkening of Valinor’ 204
Davis, Norman 207
Dawkins, Richard MacGillivray 208
Day, Mabel 208
A Description of the Island of Númenor 208
The Devil’s Coach-horses 209
The Disaster of the Gladden Fields 209
Disney Studio 210
Dobson, Eric John 211
Domestic duties 211
Doworst 214
The Dragon’s Visit 214
Dragons 215
Drama 222
The Drowning of Anadûnê 228
Dundas-Grant, James Harold 229
Of Dwarves and Men 229
Dyson, Henry Victor Dyson 231

E
Éalá Éarendel Engla Beorhtast 233
Earendel at the Helm 234
‘Early Chart of Names’ 234
‘Early Noldorin Grammar’ 235
‘Early Qenya Pronouns’ 235
Earp, Thomas Wade 235
Eddison, Eric Rucker 236
‘Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië’ 237
Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals 242
‘Elvish Reincarnation’ 243
Elvish Song in Rivendell 243
Emery, Augustine 244
The End of the Third Age: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part IV 244
England 244
English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the
     Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday
248
English and Welsh 248
English language 251
‘English–Qenya Dictionary’ 252
Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo 252
Of the Ents and the Eagles 252
Environment 253
Eriol and Ælfwine 258
Errantry 262
Escape 264
Etymologies 266
Eucatastrophe 267
An Evening in Tavrobel 268
Everett, Dorothy 269
Examinations 269

F
Fairford (Gloucestershire) 272
Fairy-stories 272
The Fall 280
The Fall of Númenor 283
Fandom 284
Farmer Giles of Ham 288
Farnell, Lewis Richard 294
Farrer, Katharine Dorothy 295
Fastitocalon 295
The ‘Father Christmas’ letters 297
‘Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor’ 300
‘Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad’ 303
Filey (Yorkshire) 307
Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode 308
Firth, Charles Harding 312
The Five Wizards 312
Fletcher, Ronald Frank William 313
‘Flight of the Gnomes’ 313
The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 313
‘Of the Flight of the Noldor’ 314
Folkestone (Kent) 320
Food and drink 320
For W.H.A. 321
A Fourteenth-Century Romance 321
Fox, Adam 322
France 322
Fraser, John 323
Free will and Fate 324
From the Many-Willow’d Margin of the Immemorial Thames 333

G
Gale, St Teresa 333
Gardner, Helen Louise 334
Gedling (Nottinghamshire) 334
‘Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh’ 335
Gilson, Robert Cary 335
Gilson, Robert Quilter 336
Glip 337
Glorfindel 337
‘The Gnomes Come to the Great Lands’ 338
Gnomish Grammar 338
Gnomish Lexicon 339
Goblin Feet 340
Gollins, Annie 341
Good and Evil 341
Gordon, Eric Valentine 346
Gordon, George Stuart 347
Grahame, Kenneth 350
Great Haywood (Staffordshire) 351
Green, Roger Gilbert Lancelyn 352
The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel 353
Griffiths, Mary Elaine 353
Grove, Jennie 354

H
Habbanan beneath the Stars 355
Haggard, Henry Rider 355
Halsbury, John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, Earl of 358
The Happy Mariners 359
Hardie, Colin Graham 360
Harrogate (Yorkshire) 360
Havard, Robert Emlyn 360
Health 361
The Heirs of Elendil 365
‘Heraldic Devices of Tol Erethrin’ 365
Hill, Margaret Joy 366
Historical and cultural influences 368
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn and of Amroth King of Lórien 372
The History of Middle-earth 378
The History of The Lord of the Rings 383
The Hoard 383
The Hobbit 384
Holy Maidenhood 405
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son 406
Hope and Despair 410
The Horns of Ylmir 415
Hove (Sussex) 416
The Hunt for the Ring 416

I
Illustration 418
Imram 423
Incledon family 424
‘Index of Names for The Lay of the Children of Húrin’ 425
The Inklings 425
Ireland, Republic of (Eire) 431
The Istari 432
Italy 434
‘Iþþlen’ in Sawles Warde 436

J
J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator 436
Jennings, Elizabeth Joan 436
The Jerusalem Bible 437
Jones, Gwyn 439

K
Kalevala 440
Katherine Group 446
Ker, Neil Ripley 447
King Edward’s School, Birmingham 447

L
Lancashire Fusiliers 451
Lang, Andrew 455
Languages 460
Languages, Invented 475
Lascelles, Mary Madge 482
The Last Ark 482
The Last Ship 483
Laws and Customs among the Eldar 483
The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun 486
‘Lay of Eärendel’ 487
Lay of Leithian 488
The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin 491
The Lays of Beleriand 492
Lea, Kathleen Marguerite 493
Leaf by Niggle 494
Leeds (Yorkshire) 498
Leeds, University of 499
Leeds University Verse, 1914–24 503
Of Lembas 503
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien 503
Lewis, Clive Staples 504
Lewis, Warren Hamilton 511
The Lhammas 512
Libraries and archives 513
Light 517
Light as Leaf on Lindentree 522
Lincoln (Lincolnshire) 523
The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor 523
The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva 523
London 524
The Lonely Isle 525
The Lord of the Rings 526
Loss 555
The Lost Road 558
The Lost Road and Other Writings 565
Lyme Regis (Dorset) 566

M
McCallum, Ronald Buchanan 566
MacDonald, George 567
McFarlane, Kenneth Bruce 571
Madlener, Josef 571
‘Of Maeglin’ 572
Of Maeglin: Sister-son of Turgon, King of Gondolin 575
Magic 575
Malvern (Worcestershire) 578
The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 579
The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late 581
MS. Bodley 34: A Re-Collation of a Collation 581
Masefield, John Edward 582
Matar and Tulir’ 582
Mathew, Anthony Gervase 582
Melkor Morgoth 583
‘Of Men’ 584
The Mewlips 585
Middle English ‘Losenger’ 586
A Middle English Vocabulary 586
Milford-on-Sea (Hampshire) 589
Mills, Stella Marie 590
Mr. Bliss 590
Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret 592
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays 593
Morgan, Francis Xavier 594
Morgoth’s Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One: The Legends of Aman 595
Morris, William 598
Mortality and Immortality 604
Murray, Robert Patrick Ruthven 614
Music 615
Mythopoeia 620

N
‘Name-list to The Fall of Gondolin’ 622
The Name ‘Nodens’ 622
The Nameless Land 623
Names 624
Names and Required Alterations 627
‘Names of the Valar’ 627
Napier, Arthur Sampson 627
Narn i Chîn Húrin 628
Narqelion 630
Nature 631
Neave, Emily Jane 637
Nesbit, Edith 638
Netherlands 640
A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District 640
The New Shadow 641
Newby, Percy Howard 642
Nichol Smith, David 643
Nieninque 643
‘Of the Noldor in Beleriand’ 644
‘Noldorin Dictionary’ 646
‘Noldorin Word-lists’ 646
Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings 647
A Northern Venture 649
Northernness 649
Notes on Motives in the Silmarillion 656
Notes on Óre 657
The Notion Club Papers 657
Númenor 665
Númenórean Linear Measures 679

O
Official Name List 680
The Old English Apollonius of Tyre 680
The Old English Exodus 681
Oliphaunt 682
On Fairy-Stories 683
Once upon a Time 689
Onions, Charles Talbut 689
Orcs 690
Otley (Yorkshire) 693
‘Otsan and Kainendan’ 693
Over Old Hills and Far Away 693
Oxford and environs 693
Oxford, University of 713
Oxford English Dictionary 725
Oxford English Monographs 727
Oxford English School 728
The Oxford English School 744
Oxford Letter 746

P
The Palantíri 746
Payton, Ralph S. 747
Payton, Wilfrid Hugh 747
Pearl 747
The Peoples of Middle-earth 753
Perry-the-Winkle 754
Philology 754
Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien 760
Pity and Mercy 760
Poems and Stories 765
The Poetic and Mythologic Words of Eldarissa 765
Poetry 766
Political thought 771
Poole (Dorset) 775
Possessiveness 776
Power 778
Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of ‘Beowulf’ 782
Prejudice and Racism 785
Princess Mee 794
The Princess Ní 794
The Problem of Ros 795
Progress in Bimble Town 795
Publishers 796

Q
Qenya: Descriptive Grammar of the Qenya Language 798
The Qenya Verb Forms 799
Qenyaqetsa 799
Quantock Hills (Somerset) 800
Quendi and Eldar 800
Quenta Noldorinwa 801
Quenta Silmarillion 802
‘Quenta Silmarillion’ 806
Quest 806
The Quest of Erebor 810

R
Raleigh, Walter Alexander 813
Ransome, Arthur Michell 813
Reade, Francis Vincent 814
Reading 814
Recordings 822
Recovery 824
Rednal (Worcestershire) 826
The Reeve’s Tale 826
Reincarnation of Elves 827
Religion 828
Research v. Literature 840
‘Of the Return of the Noldor’ 841
The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One 845
Reynolds, Richard William 847
Rice-Oxley, Leonard 848
Ridley, Maurice Roy 848
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age 849
The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor 852
The Road 854
The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle 855
Roverandom 858
‘Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin’ 861
‘Of the Ruin of Doriath’ 866

S
Salu, Mary Bertha 873
Sarehole (Warwickshire) 873
Sauron Defeated: The End of the Third Age (The History of The Lord of the Rings,
     Part Four); The Notion Club Papers and The Drowning of Anadûnê
875
Sayer, George Sydney Benedict 876
Science 876
Scotland 878
The Sea 878
The Sea-Bell 881
A Secret Vice 882
Shadow-Bride 884
The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, The Ambarkanta and the
     Annals Together with the Earliest ‘Silmarillion’ and the First Map
884
The Shibboleth of Fëanor 885
The Shores of Faery 887
‘Sí Qente Feanor’ 888
Sidmouth (Devon) 888
Sigelwara Land 889
‘The Silmarillion’ 890
The Silmarillion 906
‘Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor’ 917
Simpson, Percy 920
‘Of the Sindar’ 921
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 924
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo 930
Sir Orfeo 933
Sisam, Kenneth 935
Sketch of the Mythology 936
Smith, Albert Hugh 937
Smith, Geoffrey Bache 938
Smith of Wootton Major 942
Smithers, Geoffrey Victor 950
Smoking 951
Societies and clubs 951
Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography 967
A Song of Aryador 967
Songs for the Philologists 967
Source-hunting 969
South Africa 970
Spiders 973
Sports 976
Staffordshire 977
Stevens, Courtenay Edward 980
Stewart, John Innes Mackintosh 980
The Stone Troll 981
Stonyhurst (Lancashire) 981
Sub-creation 982
Suffield family 984
‘Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor’ 986
Sun The Trees Silmarils 990
Swann, Donald Ibrahim 990
Switzerland 992
‘Synopsis of Pengoloð’s Eldarinwe Leperi are Notessi’ 995

T
Tal-Elmar 995
The Tale of Years 996
Tales and Songs of Bimble Bay 997
Tales from the Perilous Realm 998
T.C.B.S. 998
‘Of Thingol and Melian’ 1004
Thompson, William Meredith 1006
Tidworth (Wiltshire) 1007
Tinfang Warble 1007
Tolkien family 1008
Tolkien, Arthur Reuel 1009
Tolkien, Christopher Reuel 1010
Tolkien, Edith Mary 1012
Tolkien, Hilary Arthur Reuel 1016
Tolkien, John Francis Reuel 1017
Tolkien, Mabel 1018
Tolkien, Michael Hilary Reuel 1020
Tolkien, Priscilla Mary Reuel 1021
Tolkien on Tolkien 1022
The Tolkien Reader 1024
The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow 1024
Translations 1025
Travel and transport 1038
The Treason of Isengard: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Two 1042
Tree and Leaf 1043
The Trees of Kortirion 1044
Trought, Vincent 1045
Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin 1046
‘Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin’ 1047
‘Of Túrin Turambar’ 1053
Turlin and the Exiles of Gondolin 1063
Turville-Petre, Edward Oswald Gabriel 1064
Turville-Petre, Joan Elizabeth 1064

U
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth 1065
Unwin, Rayner Stephens 1067
Unwin, Stanley 1069

V
Valaquenta 1071
Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford 1074
‘Variation D/L in Common Eldarin’ 1076
‘Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath’ 1076

W
Wade-Gery, Henry Theodore 1082
Wain, John Barrington 1083
Waldman, Milton 1084
Wales 1085
The Wanderings of Húrin 1085
War 1089
The War of the Jewels: The Later Silmarillion, Part Two:
     The Legends of Beleriand
1097
The War of the Ring: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Three 1097
Wardale, Edith Elizabeth 1098
Warwick (Warwickshire) 1099
West Midlands 1099
Weston-super-Mare (Somerset) 1101
Whitby (Yorkshire)1101
Whitelock, Dorothy 1101
Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett 1102
Williams, Charles Walter Stansby 1102
Wilson, Frank Percy 1105
Wiseman, Christopher Luke 1105
Women and marriage 1107
‘Words of Joy’ 1123
Wrenn, Charles Leslie 1123
Wright, Joseph 1125
Writing systems 1126
Wyke-Smith, Edward Augustine 1130
Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy 1132

XYZ
The Year’s Work in English Studies 1133
Yorkshire 1134

 

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