Selected Publications
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Essay-article on The History of Middle-earth. Seven 12 (1995).
J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator. London: HarperCollins; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. We later adapted and revised our chapter on The Silmarillion as a note in the 2022 illustrated edition of that work.
‘Caring for Your Tolkien Collection’. The Tolkien Collector 18 (June 1998).
‘The Making of J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator’. Proceedings of Unquendor’s Third Lustrum Conference, Held in Delft, 25 May 1996 (Lembas-extra). Leiden: Unquendor, 1998.
Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. London: HarperCollins; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Farmer Giles of Ham by J.R.R. Tolkien. 50th anniversary edition. Ed. by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. London: HarperCollins; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. Pocket edition, with corrections, London: HarperCollins, 2012.
‘J.R.R. Tolkien: The Achievement of His Literary Life’. Mythlore 22, no. 3, whole no. [85] (Winter 1999). Reprint forthcoming in Myth Understandings: Remarks from Mythcon Guests of Honor, 1970–2019.
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien. London: HarperCollins, 1999; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. Includes new, expanded index by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond.
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. 50th anniversary edition. London: HarperCollins; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Ed. with a note by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. From late 2005, this edition also contains our further emendations and new, enlarged index.
The Lord of the Rings. Text of presentation pack booklet for Tolkien commemorative stamps. Royal Mail, February 2004.
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion. London: HarperCollins; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Revised edition, London: HarperCollins, 2008. Third edition, London: HarperCollins, 2014.
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.
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide. London: HarperCollins; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. Two volumes, Chronology and Reader’s Guide, published as a boxed set and separately. Second edition, London: HarperCollins, 2017. Three volumes. A portion of our article on The Hobbit was reprinted in connection with the 2018 facsimile edition of that book.
‘Truth or Consequences?: A Cautionary Tale of Tolkien Studies’. The Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza Scholars Forum website. January 2010.
The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien. London: HarperCollins, 2011; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012. We later adapted our introduction to this book as a note in the 2023 illustrated edition of The Hobbit.
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book by J.R.R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. London: HarperCollins, 2014.
The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. London: HarperCollins; Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015. Our introduction was adapted as a prefatory note on Tolkien’s art in the 2021 illustrated edition of The Lord of the Rings.
Review of José Manuel Ferrández Bru, "Uncle Curro": J.R.R. Tolkien's Spanish Connection, Journal of Tolkien Research 6, no. 1 (2018), article 8.
‘Tolkien’s Visual Art’. Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth. [Written and] ed. by Catherine McIlwaine. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2018.
Review of Oronzo Cilli, Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist. Journal of Tolkien Research 7, no. 1 (2019), article 10.
‘Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020)’. Children’s Books History Society Newsletter 126 (April 2020). Reprinted as ‘Christopher Tolkien’ in The Book Collector 70, no. 1 (Spring 2021).
‘Christopher Tolkien, 1924–2020’. Tolkien Studies 17 (2020).
Review of Nancy Bunting and Seamus Hamill-Keays, The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Inspiration. Journal of Tolkien Research, 14, no. 2 (2022), article 1.
Review of M.S. Monsch, Switzerland in Tolkien’s Middle-earth: In the Footsteps of His Adventurous Summer Journey in 1911, Journal of Tolkien Research, 14, no. 2 (2022), article 2
‘“I Wisely Started with a Map”: J.R.R. Tolkien as Cartographer’. The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien. Ed. by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2022.
‘Addenda to “J.R.R. Tolkien: A Bibliography”’. Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine Notes 34, no. 3 (July–September 1977).
The Samuel Butler Newsletter, 1980–95. Editor and primary writer.
The Graphic Art of C.B. Falls: An Introduction. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Chapin Library, 1982.
‘John Bellairs: An Appreciation and a Checklist’. The XVIIIth Mythopoeic Conference [program book]. Milwaukee: Mythopoeic Society, 1987.
‘All the Comforts: The Image of Home in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings’. Mythlore 14, no. 1, whole no. 51 (Autumn 1987).
Abstracts of Tolkien studies in ‘An Inklings Bibliography’. Mythlore 15, no. 3, whole no. 57 (Spring 1989)–22, no. 3, whole no. [85] (Winter 1999), most issues.
‘The Trade Bindings of C.B. Falls’. Trade Bindings Research Newsletter 4 (March 1992).
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. With the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1993. Addenda and corrigenda have appeared in The Tolkien Collector.
‘Fair Dealing’. The Tolkien Collector 5 (November 1993).
The Kaldewey Press of Poestenkill, New York. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Chapin Library, 1993.
‘The Critical Response to Tolkien’s Fiction’. Proceedings of the 1992 Tolkien Centenary Conference. Ed. by Patricia Reynolds and Glen H. GoodKnight. Milton Keynes: The Tolkien Society; Altadena, California: The Mythopoeic Society, 1995.
‘Too Many Books – and Never Enough’. The Tolkien Collector 10 (July 1995).
‘Seraphim, Cherubim, and Virtual Unicorns: Order and Being in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time Quartet’. Mythlore 20, no. 4, whole no. 78 (Winter 1995).
‘Pauline Baynes’. British Children’s Writers, 1914–1960. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 160. Ed. by Donald R. Hettinga and Gary D. Schmidt. Detroit: Gale Research, 1996.
C.S. Lewis [and] Owen Barfield: A Souvenir Book for the Centenary Celebration Held at Wheaton, Illinois, July 15–20, 1998 by the Mythopoeic Society. Designer, editor, and contributor (‘A C.S. Lewis Chronology’, adapted from work by Lyle W. Dorsett; ‘An Owen Barfield Chronology’; ‘A Selective Barfield Secondary Bibliography’).
‘A Ransome Bibliographer at Work’. Talks Given at the Literary Weekend, October 1997. Kendal: Arthur Ransome Society, 1998.
‘The Tolkien Collector and the Internet’. The Tolkien Collector 21 (September 1999).
‘“A Continuing and Evolving Creation”: Distractions in the Later History of Middle-earth’. Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth. Ed. by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000.
‘Should We Be Sorry for the Might-Have-Beens?’ Talks Given at the Literary Weekend, September 1999. Kendal: Arthur Ransome Society, 2000.
Arthur Ransome: A Bibliography. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies; New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000.
‘Whose Lord of the Rings Is It, Anyway?’ Canadian C.S. Lewis Journal 97 (Spring 2000).
Expressing Abstraction: Writings on Art for The Nation by S. Lane Faison, Jr. Williamstown, Massachusetts: Williams College, 2006. Designer, uncredited editor.
‘Special Collections in the Service of Tolkien Studies’. 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.
‘The Culinary Art of Pauline Baynes’. Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 9, no. 4 (Fall 2009).
The Heavens Revealed. Introduction, bibliographical checklist, editor, and designer of website concerned with classic works in astronomy. November 2010.
‘Rosie and the “Nutshell” Kids’. Children's Books History Society Newsletter 105 (March 2013).
‘Submarine Ships and Submarine Cities’. Mixed Moss: The Journal of the Arthur Ransome Society (2021), pp. 11–12.
‘Tolkien and His Publishers’. Forthcoming in the proceedings of the 2019 Tolkien Society conference, Birmingham.
‘A Preliminary Study of Variations in Editions of The Lord of the Rings’. Beyond Bree, April 1985; August 1985.
‘The Fairy Tale Tradition’. Mallorn 23 (Summer 1986).
‘Differences in Picture Reproduction between British and American Editions [of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works]’. Beyond Bree, May 1987.
‘The Hobbit Considered in Relation to Children’s Literature Contemporary with Its Writing and Publication’. Mythlore 14, no. 2, whole no. 52 (Winter 1987).
‘The Publishing History of Farmer Giles of Ham’. Amon Hen 98 (July 1989).
‘On Reading and Re-reading The Lord of the Rings’. Mallorn 27 (September 1990).
Appendix on Adam drawings for Fredericks Place. The Mercers’ Hall by Jean Imray. London: London Topographical Society, 1991.
‘Dragons from Andrew Lang’s Retelling of Sigurd to Tolkien’s Chrysophylax’ and ‘Tom Bombadil and The Lord of the Rings’. Leaves from the Tree: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Shorter Fiction. London: Tolkien Society, 1991.
The Soane Hogarths. London: Trefoil Publications for Sir John Soane’s Museum, 1991. Second edition (revised by other hands), London: Sir John Soane’s Museum, 2007.
The Tolkien Collector, 1 (1992) to date. Editor and primary author.
‘Tolkien: The Great Storyteller’. British Philatelic Bulletin, Oct. 1992.
‘The Influence of Archaeology and History on Tolkien’s World.’ Scholarship & Fantasy: Proceedings of The Tolkien Phenomenon. Anglicana Turkuensia, no. 12. Ed. by K.J. Batterbee. Turku: University of Turku, 1993.
Catalogue entries. Soane: Connoisseur & Collector: A Selection of Drawings from Sir John Soane’s Collection. London: Sir John Soane’s Museum, 1995.
Catalogue entries. Buildings in Progress: Soane’s Views of Construction. London: The Soane Gallery, 1995.
‘Open Minds, Closed Minds in The Lord of the Rings’. Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference. Ed. by Patricia Reynolds & Glen H. GoodKnight. Milton Keynes: The Tolkien Society; Altadena, California: The Mythopoeic Society, 1995.
‘When the Collecting Has To Stop!’. The Tolkien Collector 13 (May 1996).
‘Signatures, Labels, and Values’. The Tolkien Collector 15 (February 1997).
‘The Development of Tolkien’s Legendarium: Some Threads in the History of Middle-earth’. Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth. Ed. by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000.
‘Sophisticated Tolkien or, The Integrity of the Book’. The Tolkien Collector 23 (June 2000).
‘Is the Internet Collectible?’ The Tolkien Collector 24 (January 2001).
‘What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?: Planning, Inspiration, and The Lord of the Rings’. 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.
‘Reflections on The Silmarillion and Arda Reconstructed’. Beyond Bree, August 2009.
‘“I Met a Lot of Things on the Way That Astonished Me”: Natural Growth in Writing The Lord of the Rings’. Forthcoming in the proceedings of the 2019 Tolkien Society conference, Birmingham.
‘Weekend Edition’. interview with Wayne and Christina about Tolkien’s Roverandom on National Public Radio (1998).
‘“I Met a Lot of Things on the Way That Astonished Me”: Natural Growth in Writing The Lord of the Rings’. recording of Christina’s 2019 Tolkien Society talk.
‘Tolkien and His Publishers’. recording of Wayne’s 2019 Tolkien Society talk.
interview with Christina and Wayne by the Deutsche Tolkien Gesellschaft (‘Tolkien Podcast’, 2019).
introduction by Wayne to the Chapin Library’s 2020 online July 4th program (in lieu of an in-person event due to the coronavirus).
interview with Wayne and Christina by Brazilian Tolkien enthusiasts (‘Tolkien Talk’, 2021).
Discontinued podcasts have been omitted from this list.