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Tom Shippey on J. R. R. Tolkien:

A Checklist

Books:

The Road to Middle-earth

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1982 [hardcover]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983 [hardcover]
London: Grafton, 1992 [trade paper, revised and expanded]
London: HarperCollins, 1997 [trade paper]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003 [trade paper; third revised edition]

J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

London: HarperCollins, 2000 [hardcover], 2001 [trade paper]
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001 [hardcover], 2002 [trade paper]

Reviews, Forewords and Journalism (including interviews):

"Blunt Belligerence." TLS, 26 November 1982, 1306.
[Review of Mr. Bliss (1982) by J. R. R. Tolkien]

"Defending Middle-earth." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 9 no. 3 (1998): 251-53.
[Review of Defending Middle-earth (1997) by Patrick Curry]

"A Feeling for Language." Christian History 22, no. 2 (May 2003): 14.

"The Foolhardy Philologist." TLS, 13 May 1977, 583.
[Review of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977) by Humphrey Carpenter]

"Foreword" to The People's Guide to J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Erica Challis, 13-15. San Diego: Cold Spring Press, 2003.

"Foreword" to A Tolkien Compass, edited by Jared Lobdell, vii-xi. Chicago: Open Court, 2002.

"An Interview with Tom Shippey," by Nils Ivar Agøy. Angerthas 20 (June 1987) and Angerthas 21 (October 1987); reprinted in Angerthas 31 (Angerthas in English 2; July 1992): 27-49.

"An Interview with Tom Shippey." Houghton Mifflin promotional [End Page 17] materials, May 2001. [Republished at: http://greenbooks.theonering.net/turgon/files/060101.html Accessed January 2004]

"An Interview with Tom Shippey." Questions and answers with Tom Shippey, posted at HarperCollins website, October 2001.
[http://www.tolkien.co.uk/jrrtolkien/interviews_shippey.asp Accessed January 2004]

"An Introduction to Elvish." Mallorn, no. 13 (1979): 7-10.
[Review of An Introduction to Elvish (1978), edited by Jim Allan]

"J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography." The Library, 6th series, 17 no. 1 (March 1995): 91-93.
[Review of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (1993) by Wayne G. Hammond with the assistance of Douglas A. Anderson]

"Not Worn Lightly." TLS, 9 January 2004, 18.
[Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King film by Peter Jackson]

"A Philologist in Purgatory." TLS, 28 August 1981, 975-76.
[Review of The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981), edited by Humphrey Carpenter]

"The Plot Unravels." TLS, 20 December 2002, 18.
[Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers film by Peter Jackson]

"Shot from the Canon." Chronicle of Higher Education, 7 September 2001.

"Silmarillion: The Oddest Tolkien Yet." Oxford Mail, 15 September 1977, 4.
[Review of The Silmarillion (1977) by J. R. R. Tolkien]

"Take Courage—Things May Not Be as Bad as They Seem." Daily Telegraph, 2 January 2003.

"Temptations for All Time." TLS, 21 December 2001, 16-17.
[Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film by Peter Jackson]

"Tolkien and Me." Posted at Borders.com, June 2001 [Offline, January 2004].

"Tolkien's Art." Notes and Queries 225 (n.s. v. 27 no. 6; December 1980): 570-572.
[Review of Tolkien's Art (1979) by Jane Chance Nitzsche]

"Tom Shippey's Favourite Books on J. R. R. Tolkien." Guardian Unlimited, December 2001 [http://books.guardian.co.uk/top10s/top10/0,6109,608925,00.html Accessed January 2004] [End Page 18]

"Why the Critics Must Recognize Lord of the Rings as a Classic." Daily Telegraph, 2 January 2002.

Critical Articles:

"Allegory Versus Bounce: Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major," with Verlyn Flieger. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 12, no. 2 (2001): 186-200.

"Commentary" and translation of "The Clerkes Compleinte" by J. R. R. Tolkien. Arda 1984 (1988): 3-8.

"Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings." In J.R.R. Tolkien: Scholar and Storyteller, edited by Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell, 286-316. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979.

"Goths and Huns: The Rediscovery of Northern Cultures in the Nineteenth Century." In The Medieval Legacy, edited by Andreas Haarder, 51-69. Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1982.

"Grimm, Grundtvig, Tolkien: Nationalisms and the Invention of Mythologies." In The Ways of Creative Mythologies: Imagined Worlds and Their Makers, vol. 1, edited by Maria Kuteeva, 7-17. Telford: Tolkien Society Press, 2000.

"Light-elves, Dark-elves and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem." Tolkien Studies 1 (2004): 1-15.

"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.

"Noblesse Oblige: Images of Class in Tolkien." Lembas Extra 93/94 (1994): 27-43.

"Orcs, Wraiths, Wights: Tolkien's Images of Evil." In J. R. R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth, edited by George Clark and Daniel Timmons, 183-198. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.

"The Other Road to Middle-earth: Jackson's Movie Trilogy." In Understanding "The Lord of the Rings," edited by Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming.

"Tolkien and Iceland: The Philology of Envy." Delivered at the Sigur_ur Nordal Institute, September 2002. [Posted at: http://www.nordals.hi.is/shippey.html. Accessed January 2004]

"Tolkien and the Gawain-Poet." Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary [End Page 19] Conference, edited by Patricia Reynolds and Glen H. GoodKnight, 213-219. Altadena: Mythopoeic Press, 1995. [Co-published issue of Mallorn no. 30 and Mythlore no. 80.]

"Tolkien and 'The Homecoming of Beohrtnoth.'" Leaves from the Tree: J. R. R. Tolkien's Shorter Fiction, edited anonymously, 5-16. London: Tolkien Society, 1991.

"Tolkien and the West Midlands: The Roots of Romance." Lembas Extra 1995 (1995): 5-22.

"Tolkien as a Post-War Writer." Scholarship & Fantasy: Proceedings of the Tolkien Phenomenon (1993), edited by K. J. Battarbee. Anglicana Turkuensia 12 (1993): 217-36. [Reprinted in Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, edited by Patricia Reynolds and Glen H. GoodKnight Altadena: Mythopoeic Press, 1995, 84-93.]

"Tolkien's Academic Reputation Now." Amon Hen 100 (1989): 18-22.

"Tom Shippey Speaks at the Tolkien Society Annual Dinner, Cambridge, April 23, 1983." In Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 1, edited by Helen Armstrong, 31-52. Swindon: The Tolkien Society, 1997. [Also headed: "... I Thought of the Incident of Zeebrugge, Which Nobody Wrote about at all..."]

"Tom Shippey Speaks at the Tolkien Society Annual Dinner, Norwich, April 13, 1991." In Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 2, edited by Helen Armstrong, 13-23. Swindon: The Tolkien Society, 1998.
[Also headed: "What Have These People Got in Common? One Thing ... They Had All Been Shot at."]

"Tom Shippey Speaks at the Tolkien Society Annual Dinner, York, April 19, 1980." Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees, vol. 1, edited by Helen Armstrong, 6-30. Swindon: The Tolkien Society, 1997.
[Also headed: "Inspiration and Invention, or, Where Tolkien Got Stuck"]

"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, edited by Donald Scragg and Carole Weinberg, 215-236. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

"The Versions of 'The Hoard.'" Lembas 100 (2001): 3-7.

"A Wose by any Other Name." Amon Hen 45 (1980): 8-9.



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