Richard C. West: A Checklist

Books:

Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist

Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1970

Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1981 [Revised eition]

[Based on earlier work published as "An Annotated Bibliography of Tolkien Criticism" in Orcrist, no. 1 (1966-67): 52-91; Supplement One in Orcrist, no. 2 (1967-68): 40-54; Supplement Two in Orcrist, no. 3 (co-published as Tolkien Journal, 4 no. 1; whole no. 11; 1969): 22-23; Supplement Three in Orcrist, no. 5 (co-published as Tolkien Journal, 4 no. 3; whole no. 14; 1970-71): 14-31. Material from the first two issues of Orcrist was revised and published as "An Annotated Bibliography of Tolkien Criticism," Extrapolation 10 no. 1 (December 1968): 17-45. A highly selective supplement is "A Tolkien Checklist: Selected Criticism 1981-2004."]

Tolkien-Related Critical Articles And Reviews:

[untitled], Christian Scholar's Review 6 (1977): 352-353.

[Review of Tolkien and The Silmarillion (1976) by Clyde S. Kilby.]

[untitled], Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 9 no. 3 (1998): 247-250.

[Review of A Question of Time (1997) by Verlyn Flieger.]

[untitled], Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review 21 (2004): 114-116.

[Review of The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition (2002), ed. Douglas A. Anderson.]

"'And She Named Her Own Name': Being True to One's Word in Tolkien's Middle-earth," Tolkien Studies 2 (2005): 1-10.

"Contemporary Medieval Authors," Orcrist, no. 3 (co-published as Tolkien Journal, 4 no. 1; whole no. 11; 1969): 9-10, 15.

[On T. H. White, C. S. Lewis, and Tolkien.]

"The Critics, and Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis," Orcrist, no. 5 (co-published as Tolkien Journal 4 no. 3; whole no. 14; 1970-71): 4-9

[Reviews of The Tolkien Relation (1968) by William Ready; Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings (1969) by Lin Carter; Good News from Tolkien's Middle Earth [sic] (1970), by Gracia Fay Ellwood; Tolkien and the Critics (1968), ed. Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo; Shadows of Imagination (1969) ed. Mark R. Hillegas; J. R. R. Tolkien (1969) by Catherine R. Stimpson; and several studies of C. S. Lewis.]

"Her Choice Was Made and Her Doom Appointed: Tragedy and Divine Comedy in the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen." In [the so far untitled Proceedings of the 2004 Marquette Tolkien Conference], ed. Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, [forthcoming 2005].

"The Interlace and Professor Tolkien: Medieval Narrative Technique in The Lord of the Rings," Orcrist, no. 1 (1966-67): 26-49.

[Revised, but omitting the appendices, as "The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings," see below.]

"The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings," in A Tolkien Compass, ed. Jared Lodbell. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1975: 77-94. New York: Ballantine, 1980: 82-102. Chicago and LaSalle: Open Court, 2002: 75-91.

[A revision, omitting the appendices, of "The Interlace and Professor Tolkien: Medieval Narrative Technique in The Lord of the Rings," see above.]

"Progress Report on the Variorum Tolkien," Orcrist, no. 4 (co-published as Tolkien Journal, 4 no. 3; whole no. 13; 1969-70): 6-7. [Notes about perusing the Tolkien Papers in the Archives of Marquette University.]

"Real-World Myth in a Secondary World: Mythological Aspects in the Story of Beren and Lúthien." In Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. Jane Chance. London and New York: Routledge, 2003: 259-267.

"Setting the Rocket Off in Story: The Kalevala as the Germ of Tolkien's Legendarium." In Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader, ed. Jane Chance. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2004: 285-294.

"The Status of Tolkien Scholarship," Tolkien Journal 15 (Summer 1972): 21.

"A Tolkien Checklist: Selected Criticism 1981-2004," Modern Fiction Studies 50, no. 4 (2004): 1015-1028.

"Tolkien in the Letters of C. S. Lewis," Orcrist, no. 1 (1966-67): 2-16.

"Túrin's Ofermod: An Old English Theme in the Development of the Story of...