Charles Noad

Charles E. Noad (1947 - 2023Obituary: Charles Noad) was a literary reviewer and writer who in 1977 authored The Trees, the Jewels and the Rings: A Discursive Enquiry Into Things Little Known on Middle-earth, and has written frequently for the Tolkien Society's journal Amon Hen.
Since 1978, his reviews have been published of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, the entirety of The History of Middle-earth, Douglas Charles Kane's Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published SilmarillionIncluded in this thread from the Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza, compilations such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, Root and Branch: Approaches towards Understanding Tolkien, and The Monsters and the Critics and other essays.
He assisted in the formation of Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins' 2017 publication, A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages.
==Works==
*1977 - The Trees, the Jewels and the Rings: A Discursive Enquiry Into Things Little Known on Middle-earth
*1979 to 2016 - at least nineteen articles in the Amon Hen and Mallorn publications of the Tolkien Society
*1991 - "The Natures of Tom Bombadil: A Summary", in Leaves from the Tree
*1992 - "The Tolkien Society" (essay), in the temporary publication Tolkien Centenary Conference 1992
*1995 - "Frodo and His Spectre: Blakean Resonances in Tolkien", in Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
*2000 - "On the Construction of The Silmarillion", in Verlyn Flieger's Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
*2012 - "Fate and Freedom in Tolkien's World: Unresolvable Paradox?", in the Tolkien Society's collection Freedom, Fate and Choice in Middle-earth
==References==
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