Secondary literature

Secondary literature, usually equal to Tolkien study, is literature about J.R.R. Tolkien, his academic work, or his Middle-earth legendarium, written by someone outside the Tolkien family. This literature includes reference works, atlases, thorough examinations, essay collections, biographical, art books, and recipe books. This category excludes, however, literature directly concerning adaptations of Tolkien's works.
Apart from numerous, singular books by various professors, linguists, Medieval scholars, et cetera, secondary literature also includes many compilative series, such as Tolkien Studies, the Mallorn and Amon Hen journals, the Cormarë Series, Journal of Tolkien Research, and Peter Roe Memorial Series, each of whose installments feature essays or reviews by different Tolkien enthusiasts, on a spectrum from scholars to common fans.
See also Category:Secondary literature.
Secondary literature is a large portion of the outstanding collection of Pieter Collier of TolkienLibrary.com. The book I Am in Fact a Hobbit (2003) by Perry Bramlett is one of few English-language works including a bibliography of such literature.
==Terminology==
Secondary literature is a contrast to "primary literature", which encompasses authorized works that solely or mainly present J.R.R. Tolkien's own material, such as his novels, The History of Middle-earth, publications of his lectures and Medieval writings, and The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. Secondary literature may or may not be directly authorized by or connected to the Tolkien Estate.
Most secondary literature, of any format, falls under Tolkien study or Tolkien criticism, sometimes called Tolkienologyhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tolkienology or Tolkien research. The most involved kind of secondary literature is Tolkien scholarship, in which a Tolkien expert draws intensely on their own academic or professional experience to examine Tolkien's life or works with particular focus.
==Examples==
A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkiened. by Stuart D. Lee (2014) 	The Atlas of Middle-earthby Karen Wynn Fonstad
(1981) 	J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biographyby Humphrey Carpenter
(1977) 	The Road to Middle-earthby Tom Shippey
(1982; 2003) 	Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference(1992)
 	 	 	 	
A Gateway to Sindarinby David Salo
(2005) 	Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's Worldby Verlyn Flieger
(1983)	The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkienby Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull
(2015) 	A Sense of Tales Untoldby Peter Grybauskas
(2021) 	The History of The Hobbitby John D. Rateliff
(2007)
 	 	 	 	
The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien
(2022)	An Unexpected Cookbook: The Unofficial Book of Hobbit Cookery
(2017) 	A Tolkien Compassby Jared Lobdell
(2003) 	A Hobbit Journey: Discovering the Enchantment of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earthby Matthew Dickerson
(2012)	Tolkien's Theology of Beautyby Lisa Coutras
(2016)
 	 	 	 	
Tolkien's Modern Readingby Holly Ordway
(2021) 	J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasyby Robert T. Tally Jr.
(2022)	Tolkien and the Study of His Sourcesedited by Jason Fisher
(2011) 	Musical Scores and the Eternal Presentby Chiara Bertoglio
(2021) 	Tolkien and the Great Warby John Garth
(2003)
 	 	 	 	
Sub-creating Arda (of the Cormarë Series)
(2019) 	A Tolkien Bestiaryby David Day
(1978) 	Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Worksby Leslie A. Donovan
(2015) 	The Map of Tolkien's Beleriand and the Lands to the Northby Brian Sibley & John Howe
(1999)	Finding God in The Lord of the Ringsby Jim Ware
(2006)
 	 	 	 	
The Ring and the Crossed. by Paul E. Kerry
(2013) 	The Philosophy of Tolkienby Peter J. Kreeft
(2005) 	Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Goodby Joshua Hren
(2018) 	More People's Guide to J.R.R. Tolkienby TheOneRing.net
(2004) 	Death and Immortality in Middle-earth(of the Peter Roe Series)
(2017)
 	 	 	 	
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All(2003)	Gifted Amateurs and Other Essays: On Tolkien, the Inklings, and Fantasy Literatureby David Bratman
(2023)	The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williamsby Philip & Carol Zaleski(2015)	The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelderby Wayne Hammond & Christina Scull
(2006)	Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkien's Middle-earthby James E. Siburt
(2023)
 	 	 	 	
Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticismby Neil Isaacs & Rose A. Zimbardo
(2004)	The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth for Dummies
(2003) 	J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscriptby Marquette University
(2022) 	The Maps of Tolkien's Middle-earthby Brian Sibley & John Howe
(2003) 	Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earthby Catherine McIlwaine
(2018)
 	 	 	 	
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Centuryby Tom Shippey
(2000) 	J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessmented. by Michael D. C. Drout
(2006)	Interrupted Music: The Making Of Tolkien's Mythologyby Verlyn Flieger
(2005) 	The Messiah Comes to Middle-earthby Phil Ryken
(2017) 	Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey
(2014)
 	 	 	 	
Tolkien's Worldby Randel Helms (1974) 	One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythologyby Anne C. Petty (2002)	The World of the Rings: Language, Religion, and Adventure in Tolkienby Jared Lobdell
(2004) 	The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Traditionby Martin Simonson (2008)	J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustratorby Hammond and Scull
(1995)
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===Topic===
===Author===
The following books are solo or duo-authored books. Essay collections and collaborative works are in the next table.
Author / co-author 	Publication
Anderson, Douglas A. 	The Annotated Hobbit
Amendt-Raduege, Amy 	"The Sweet and the Bitter": Death and Dying in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Anderson, Robert Tuesley 	Recipes from the World of Tolkien
Arthur, Sarah 	Walking with Frodo: A Devotional Journey through The Lord of the Rings
Bernthal, Craig 	Tolkien's Sacramental Vision
Bertoglio, Chiara 	Musical Scores and the Eternal Present
Bowers, John M. 	Tolkien's Lost Chaucer
Blackham, Robert S. 	The J.R.R. Tolkien Miscellany, The Roots of Tolkien's Middle-earth, Tolkien's Oxford, Tolkien and the Peril of War, The Pitkin Guide to Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien: Inspiring Lives
Bratman, David 	Gifted Amateurs and Other Essays: On Tolkien, the Inklings, and Fantasy Literature
Bunting, Nancy 	The Gallant Edith Bratt
Butynskyi, Christopher 	The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns
Burns, Marjorie 	Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth
Caldecott, Stratford 	The Power of the Ring
Campbell, Liam 	The Ecological Augury in the Works of JRR Tolkien
Casagrande, Cristina 	Friendship in The Lord of the Rings
Carpenter, Humphrey 	J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography & The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and Their Friends
Carruthers, Leo 	Tolkien and Religion: Like an Invisible Lamp
Carswell, John 	Tolkien's Requiem
Carter, Lin 	Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings
Chance, Jane 	Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England & The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power
Cilli, Oronzo 	Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist
Coutras, Lisa 	Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration
Croft, Janet Brennan 	War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
Cummins, Antony 	The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Tolkien's World
Curry, Patrick 	Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity & Deep Roots in a Time of Frost: Essays on Tolkien
Day, David 	An Atlas of Tolkien, A Tolkien Bestiary, The Dark Powers of Tolkien, & The Battles of Tolkien
Dickerson, Matthew 	Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien & A Hobbit Journey: Discovering the Enchantment of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth
DiStefano, Matthew J. 	The Wisdom of Hobbits: Unearthing Our Humanity at 3 Bagshot Row
Doyle, Mark 	Utopian and Dystopian Themes in Tolkien's Legendarium
Duriez, Colin 	J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend
Fimi, Dimitra 	Tolkien, Race and Cultural History
Ferré, Vincent 	Tolkien: sur les rivages de la Terre du Milieu
Flieger, Verlyn 	Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie, Interrupted Music: The Making Of Tolkien's Mythology, Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien, There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien
Frailey, A. K. 	The Road Goes Ever On: A Christian Journey Through The Lord of the Rings
Freeman, Austin 	Tolkien Dogmatics
Fredrick, Candice 	Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams (with Sam McBride)
Fonstad, Karen Wynn 	The Atlas of Middle-earth
Foster, Robert 	The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
Garbowski, Christopher 	Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker
Garth, John 	Tolkien and the Great War, Tolkien at Exeter College, & The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
Gilliver, Peter 	The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
Glyer, Diana Pavlac 	Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Grimm, Tom 	The Unofficial Lord of the Rings Cookbook
Groom, Nick 	Tolkien in the Twenty-first Century
Grybauskas, Peter 	A Sense of Tales Untold
Hammond, Wayne G. 	J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, The Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, & The Art of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (with Christina Scull)
Halsall, Michael John 	Creation and Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision
Hazell, Dinah 	The Plants of Middle-earth: Plants and Sub-creation
Heims, Neil 	Great Authors: J.R.R. Tolkien
Helms, Randel 	Tolkien's World & Tolkien and the Silmarils: Imagination and Myth in The Silmarillion
Higgins, Sørina 	The Inklings & King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain
Hildebrandt, Greg 	Greg and Tim Hildebrandt: The Tolkien Years
Hillman, Thomas P. 	Power, Pity, and Tolkien's Ring
Honegger, Thomas 	Tweaking Things a Little
Horne, Mark 	J.R.R. Tolkien: The Mind Behind the Rings
Howe, John 	A Middle-earth Traveler: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor
Hren, Joshua 	Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good
Jenkins, Cyril Gary 	Amid Weeping There is Joy
Judd, Walter and Graham A.	Flora of Middle-earth
Kane, Douglas Charles 	Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion
Kreeft, Peter J. 	The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings
Lee, Alan 	The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook & The Hobbit Sketchbook
Lehning, Amber 	The Map of Wilderland: Ecocritical Reflections on Tolkien's Myth of Wilderness
Lobdell, Jared 	England and Always: Tolkien's World of the Rings, The World of the Rings: Language, Religion, and Adventure in Tolkien, A Tolkien Compass, & The Rise of Tolkienian Fantasy
Loconte, Joseph 	A Hobbit, a Wardrobe, and a Great War
MacLachlan, Christopher 	Tolkien and Wagner: The Ring and Der Ring
Markos, Louis 	On the Shoulders of Hobbits
Milbank, Alison 	Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians
McBride, Sam 	Tolkien's Cosmology: Divine Beings and Middle-earth
McIntosh, Jonathan S. 	The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie
Morelli, Luigi 	Tolkien, Mythology, Imagination and Spiritual Insight & J.R.R. Tolkien, Owen Barfield and the Cosmic Christ
Morse, Robert 	Bilbo's Birthday and Frodo's Adventure of Faith
Nagel, Rainer 	Hobbit Place-names: A Linguistic Excursion through the Shire (Cormarë Series no. 23)
Noad, Charles E. 	The Trees, the Jewels and the Rings
Noel, Ruth S. 	The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth
North, Wyatt 	J.R.R. Tolkien: A Life Inspired
Olsen, Corey 	Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
Ordway, Holly 	Tolkien's Modern Reading & Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography
Petty, Anne C. 	Tolkien in the Land of Heroes
Pearce, Joseph 	Tolkien: Man and Myth, Frodo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Lord of the Rings, & Bilbo's Journey: Discover the Hidden Meaning of The Hobbit
Purtill, Richard 	Lord of the Elves and Eldils & J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth Morality & Religion
Ryken, Phil 	The Messiah Comes to Middle-earth
Rateliff, John D. 	The History of The Hobbit
Risden, E. L. 	Tolkien's Intellectual Landscape
Rosebury, Brian 	Tolkien: A Critical Assessment & Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon
Rosegrant, John 	Tolkien, Enchantment, and Loss: Steps on the Developmental Journey
Salo, David 	A Gateway to Sindarin
Shippey, Tom 	The Road to Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Siburt, James E. 	Myth, Magic, and Power in Tolkien's Middle-earth
Smith, Mark Eddy 	Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues
Smith, Ross 	Inside Language
Snyder, Christopher 	The Making of Middle-earth: The Worlds of Tolkien and the Lord of the Rings
Sturch, Richard 	Four Christian Fantasists. A Study of the Fantastic Writings of George MacDonald, Charles Williams, C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien
Tally Jr., Robert T. 	J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit: Realizing History Through Fantasy & Representing Middle-earth: Tolkien, Form, and Ideology
Testi, Claudio A. 	Pagan Saints in Middle-earth
Tyler, J. E. A. 	The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
Ware, Jim 	Finding God in The Hobbit & Finding God in The Lord of the Rings
White, Michael 	Tolkien: A Biography
Whittingham, Elizabeth A. 	The Evolution of Tolkien's Mythology
Wood, Ralph C. 	Tolkien Among the Moderns & The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-earth
Zaleski, Philip and Carol 	The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings
===Editor===
In this context, editors are those who envision, select (most often), and oversee a collaboration of Tolkienian writers for a single publication with a particular focus. Many such books are in the Cormarë Series or Peter Roe Memorial Series.
Editor / co-editor 	Publication
Agøy, Nils Ivar 	Between Faith and Fiction: Tolkien and the Powers of His World
Arduini, Roberto 	Once Upon A Time... The Hobbit
Bassham, Gregory + Bronson, Eric 	The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All
Bogstad, Janice 	Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Boto, José María Miranda 	Law, Government, and Society in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works
Caldecott, Stratford 	Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration
Chance, Jane 	Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages & Tolkien the Medievalist
Collier, Ian 	Journeys & Destinations
Conrad-O-Briain, Helen 	J.R.R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City
Croft, Janet Brennan 	Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life, "Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War, Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language, & Tolkien in the New Century
Devaux, Michaël 	Tolkien Today
Donovan, Leslie A. 	Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works & Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life
Drout, Michael D. C. 	J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
Dubs, Kathleen 	Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien
Eden, Bradford Lee 	Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien & The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology
Eilmann, Julian 	Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond
Eilmann, Julian & Turner, Allan 	Tolkien's Poetry
Estes, Douglas 	Theology and Tolkien: Practical Theology
Ferré, Vincent 	Tolkien Today
Fisher, Jason 	Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
Flieger, Verlyn 	Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
Hammond, Wayne G. + Scull, Christina	The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder
Hart, Trevor 	Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology
Helen, Daniel 	Death and Immortality in Middle-earth
Hiley, Margaret 	Tolkien's Shorter Works with Frank Weinrich
Honegger, Thomas 	Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration, Translating Tolkien: Text and Film, Tolkien in Translation, Tolkien and Modernity 1, Sub-creating Arda, & Root & Branch: Approaches towards Understanding Tolkien
Hostetter, Carl F. 	Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
Houghton, John William 	Tolkien in the New Century
Hynes, Gerard 	J.R.R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City
Kaveny, Philip E. 	Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
Kerry, Paul E. 	Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work & The Ring and the Cross
Khovacs, Ivan 	Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology
Kirnier-Ludwig, Monika 	Binding Them All: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien and His Works
Kowalik, Barbara 	O What a Tangled Web: Tolkien and Medieval Literature: A View from Poland
Ladavas, Alberto 	Once Upon A Time... The Hobbit
Lam, Adam 	How We Became Middle-earth (Cormarë Series no. 13)
Lee, Stuart D. 	A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien
Lehoucq, Roland 	The Science of Middle-earth (with Loic Mangin and Jean-Sebastien Steyer)
Mann, Maureen F. 	Laughter in Middle-earth
Martsch, Nancy 	Tolkien in the New Century
McIlwaine, Catherine 	The Great Tales Never End & Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
Miesel, Sandra 	Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work
Milon, Anna 	Poetry and Song in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien & Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens
Neubauer, Łukasz 	Middle-earth, or There and Back Again (Cormarë Series no. 44)
Ovenden, Richard 	The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien
Pearce, Joseph 	Tolkien: A Celebration
Rateliff, John D. 	A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger & Tolkien in the New Century
Reid, Robin Anne 	Tolkien in the Land of Heroes
Reynolds, Patricia 	Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
Reynolds, Trevor 	The First and Second Ages
Ridoux, Charles 	Tolkien Today
Rodrigues, Nuno Simões 	Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien with Martin Simonson & Angélica Varandas
Röttinger, Annika 	"Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War
Schneidewind, Friedhelm 	Music in Middle-earth & Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond
Segura, Eduardo 	Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings
Sherwood, Will 	Twenty-first Century Receptions of Tolkien & Adapting Tolkien
Siewers, Alfred K. 	Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages
Simonelli, Saverio 	Once Upon A Time... The Hobbit
Simonson, Martin 	Representations of Nature in Middle-earth
Steimel, Heidi 	Music in Middle-earth
Streitberger, Sebastian 	Binding Them All: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien and His Works
Turner, Allan G. 	The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On
Vaccaro, Christopher 	The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality
Weinrich, Frank 	Tolkien and Modernity 1 & Tolkien and Modernity 2
Wells, Sarah 	The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
Williams, Hamish 	Tolkien and the Classical World
Wood, Ralph C. 	Tolkien Among the Moderns
Zimbardo, Rose A. 	Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism
===Decade===
==See also== 
*Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien
*LOTR:Canon
==References==
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