Wayne G. Hammond

Christina Scull

J.R.R. Tolkien

While on holiday in 1925, Tolkien's four-year-old son lost his beloved toy dog. To console him, his father improvised a story about a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him to be returned to normal. This novella tells the tale.

Roverandom

A collection of more than two-hundred reproductions of Tolkien's drawings, sketches, and paintings explores his career as an artist.

Artist & Illustrator

When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote HOBBIT he had become an accomplished amateur artist, and he was keen to contribute visually to the work. The finished book contained eight black and white drawings, five colour plates, two maps and his own jacket design. But behind these finished works there also lay a multitude of sketches and drawings, draft maps and runic designs, demonstrating Tolkien's careful planning and artistry. Indeed, every major artist who has illustrated the book subsequently has been influenced by Tolkien's own powerful visual conceptions.THE ART OF THE HOBBITcollects for the first time the complete surviving artwork that helped to underpin such a remarkable work of fiction. Written and edited by Tolkien experts Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, authors of the acclaimed biographyTOLKIEN: ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATORthis book uses brand new digital scans from the Bodleian Library in Oxford to show off Tolkien's paintings in more vivid detail than ever before, making this a worthy and lasting tribute to a largely overlooked side of Tolkien's genius.

The Art of the Hobbit

Pauline Baynes

Describes Tom's encounters with Goldberry, the River-woman's beautiful daughter; with Old Man Willow, who tries to trap Tom inside his trunk; with the Badger-folk; and with the ghostly Barrow-wight, who dwells in the ancient mound on the hilltop.

The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (Pocket Edition)

a reader's companion

The lord of the rings

Analyzes and illuminates Tolkien's lesser-known achievements as an artist and collects the complete artwork created for "The Hobbit," including over one hundred sketches, paintings, maps, and plans.

The Art of the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Douglas Allen Anderson

A Descriptive Bibliography

This companion to 'The Lord of the Rings' relates its textual history with a previously unpublished 'Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings', written by Tolkien himself.

A Reader's Companion

The Lord of the Rings

Die Kunst des Herr der Ringe von J.R.R. Tolkien

An in-depth reference to Tolkien's life and works provides brief alphabetical entries on a wide range of topics that encompass the author's source materials, synopses of his writings, a chronology, analysis of his characters, and the personal and historical influences on his writings.

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion & Guide

Volume 1 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published, including synopses of all his writings, and a Tolkien gazetteer and who’s who.

The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Volume 1: Chronology

A collection of more than two-hundred reproductions of Tolkien's drawings, sketches, and paintings explores his career as an artist

A prolific 20th-century author, editor, critic, reviewer and foreign correspondent, Arthur Ransome is historically considered one of the most important English children's writers between the wars. This first comprehensive bibliography describes in detail the various editions of the books he wrote and to which he contributed. Included in this work are more than 1,500 contributions by Ransome to newspapers and magazines, with extensive notes on their publication history. Among these contributions are controversial reports from Russia during World War I and the rise of the Bolsheviks.

A Bibliography

Arthur Ransome

The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion & Guide: Chronology

Hobbit w malarstwie i grafice Tolkiena

Richard E. Blackwelder

The fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of The Lord of the Rings, the enormously popular and influential masterpiece of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, is celebrated in these twenty papers presented at the Marquette University Tolkien conference of 21-23 October 2004. They are published in honor of the late Dr. Richard E. Blackwelder, who gave his important Tolkien collection to the Marquette University Libraries, long a major center for Tolkien research. Half of the papers in this book focus on The Lord of the Rings, while others investigate the larger body of Tolkien's achievements, as a writer of fiction, a maker of language, and one of the leading philologists of his day. The contributors to The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004 include a who's who of scholars in Tolkien studies: Douglas A. Anderson, David Bratman, Marjorie Burns, Jane Chance, Michael D.C. Drout, Matthew A. Fisher, Verlyn Flieger, Mike Foster, John Garth, Wayne G. Hammond, Carl F. Hostetter, Sumner G. Hunnewell, John D. Rateliff, Christina Scull, T.A. Shippey, Arden R. Smith, Paul Edmund Thomas, Richard C. West, and Arne Zettersten. As preface, Charles B. Elston, former director of Special Collections and University Archives, provides a reminiscence of Dr. Blackwelder and his generosity to Marquette. Fans and students of Tolkien alike will find these essays informative and entertaining.

Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder

The Lord of the Rings, 1954-2004

L'arte dello Hobbit di J. R. R. Tolkien

An in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works including synopses of all his writings, a Tolkien gazetteer, a Who's Who and chronology. The book is designed to be a central reference work for readers and students of Tolkien.

Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien’s life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chronology of Tolkien’s life, presenting the most detailed biographical record available.

Wayne G. Hammond

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