J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia

Ab Language

Adventures of Tom Bombadil

Ælfwine (old English “elf-Friend”)

Alcuin (ca. 735-804)

Aldhelm (d. 709 or 710)

Allegory

Alliteration

Alliterative Revival

Alliterative Verse by Tolkien

Alphabets, Invented

America in the 1960s: Reception of Tolkien

Ancrene Wisse

Angband

Angels

Animals in Tolkien's Works

Aquinas, Thomas

Aragorn

Arda

Arkenstone

Arms and Armor

Art and Illustrations by Tolkien

Arthurian Literature

Arthurian Romance

Artistic Movements

Artists and Illustrators' Influence on Tolkien

Arwen

Asceticism

Astronomy and Cosmology, Middle-Earth

Auden, W.h.: Influence of Tolkien

Augustine of Canterbury, Saint, First Archbishop of Canterbury (d. C. 604)

Augustine of Hippo

Authorship

Bakshi, Ralph (1938-)

Barfield, Owen (1898-1997)

Barrie, J.m. (1860–1937)

Battle of Maldon, the

Bede (st. Bede the Venerable, Old English Bæda) (672?–735)

Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter (1911-81)

Beorn

Beowulf and the Critics

“beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”

Beowulf: Tolkien's Scholarship

Beowulf: Translations by Tolkien

Beren

Bible

Bilbo Baggins

Biology of Middle-Earth

Bliss, Alan (1921-1985)

Bodleian Library, Oxford

Book of Lost Tales I

Book of Lost Tales II

Boromir

Bournemouth

Boyens, Philippa

Brut by Layamon

Buchan, John (1875-1940)

Butler, Samuel (1835-1902)

Caedmon

Calendars

Capitalism

Carolingians

Catholicism, Roman

Cave, the

Caves and Mines

Cecil, Lord David (1902-86)

Charms

“chaucer as Philologist: The Reeve's Tale”

Childhood of Tolkien

Children's Literature and Tolkien

Christ

Christ: “advent Lyrics”

Christian Readings of Tolkien

Christianity

Church of England

Class in Tolkien's Work

Coghill, Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer (1899-1980)

Collecting

Colors

Comedy

Communism

Criticism of Tolkien, Twentieth Century

Cruces in Medieval Literature

Cynewulf

Dagnall, Susan (1910-52)

Danes: Contributions to English Culture

Danish Language

Dante

D'ardenne, S.r.t.o. (1899-1986)

Darkness

Death

Denethor

Denham Tracts, the

Denmark: Reception of Tolkien

Deor

Descent

Despair (wanhope)

Devils Coach-Horses

Devils

Doors and Gates

Doubles

Dragons

Dramatizations: Stage and Spoken

Dreams

Druids

Dundas-grant, Jim (1896-1985)

Dutch Language

Dwarves

Dyson, Hugo (1896-1975)

Eärendil

Earth

East, the

Easterlings

Education

Egypt: Relationship to Númenóreans

Eldamar

Elements

Elendilmir

Elessar

Elf-shot

Elrond

Elves

Elves: Kindreds and Migrations

Elves: Reincarnation

Elvish Compositions and Grammars

Enchantment

England, Twentieth Century

“english and Welsh”

Ents

Environmentalism and Eco-Criticism

Environmentalist Readings of Tolkien

Éomer

Éowyn

Epic Poetry

Eru

Esperanto

Essays Presented to Charles Williams

Estate

Eucatastrophe

Eucharist

Exile

Existentialism

Exodus, Edition of

Faërie

Fairies

Fairyology, Victorian

Fall of Man

Family Background

Family Trees

Fan Art

Fan Fiction

Fandom

Faramir

Farmer Giles of Ham

Farmer Giles

Father Christmas Letters

Father Christmas

Fëanor

Feminist Readings of Tolkien

Fictionality

Film Scripts, Unused

Finland: Literary Sources

Finland: Reception of Tolkien

Finn and Hengest

Finnish Language

Finrod

Finwë and Míriel

Folklore

Food

Fortune and Fate

“a Fourteenth-Century Romance”

Frame Narrative

France and French Culture

France: Reception of Tolkien

“francis Thompson”: Article for Exeter College Essay Club

Free Will

French Language

Frodo

Galadriel

Gaming

Gandalf

Garm

Gaze

Geach, E.f.a.: “romance”

Gender in Tolkien's Works

Genesis

German Folktale: Deutsche Mythologie

German Race Laws

German: Modern

Germany

Germany, Reception of Tolkien

Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Gilson, Robert Quilter (1893-1916)

Gimli

Glorfindel

Goldberry

Gollum

Gondor

Good and Evil

Gordon, E.v. (1896-1938)

Gordon, Ida (1907-)

Gothic Language

Goths

Grammar

Great Haywood

Greece: Reception of Tolkien

Greek Gods

Green, Roger Lancelyn (1918-87)

Gregory the Great (c. 540–604)

Gríma (wormtongue)

Grove, Jennie (1860-1938)

Guthlac, Poem

Guthlac, Saint

Haigh, Walter E. (1856-1931)

Havard, Humphrey (1901-85)

Health and Medicine

Heathenism and Paganism

Heaven

Hell

Heroes and Heroism

Hierarchy

History of Middle-Earth: Overview

History, Anglo-Saxon

Hobbit, the

Hobbiton

Hobbits

Holy Maiden Hood by J. Furnival: Review by Tolkien

Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

Homer

Homosexuality

Howard, Robert E. (1906-36)

Humor

Hungary: Reception of Tolkien

Huns

I Lam Na Ngolda Thon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue

Immortality

Incarnation

Industrialization

Inklings

Ireland

Italian Language

Italy: Reception of Tolkien

‘iþþlen' in Sawles Warde

Jackson, Peter

Japan: Reception of Tolkien

Jewels

Jones, Gwyn

Jordanes: History of the Goths

Joyce, James (1882-1941)

Judaism

Juliana

Jungian Theory

Justice and Injustice

Katherine Group

King Alfred

Kingship

Knowledge

Koivië-néni And Cuiviénen

Kolbítar

Kôr

Langland, William

Language, Theories of

Languages: Early Introduction and Interest

Languages Invented by Tolkien

Latin Language

Latin Literature

Law

Lays of Beleriand, the

Leechbook and Herbarium

Leeds

Leeds University Verse 1914-24

Legolas

Lembas

Letters of J.r.r. Tolkien, the

Lewis, C.s. (1898-1963)

Lewis, Warren Hamilton (1895-1973)

Library, Personal

Light

Literary Context, Twentieth Century

Literary Influences, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Literature, Twentieth Century: Influence of Tolkien

Lombardic Language

Lonely Mountain (erebor)

Lord of the Rings, the

Lord of the Rings, The: Success of

Lost Road, the

Lothlórien

Lúthien

Lyme Regis

Lyric Poetry

Macdonald, George (1824–1905)

Magic: Middle-Earth

Maiar

Mandos

Manuscripts by Tolkien

Manuscripts, Medieval

Maps

Marriage

Marxist Readings of Tolkien

Mathew, Fr. Anthony Gervase (1905-76)

Mccallum, Ronald Buchanan (1898-1973)

Melian

Memory

Men, Middle-Earth

Merchandising

Mercy

Merry

“middle English ‘losenger:, A Sketch of an Etymological and Semantic Inquiry”

Middle English Vocabulary, a (1922)

Middle-earth

Milton

Mirkwood

Missions from Anglo-Saxon England

Misty Mountains

Mithril

Monsters

Mordor

Morgan, Father Francis

Morgoth and Melkor

Morgoth's Ring

Moria

Morris, William

Mountains

Mr. Bliss

‘‘ms Bodley 34: A Re-Collation Of a Collation''

Music in Middle-Earth

‘mythology for England'

Mythology, Celtic

Mythology, Germanic

“Mythopoeia”

Nature

Nazi Party

Neave, Jane (1872-1963)

Netherlands: Reception of Tolkien

New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District, a

“nomenclature of the Lord of the Rings”

Norman Conquest

Northern Venture, a

North Polar Bear

Northern Courage

Norway: Reception of Tolkien

Norwegian Language

Obituary for Henry Bradley

Old English

Old English Apollonius of Tyre, Edited by Tolkien

Old French Literature

Old High German

Old High German Literature

Old Man Willow

Old Mercian

Old Norse Language

Old Norse Literature

Old Norse Translations

“on Fairy-Stories”

“on Translating Beowulf”

One Ring, the

Oral Tradition

Orality

Orfeo, Sir

Owl and the Nightingale, the

Oxford

Palantíri

Paradise

Parodies

Pearl: Edition by E.v. Gordon

Penance

Peoples of Middle-Earth

Phial

Philately

Philo-semitism

Pilgrimage

Pippin

Plants

Plato

Poems by Tolkien in Other Languages

Poems by Tolkien: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil

Poems by Tolkien: The History of Middle-Earth

Poems by Tolkien: The Hobbit

Poems by Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings

Poems by Tolkien: Uncollected

Poland: Reception of Tolkien

Politics

Popular Music

Possessiveness

Power in Tolkien's Works

Prehistory: “cavemen”

Pride

Prophecy

Prose Style

Pseudonym: Bagpuize, K.

Publications, Posthumous

Publishing History

Enyaqetsa: The Quenya Phonology and Lexicon

Quest Narrative

Race and Ethnicity in Tolkien's Works

Race in Tolkien Films

Racism, Charges of

Rankin/bass Productions, Inc.

Ransome, Arthur

Redemption

Report on the Exca Vation of the Prehistoric, Roman and Post-Roman Site in Lydney Park, Gloucestershire

Resurrection

Return of the Shadow

Reynolds, R.w. (1867-1948)

Rhetoric

Riddles

Riddles: Sources

Ring-giving

Rings

Rings of Power

Rivendell

Road Goes Ever On, the

Rohan

Roman History

Romances: Middle English and French

Roverandom

Runes

Russia: Reception of Tolkien

Russian Language

Sacrifice

Saint Brendan

Saint John

Saint Oswald

Saints

Sam

Saracens and Moors

Saruman

Satan and Lucifer

Sauron

Sauron Defea Ted

Saxo Grammaticus

Sayers, Dorothy Leigh (1893-1957)

Scholars of Medieval Literature, Influence of

Seafarer, the

Seafarer: Ida Gordon Edition

‘‘secret Vice, A''

Sexuality in Tolkien's Works

Shakespeare

Shaping of Middle-Earth

Shelob

Shire, the

Silmarillion, the

Silmarils

Sin

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo, Edited by Christopher Tolkien

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Edition with E.v. Gordon

Smith, Geoffrey Bache (1894-1916)

Smith of Wootton Major

Smith of Wootton Major (character)

Solomon and Sa Turn

“some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography”

Song Contests

South, the

Spain: Reception of Tolkien

Spanish Language

Spenser, Edmund

Spring Harvest, A: G. Bache Smith, Ed. J.r.r. Tolkien

Subject Theory and Semiotics

Suffield Family

Suicide

Sweden: Reception of Tolkien

Swedish Language

Symbolism in Tolkien's Works

Taniquetil

Tavrobel (or Tathrobel)

T.c.b.s. (tea Club and Barrovian Society)

Technological Subcultures: Reception of Tolkien

Technology in Middle-Earth

Television: U.s. Coverage

Tertullian

Textual History: Errors and Emendations

Textuality

Theoden

Theological and Moral Approaches in Tolkien's Works

Theology in the Lord of the Rings

Thingol

Thorin Oakenshield

Time

Time Travel

Tol Eressëa

Tolkien Reader, the

Tolkien Remembered: Humphrey Carpenter

Tolkien Scholarship: An Overview

Tolkien Scholarship: First Decades: 1954;1980

Tolkien Scholarship: Institutions

Tolkien Scholarship: Since 1980

Tolkien, Arthur Reuel (1857-96)

Tolkien, Baillie (1941-)

Tolkien, Christopher Reuel

Tolkien, Faith

Tolkien, Hilary (1894-1976)

Tolkien, John (1917-2003)

Tolkien (née Suffield), Mabel (1870-1904)

Tolkien, Michael (1920-84)

Tolkien, Priscilla (1929-)

Tolkien, Simon (1959-)

Tom Bombadil

Tour in the Alps, 1911

Towers

Treason

Treason of Isengard, the

Tree and Leaf

Treebeard

Trees

Trench Fever

Túrin

Turville-petre, Joan

Two Trees

Tyranny

Undersea Landscape: Features Named after Tolkien Characters

Unfinished Tales

Ungoliant (q., Ungol, Spider + Liante, Tendril)

Valar

Vale of the White Horse

“valedictory Address”

Valinor

Viking Raids

Violence

Virgil

Wain, John (1925-1994)

Wanderer, the

War

War of the Jewels, the

War of the Ring, the

Warwick

Weapons, Named

Welsh Language

Whitby

Wilderland

Williams, Charles Walter Stansby (1886-1945)

Wiseman, Christopher (1893-1987)

Wizards

Wolvercote Cemetery

Women in Tolkien's Works

World War I

World War II

Wyke-smith, E.a. and the Mar Vellous Land of Snergs

Ylfe, Álfar, Elves