Studies on J.R.R. Tolkien

The world and the languages created by J.R.R. Tolkien generated a true research sector tolkienienne.

Critical studies

Many works in English language were dedicated to the work of Tolkien. The French studies are rarer and often recent, testifying to the relatively late interest carried with Tolkien by French-speaking criticism:

Jacques Bergier, Admirations , Christian Bourgois, 1970. See in particular chapter 7, J.R.R. Tolkien or the Lord of the rings . This collection, where Bergier at the time evokes its admiration for several still untranslated Anglo-Saxon authors in French, made known the Lord of the Rings in Christian Bourgois who published it in 1972-1973.
Louis Bouyer, magic places of the legend of Graal , editions O.E.I.L., Paris, 1986
Pierre Jourde, imaginary Geographies: of some inventors of worlds at the 20th century: Gracq, Borges, Michaux, Tolkien , Paris, 1991. ISBN 2-7143-0422-2.
Edouard Kloczko, Dictionary of the elfic languages: Quenya ( Encyclopedia of the Earth of the Medium, volume 1), the Thames, 1995.
Tolkien in France , collection of old critical analyzes republished by Edouard Kloczko, Arda, 1998. ISBN 2-911979-02-8
Nicolas Bonnal, Tolkien, universes of a magician , Beautiful Letters, 1998. ISBN 2-251-44137-9.
Vincent Shoed, Tolkien: On the shores of the Earth of the Medium, Christian Bourgois, 2001 (and Close Pocket, 2002, for the edition of pocket). ISBN 2-267-01573-0. A complete test on the Lord of the Rings with a multidirectional analysis of the topics, characters, geography, history of the Lord of the Rings , etc; and a thorough analysis of the question of dead and human condition.
the Sheet of the Company n°1 , collective work under the direction of Michael Devaux, the Eye of the Sphinx, 2001. ISBN 2-914405-07-3 (exhausted). Book of studies tolkieniennes, including literary articles, files sets of themes and recensions.
Edouard Kloczko, Dictionary of the languages of the Hobbits, the Dwarves, Orcs (etc) ( Encyclopedia of the Earth of the Medium, volume 4), Arda, 2002. ISBN 2-911979-04-4.
Isabelle Smajda, the Lord of the Rings or the temptation of the evil , PUF, coll Sociology of Today, 2002. ISBN 2130530508. A work polemizes whose reception was discussed by the communities of readers as by university criticisms, asserting its parties taken, of its misinterpretations and its inaccuracies.
Stratford Caldecott, Didier Rancid and Grégory Solari, Tolkien, Faërie and Christianisme , AD Solem, 2002. ISBN 2884820140.
Tolkien, roots of legendary the ( the Sheet of the Company n°2 ), collective work under the direction of Michael Devaux, AD Solem, 2003. ISBN 2-88482-027-2.
Irene Fernandez, And if one spoke about the Lord of the Rings , Presses of the Rebirth, 2003. ISBN 2856168639.
Tolkien, 30 years after (1973-2003) , collective work directed by Shoed Vincent, Christian Bourgois, 2004. ISBN 2-267-01738-5. About fifteen articles, of which some come from the conferences suggested at the university Rennes 2 in 2003; also contains a discussion with the French editor of Tolkien (Christian Bourgois) and one of its illustrators most famous (John Howe)
Charles Ridoux, Tolkien, the Song of the World , the Beautiful Letters, coll Encrage, 2004. ISBN 2-251-74121-6.
Tolkien, another glance on the Earth of the Medium, collective work directed by Mathias Daval, Edysseus editions, 2005. ISBN 2-9523058-1-1.

Geographical atlases of the Earth of the Medium were also carried out:

Barbara Strachey, Journeys off Frodo: Year Atlas off J.R.R. Tolkien' S Lord off the Boxing rings , London: 1981 ( Voyages of Frodon - the Atlas of the Lord of the Rings , illustrated by Jerome Lereculey, editions BFP, 2003). Work of 51 charts recalling the voyages of Frodon and his/her companions in the Lord of the Rings .
Karen Wynn Fonstad, The Atlas off Middle-earth , Boston: 1981; second revised edition (largely) increased in 1991. Although still untranslated in French, this reference book benefits from the Silmarillion and the series Histoire of the Earth of the Medium.

Nonexhaustive bibliography of some English reference books:

Verlyn Flieger, Splintered Light: Logos And Language In Tolkien' S World , William B. Erdmans Publishing, 1983; second revised and increased edition, Kent State University Near, 2002. ISBN 0873387449.
Verlyn Flieger, has Question Time off: J.R.R. Tolkien' S Road to Faerie , Kent State University Near, 1997. ISBN 0873385748.
Verlyn Flieger, Interrupted Music: The Making Off Tolkien' S Mythology , Kent State University Near, 2005. ISBN 0873388240.
Tolkien' S Legendarium: Essays one The History off Middle-earth , collective work under the direction of Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter, Greenwood Near, 2000. ISBN 0313305307.
Tolkien Studies, Volume 1 , collective work under the direction of Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger, West Virginia University, 2004. ISBN 0937058874.
Tolkien Studies, Volume 2 , collective work under the direction of Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger, West Virginia University, 2005. ISBN 1933202033.
Tolkien Studies, Volume 3 , collective work under the direction of Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger, West Virginia University, 2006. ISBN 1933202106.
Tolkien Studies, Volume 4 , collective work under the direction of Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout and Verlyn Flieger, West Virginia University, 2007. ISBN 1933202266. Volume also including a republication of the test The Name “Nodens” of Tolkien (1932).
T.A. Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth , Allen & Unwin, 1982; second revised edition HarperCollins, 1993.
T.A. Shippey, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author off the Century , HarperCollins, 2000.
Anne C. Petty and J. Stein, Tolkien in the Land off Heroes: Discovering the Human Spirit , Cold Spring Near, 2003. ISBN 1892975998.
Tolkien: With Celebration. Collected Writings one has Literary Legacy , work collective under the direction of Joseph Pearce, HarperCollins, 1999.
Tolkien in Translation , ouvragle collective ( Cormarë Series n°4 ), Walking Tree Publishers, 2003. ISBN 3952142468. This work tackles the problem of the translation of works of Tolkien in various languages. The French translation is treated in a contribution of Vincent Ferré, Daniel Lauzon and David Riggs.
The Boxing ring off Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary , collective work of Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner, Oxford University Near, 2006. ISBN 0-19-861069-6. This work approaches the academic contribution of Tolkien to OED and explores in return the influence of this work on its universe of fiction.

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