The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (Houghton Mifflin
Set)
The Letters of J. R. R.
Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter
A Tolkien Miscellany
Roverandom
The Tolkien Reader
The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
Pictures
The Children of Hurin
The Legend of Sigurd and
Gudrun
On Fairy Stories
The Lord of the Rings (1
Vol. Movie Tie-In Omnibus)
The J. R. R. Tolkien
Audio Collection
The Lays of Beleriand
The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
The Lost Road and Other Writings
The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta and the Annals
The Rankin/Bass Hobbit
The World of the Rings,
by Jared Lobdel
Tolkien: Author of the
Century, by Tom Shippey
The Complete Guide to
Middle-Earth, by Robert Foster
A Hobbit’s Journal, by
Michael Green
Greg and Tim
Hildebrandt: The Tolkien Years
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist
and Illustrator, by Hammond & Scull
The Atlas of
Middle-Earth, by Kathryn Wynn Fonstead
Bored of the Rings,
Harvard Lampoon
Master of Middle-Earth, by
Paul H. Kocher
The Lord of the Rings Fotonovel
One
of the peculiar effects of finding Middle-earth is that, not only does it
become ‘the center of [one’s] secret knowledge’, as Peter S. Beagle has it, but
one feels the immediate need to share that secret, to proselytize for it, as it
were, so as to have someone to talk with about it. I remember long summer
nights retelling the story of The Lord of the Rings to my
brother John, as we lay on pallets under the air conditioning in the living
room, trying to relax and fall asleep. We went to see Ralph Bakshi’s The
Lord of the Rings movie together. I’m not sure exactly when John
started to get his own Tolkien books, but I do remember them clustered close to
his fish tank. Lately I've felt the urge to catalog his Tolkien library, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it was bigger than I realized. I've tried to reproduce the exact covers; I'm not to sure about the Audio Collection or the 1-Volume movie tie-in. Since I've included the Audio Collection, I'm sure I could add whatever movies or soundtracks that he has. I'm expecting a little essay about Tolkien and its intersection and influence on John's life, which I intend to publish here.
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