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Suggestions for Further Reading
Carpenter, Humphrey. J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
———. The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends. London: Allen and Unwin, 1978.
Hammond, Wayne G. J.R.R.Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography. Winchester, England: St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1993.
Johnson, Judith. J.R.R. Tolkien: Six Decades of Criticism. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Kocher, Paul Harold. The Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.
Tolkien, Christopher. The History of The Lord of the Rings . New York: Mariner Books, 2000.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Silmarillion. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1977.
———. The Book of Lost Tales. New York: Del Rey, 1992.
———. The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Tyler, J.E.A. The Tolkien Companion. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1976.
West, Richard C. Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1991.
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