…we have a new edition of Tolkien in the collection, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun, his retelling in verse of two Norse myths (edited by Christopher Tolkien). Spending time in the pleasant summer months (c’mon, a few days have been pleasant) reading and rereading Tolkien is certainly summer time spent well, and with Odyssey Online about to take a two week vacation, I thought I’d recommend new materials about Tolkien that we’ve got in the collection. We’ve been working to build the collection of scholarship on Tolkien, and these books ought to tide everyone over until we’re back to making recommendations in mid-August:
- History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff
- Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner
- Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien by Matthew Dickerson
- Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind Lord of the RIngs by Statford Caldecott
- Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages edited by Jane Chance
- Keys of Middle Earth by Stuart Lee and Elizabeth Solopova
- Reading The Lord of the Rings: New Writings on Tolkien’s Trilogy edited by Robert Eaglestone