1938 Hobbit Project Research Bib

1938 Hobbit Project Research Bibliography

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938.

Photograph of JRRT in his Oxford study:

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Articles:

Albero Poveda, Jaume. "Narrative Models in Tolkien's Stories of Middle-Earth." Journal of English Studies 4 (2003-2004 2003): 7-22. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2006871070&site=ehost-live>.

Anderson, Douglas A. "R. W. Chambers and The Hobbit." Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 3 (2006): 137-147. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2006025632&site=ehost-live>.

Battis, Jes. "Gazing Upon Sauron: Hobbits, Elves, and the Queering of the Postcolonial Optic." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies 50.4 (Winter 2004): 908-926. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2004395274&site=ehost-live>.

Bowman, Mary R. "The Story Was Already Written: Narrative Theory in The Lord of the Rings." Narrative 14.3 (Oct. 2006): 272-293. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21644607&site=ehost-live>.

Burns, Marjorie. "Echoes of William Morris's Icelandic Journals in J. R. R. Tolkien." Studies in Medievalism 3.3-4 (Jan. 1991): 367-373. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1994067914&site=ehost-live>.

--------. “J. R. R. Tolkien: The British and the Norse in Tension.” Pacific Coast Philology 25:1/2 (Nov., 1990)49-59. JSTOR. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1316804

--------. "Tracking the Elusive Hobbit (In Its Pre-Shire Den)." Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 4 (2007): 200-211. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2007025208&site=ehost-live>.

Chance, Jane. "Is There a Text in this Hobbit? Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring." Literature Film Quarterly 30.2 (2002): 79-85. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2002440455&site=ehost-live>.

Donaldson, Mara E. "Baptizing the Imagination: The Fantastic as the Subversion of Fundamentalism." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 8.2 [30] (1997): 185-197. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2000063772&site=ehost-live>.

Firchow, Peter E. "The Politics of Fantasy: The Hobbit and Fascism." Midwest Quarterly 50.1 (Sep. 2008): 15-31. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=34906219&site=ehost-live>.

Green, William H. "King Thorin's Mines: The Hobbit as Victorian Adventure Novel." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 42.1 (Spring 2001): 53-64. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2001701272&site=ehost-live>.

Green, William H. "'Where's Mama?' The Construction of the Feminine in The Hobbit." Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature 22.2 (Apr. 1998): 188-195. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1999053436&site=ehost-live>.

Hall, Robert A., Jr. "Tolkien's Hobbit Tetralogy as 'Anti-Nibelungen'." Western Humanities Review 32 (1978): 351-359. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1978108275&site=ehost-live>.

Hawkins, Emma B. "Chalk Figures and Scouring in Tolkien-Land." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy 41.4 (Winter 2000): 385-396. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2001701268&site=ehost-live>.

Hieatt, Constance B. "The Text of The Hobbit: Putting Tolkien's Notes in Order." English Studies in Canada 7.2 (Summer 1981): 212-224. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1981071700&site=ehost-live>.

Hodge, James L. "The Heroic Profile of Bilbo Baggins." Florilegium: Papers on Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 8 (1986): 212-221. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1988081218&site=ehost-live>.

Kirk, Elizabeth. "I Would Rather Have Written in Elvish": Language, Fiction and "The Lord of the Rings" NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Autumn, 1971), pp. 5-18. JSTOR. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1345231

Klein, Thomas. "Stonc æfter stane (Beowulf, 1. 2288a): Philology, Narrative Context, and the Waking Dragon." Journal of English & Germanic Philology 106.1 (Jan. 2007): 22-44. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=25312482&site=ehost-live>.

Landa, Ishay. "Slaves of the Ring: Tolkien's Political Unconscious." Historical Materialism 10.4 (Dec. 2002): 113. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9555846&site=ehost-live>.

Lewis, Paul W. "Beorn and Tom Bombadil: A Tale of Two Heroes." Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 25.3-4 (2007 Spring-Summer 2007): 145-160. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2007652192&site=ehost-live>.

Livingston, Michael. "The Shell-Shocked Hobbit: The First World War and Tolkien's Trauma of the Ring." Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 25.1-2 [95-96] (2006 Fall-Winter 2006): 77-92. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2006300229&site=ehost-live>.

McGillivray, Murray. “Creative Anachronism: Marx's Problem with Homer, Gadamer's Discussion of ‘The Classical,’ and Our Understanding of Older Literatures.” New Literary History 25:2 (Spring, 1994): 399-413. JSTOR. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/469455

Mitchell, Bruce, "J.R.R. Tolkien and Old English Studies: An Appreciation." Mythlore 80 (1996): 206-212.

Morrison, Ronald D. "'I Much Prefer History, True or Feigned': Tolkien and Literary History." Kentucky Philological Review 19 (2005): 36-42. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2005531979&site=ehost-live>.

Nelson, Marie. "Time and J. R. R. Tolkien's 'Riddles in the Dark'." Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 27.1-2 [103-104] (2008 Fall-Winter 2008): 67-82. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2008652563&site=ehost-live>.

Ryan, J. S. “German Mythology Applied. The Extension of the Literary Folk Memory.” Folklore 77:1 (Spring, 1966): 45-59. JSTOR. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1258920

Sullivan, C. W., III. "J. R. R. Tolkien and the Telling of a Traditional Narrative." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 7.1 [25] (1996): 75-82. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1996028091&site=ehost-live>.

Timmons, Daniel. "Hobbit Sex and Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings." Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 23.3 [89] (Summer 2001): 70-79. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2001031166&site=ehost-live>.

Trokhimenko, Olga V. "'If You Sit on the Door-Step Long Enough, You Will Think of Something': The Function of Proverbs in J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit." Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship 20 (2003): 367-377. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2003970810&site=ehost-live>.

Watson, J.R. "The Hobbits and the Critics." Critical Quarterly 13 (1971): 252-258. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=1972107604&site=ehost-live>.

Whetter, K. S., and R. Andrew McDonald.. "'In the Hilt Is Fame': Resonances of Medieval Swords and Sword-Lore in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings." Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature 25.1-2 [95-96] (2006 Fall-Winter 2006): 5-28. MLA International Bibliography. EBSCO. Julia Rogers Library, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD. 4 Mar. 2009 <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2006300225&site=ehost-live>.

Reference Books in Library Collection:

Critical Studies of the Hobbit—

Author	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
Title	Hobbit
	The Annotated Hobbit : The hobbit, or, There and back again / J.R.R. Tolkien ; illustrated by the author ; introduction and notes by Douglas A. Anderson
Pub. Info.	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1988

LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
Main Collection	826.6 T64Jh 1988	AVAILABLE

Descript	x, 335 p. : ill. ; 29 cm
Bibliog.	Bibliography: p. [331]-335
Alt Title	Hobbit
	There and back again
ISBN	0395476909

Follows Tolkien’s process of revision, and locates sources and analogues of Hobbit events, persons, things and places. Do not expect this to be exhaustive of what we may find in our own investigations. Also, one major goal of this project is to train your investigative skills, so finding it yourself will be of value even if you can locate it (or something like it) in Anderson’s introduction or notes. If you find something Anderson does not know about, you are doubly rewarded.

Letters—

Author	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
Title	Correspondence. Selections
	The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien : a selection / edited by Humphrey Carpenter, with the assistence of Christopher Tolkien
Pub. Info.	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2000
Edition	1st Houghton Mifflin pbk. ed

LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
Main Collection	826.6 T64Sca 2000	AVAILABLE

Descript	502 p. ; 21 cm
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references and index
LC SUBJ HDG	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Correspondence
	Authors, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence
	Anglicists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence
	Fantasy literature -- Authorship
	Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Alt Author	Carpenter, Humphrey
	Tolkien, Christopher
ISBN	0618056998 (pbk.)

Consult this routinely about almost anything Tolkien might have thought about, even if it does not appear by name in the text of his published writings. Using the index, work through synonyms and related terms to determine what we can learn about the topic from his personal opinions. Note that this does not constitute “smoking gun” evidence of the source for or meaning of things found in the text. We must always consider the influence of his imagination, first and foremost, and of other sources, works of literature read or events experienced, etc.

Critical Biography—

Title	On Tolkien : interviews, reminiscences, and other essays / edited by Douglas A. Anderson and Marjorie J. Burns
Pub. Info.	Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2007

1 copy ordered for Main Collection on 01-09-2009.

LC SUBJ HDG	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Biography
	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Interviews
Alt Author	Anderson, Douglas A
	Burns, Marjorie J
ISBN	9780618445165
	0618445161

General Studies—

Author	Helms, Randel
Title	Tolkien's world
Pub. Info.	Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1974

LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
Main Collection	826.6 T64Sh	AVAILABLE

Descript	xi, 167 p. 22 cm
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references
LC SUBJ HDG	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
ISBN	0395184908

Author	Hillegas, Mark R. (Mark Robert), 1926-
Title	Shadows of imagination : the fantasies of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams / edited by Mark R. Hillegas ; with an afterword on J. R. R. Tolkien's The silmarillion by Pete Kreeft
Pub. Info.	Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c1979
Edition	New ed

LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
Main Collection	823.9 H651s 1979	AVAILABLE

Descript	xvii, 190 p. ; 22 cm
Series	Crosscurrents/modern critiques
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references and index
LC SUBJ HDG	Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963 -- Fictional works
	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
	Williams, Charles, 1886-1945 -- Fictional works
	English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
	Fantastic fiction, English -- History and criticism
ISBN	0809308975. 0809309084

Author	Lobdell, Jared, 1937-
Title	A Tolkien compass : including J. R. R. Tolkien's Guide to the names in The lord of the rings / edited by Jared Lobdell
Pub. Info.	La Salle, Ill. : Open Court, [1975]

LOCATION	CALL NO.	STATUS
Main Collection	826.6 T64Sl	AVAILABLE

Descript	201 p. ; 22 cm
Bibliog.	Includes bibliographical references
Contents	Gollum's character transformation in The hobbit / B. Christensen -- The psychological journey of Bilbo Baggins / D. Matthews -- The fairy-tale morality of The lord of the rings / W. Scheps -- The corruption of power / A. Perkins and H. Hill -- Everyclod and Everyhero: the image of man in Tolkien / D. Rogers -- The interlace structure of The lord of the rings / R. West -- Narrative pattern in The fellowship of the ring / D. Miller -- "The scouring of the shire": Tolkien's view of fascism / R. Plank -- Hell and the city: Tolkien and the traditions of Western literature / C. A. Huttar -- Aspects of the paradisiacal in Tolkien's work / U. M. Kaufmann -- Guide to the names in The lord of the rings / J. R. R. Tolkien
LC SUBJ HDG	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
	Fantastic fiction, English -- History and criticism
ISBN	087548316X 0875483038

Dedicated Periodicals—

Title	Tolkien studies. [electronic resource]
Pub. Info.	Morgantown, WV : West Virginia University Press, 2004-

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Frequency	Annual.
Pub Date	v.1 (2004)-
Note	Title from contents page (Project Muse; viewed Feb. 23, 2005).
	Also issued in print.
	Mode of access: World Wide Web.
LC SUBJ HDG	Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Periodicals.
	Electronic journals.
	Internet resources.
Unif Title	Tolkien studies (Online)
ISSN	1547-3163
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Web Sites:

The Tolkien Society: http://www.tolkiensociety.org

An enthusiast site with connections to the academic study of Tolkien’s works. Sponsor of an annual conference on Tolkien’s works which draws numerous academic contributors, and an annual “Tolkien Reading Day” on March 25 (explained by the society as the date of the downfall of Sauron).

The Tolkien Collector: http://www.tolkiencollector.com

A site created by Mike Williams for commercial collectors and fans, useful for its attention to the publishing history of JRRT’s books in all editions. This is the web page for the 1938 American first edition of The Hobbit: http://www.tolkiencollector.com/pages/record0123.html

and its link to a publishing history of the edition, including a digital image of the Unwin publishing firm’s reader review (by 10-year-old Rayner Unwin, son of the firm’s head):

http://www.tolkiencollector.com/hobbhist.htm

Includes printing variant list.

The Tolkien Library: http://www.tolkienlibrary.com

Pieter Collier’s site for collectors of Tolkien editions offers another source of information on the American first edition, with somewhat more careful bibliographic information about the cover and title page, and the illustrations. See this web page:

http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/booksbytolkien/hobbit/editions.htm

The American Tolkien Society: http://www.americantolkiensociety.org

Created in 1975, the organization and its web site are not nearly as rich with information as the English and European sites (above). The society did begin promoting “Tolkien Week” during the week containing September 22 (Bilbo’s and Frodo’s birthdays). Not coincidentally, that week is also the week of the first edition of The Hobbit. All sources currently available are unanimous in declaring September 21 as the date in 1937 when the English edition was begun. No date has been discovered for the first impression of the American edition in 1938, though the second impression began on March 1.