Not an exhaustive criticism, but it does introduce his life, major short works, and long fiction.

Presents the epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth, following the odyssey of Frodo the hobbit and his companions on a quest to destroy the Ring of Power.

This volume includes many alternative scenes to those found in the original story.

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until ...

Contains the fiftieth anniversay edition of all three volumes of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic "Lord of the Rings," and includes textual notes, reference materials, and index.

Packed with fascinating facts about Tolkien's life and labors, this delightful volume includes extracts from his works, letters and interviews, as well as from his contemporaries and admirers.

Croft explores the different aspect of Tolkien's relationship with war both in his life and in his work from the early Book of Lost Tales to his last story Smith of Wootten Major, and concentrating on his greatest and most well-known works ...

Presents the life of J.R.R. Tolkien, from his early academic career at Oxford to his later great success as the writer of the "The Hobbit" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.

In this book Christopher Tolkien has attempted to extract the story of Beren and Lúthien from the comprehensive work in which it was embedded; but that story was itself changing as it developed new associations within the larger history.