Tolkienology
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
by:
Tom Shippey
3.95 avg rating — 6,103 ratings 
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Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-Earth
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John Garth
3.76 avg rating — 7,225 ratings 
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The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and Their Friends 3.94 avg rating — 3,721 ratings
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The Shaping of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle-Earth #4)
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J.R.R. Tolkien
4.02 avg rating — 3,314 ratings 12. 
The Peoples of Middle-Earth (The History of Middle-Earth #12)
by:
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.19 avg rating — 4,797 ratings 
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Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
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Verlyn Flieger
4.02 avg rating — 1,133 ratings 15. 
J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (Two Volume Box Set)
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Christina Scull
4.72 avg rating — 72 ratings 
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The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie 4.38 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits
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Dimitra Fimi
4.22 avg rating — 88 ratings 
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Understanding The Lord Of The Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism
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Rose A. Zimbardo
4.03 avg rating — 2,094 ratings 25. 
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A Reader's Companion to the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings
by:
Isaac Asimov
3.70 avg rating — 46 ratings 
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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
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Peter Gilliver
4.11 avg rating — 1,055 ratings 35. 
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The Loss and the Silence. Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams.
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Margaret Hiley
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Following Gandalf: Epic Battles and Moral Victory in The Lord of the Rings 4.15 avg rating — 441 ratings
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Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings 4.27 avg rating — 1,319 ratings
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The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and the Lord of the Rings
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Paul E. Kerry
4.15 avg rating — 27 ratings 42. 
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
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John Garth
4.31 avg rating — 534 ratings 46. 
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology
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Verlyn Flieger
4.22 avg rating — 160 ratings 46. 
Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work
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Paul E. Kerry
4.09 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
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Tom Simon
4.43 avg rating — 35 ratings 
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Master of Middle-Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Paul H. Kocher
3.77 avg rating — 3,161 ratings 
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A Middle-Earth Traveller: Sketches from Bag End to Mordor
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John Howe
4.59 avg rating — 1,929 ratings 
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The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings
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Peter Kreeft
4.23 avg rating — 1,425 ratings 60. 
Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Oxford undergraduate created Middle-earth
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John Garth
4.45 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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The Mirror Crack'd: Fear and Horror in JRR Tolkien's Major Works
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Lynn Forest-Hill
4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings 64. 
The Inklings of Oxford: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and their Friends
by:
Harry Lee Poe
4.09 avg rating — 262 ratings 
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The Shamanic Odyssey: Homer, Tolkien, and the Visionary Experience
by:
Robert Tindall
4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings 
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The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, Volume 1: Chronology
by:
Christina Scull
4.57 avg rating — 54 ratings 72. 
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, Volume 2: Reader's Guide
by:
Christina Scull
4.49 avg rating — 45 ratings 
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The Hobbit Party: The Vision of Freedom That Tolkien Got, and the West Forgot
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Jonathan Witt
3.98 avg rating — 131 ratings 75. 
The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth: Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings 4.11 avg rating — 281 ratings