Index:Interviews with J.R.R. Tolkien
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Interviews with J.R.R. Tolkien is a project on Tolkien Gateway which strives to create a chronological list of all known interviews conducted with J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Late 1955 or early 1956: "With Camera and Pen" (by Anthony Price; Oxford Times, 27 January 1956)[1]
- 1957: "Carnival of Books" Interview
- 1961: Interview by Jan Broberg
- 1961: "Den besynnerlige professor Tolkien" (Interview by Lars Gustafsson)
- 1964: 1964 BBC Interview
- 1965: 1965 BBC Interview
- 1966: "The Hobbit-forming World of J.R.R. Tolkien"
- 1966: "Talking to a Maker of Modern Myths" (Daphne Castell; Glasgow Herald, 6 August 1966, and Christian Science Monitor, 11 August 1966)
- 1966: "Tolkien Talking" (Hunter Davies; The Sunday Times, 27 November 1966)
- 1966, July 26: Interview by John Ezard, extracts published in "Writers Talking-1: The Hobbit Man" (Oxford Mail, 3 August 1966). Slightly different extracts from the interview were published in Ezard's article "Tolkien's Shire" (Weekend Guardian 28-29 December 1991)[2][3]
- 1966, August 2: Interview by William Cater, published as "Lord of the Hobbits" (Daily Express, 22 November 1966[4]
- 1966, August 9: Interview by Philip Norman published as "The Hobbit Man" (Sunday Times Magazine, 15 January 1967) and as "The Prevalence of Hobbits" in The New York Times Magazine (15 January 1967)[5]. Apparently the articles are "similar but not identical".[6]
- 1967: "A Benevolent and Furry-footed People" William Foster (The Scotsman, 25 March 1967)
- 1967: "J.R.R. Tolkien Talks about the Discovery of Middle-earth, the Origins of Elvish" (Richard Plotz; Seventeen, 17 January 1967)
- 1968: "Fireworks for the Author" (Don Chapman 'Anthony Wood', Oxford Mail, 9 February 1968)
- 1968: "In the Footsteps of the Hobbits" (Keith Brace; Birmingham Post, 25 May 1968)
- 1968: "The Man Who Understands Hobbits"
- 1968: Tolkien in Oxford
- 1972, ?Mid-March: "Tolkien Seeks the Quiet Life in Oxford" (Oxford Mail, 22 March 1972)[7]
References
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 483
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 670-1
- ↑ Weekend Guardian.1991 at Tolkienbooks.net (accessed 22 May 2011)
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 671
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, pp. 672, 686-7
- ↑ The Sunday Times Magazine at Tolkienbooks.net (accessed 22 May 2011)
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 760
