Index:Reminiscences of J.R.R. Tolkien

Reminiscences of J.R.R. Tolkien is a page on Tolkien Gateway which collects publications of people recalling their personal experiences of J.R.R. Tolkien. Apart from their literary value, reminiscences might also be useful for scholars researching the life and works of Tolkien.

Books

• 1962: Sprightly Running
• 1965: The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity of Malory's Morte Darthur
• 1969: The Tolkien Relation
• 1971: Music Drama in Schools
• 1974: C.S. Lewis: A Biography (by Green and Hooper)
• 1976: Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers
• 1976: Tolkien and The Silmarillion
• 1978: Eglerio! In Praise of Tolkien
• 1979: From an "Outsider"
• 1982: Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis
• 1982: The Road to Middle-earth
• 1985: A Path from Rome: An Autobiography by Anthony Kenny
• 1999: George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer
• 1999: Tolkien: A Celebration
• 1999: A Companion to the Gawain-Poet in ‘Tolkien and the Oxford English School’ by Derek Brewer.
• 2005: Remembering C.S. Lewis: Recollections by Those Who Knew Him
• 2008: Tolkien - min vän Ronald och hans världar (published in English as J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process in 2011) by Arne Zettersten
• 2013: La Conexion Española de J.R.R. Tolkien by José Manuel Ferrández Bru
• 2013: Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
• 2014: The Unexpected Professor by John Carey

Articles

• 1972: L. Sprague de Camp, "Letter to the editor", Andúril 1 (April 1972, pp. 8-9)
• 1973: Mallorn 6 (January 1973)
  • "Belladonna Goes to a Party"
• 1973: Locus #149 (14 September 1973) [L. Sprague de Camp about his meeting with Tolkien]
• 1973: The Tablet, 15 September
  • "A Tribute to Tolkien" (Robert Murray)
• 1977: Margaret M. Leyland
• 1977: British Book News (June 1977)
  • "Remembering Tolkien and Lewis" (Anthony Curtis)
• 1979: J.R.R. Tolkien: Scholar and Storyteller
  • "The Man and the Scholar - A reminiscence" (S.T.R.O. d'Ardenne)
• 1979: Notes and Queries, Volume 26 Issue 3
  • "Reviews" (by B.D.H. Miller)
• 1980: Amon Hen 44
  • "Recollections" (by Roger Lancelyn Green)
• 1980: Minas Tirith Evening-Star 9, no. 2 (January 1980), pp. 16-17
  • "A Dialogue: Discussion by Humphrey Carpenter, Professor George Sayer and Dr. Clyde S. Kilby; recorded Sept. 29, 1979, Wheaton, Illinois"
• 1981: "Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) John Boorman
• 1983: "The Inklings Archives 2: Facets of Tolkien
• 1983: New York Times (September 4)
  • "Middle Earth Revisited" [Includes reminiscence by Mr. Ballantine]
• 1987: Foreword (by Christopher Tolkien) to The Hobbit 50th Anniversary edition)
• 1988: Amon Hen 91
  • “‘Tolkien Reconsidered’: A Talk by Humphrey Carpenter Given at the Cheltenham Literary Festival,”
• 1989: BBC Radio 4, 20 January,
  • Program "To Keep the Memory Green" Humphrey Carpenter looks at the Tolkien Society
• 1989: "Minas Tirith Evening Star, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 5-9"
  • "An Interview with Michael Tolkien"Union Lake", by Gary Hunnewell
• 1990: Mythlore 64
  • "Professor J.R.R. Tolkien: A Personal Memoir", by Robert Havard
• 1992: The Brown Book (December)
  • "Memories of J.R.R. Tolkien in His Centenary Year" (pp. 12-14; Priscilla Tolkien)
• 1993: Angerthas 34 (July)
  • "J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Tolkien's Stay in Staffordshire 1916, 1917 and 1918" (pp. 4-5) (Priscilla Tolkien)
• 1994: Tygodnik Powszechny, nr 14
  • "Oksfordzcy mistrzowie wyobraźni" ["Oxfordian Masters of Imagination"; interview with Przemyslaw Mroczkowski conducted by Tomasz Fiałkowskim] (for more info on the contents of the interview, see Przemyslaw Mroczkowski)
• 1995: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
  • Section 1: Recollection and Remembrance
    • "Reminiscences: Oxford in 1920, Meeting Tolkien and Becoming an Author at 77" (Vera Chapman)
    • "Tolkien Centenary Banquet Address" (Glen H. Goodknight)
    • "Sermon at Thanksgiving Service, Keble College Chapel, 23rd August 1992" (Robert Murray)
    • "Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien" (George Sayer)
    • "Publishing Tolkien" (Rayner Unwin)
• 1996: Independent, 4 December
  • "John Walsh meets Sister Wendy Beckett"
• 1997: apittman.com
  • "Saving the final appearancea visit with Owen Barfield a few months before his death" by Allen Pittman
• 1998: Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees" issue 6
  • ...asked many times - and it still suprises me - "Did you know your grandfather?", presented by Joanna Tolkien. Shrewsbury, 16 April 1994.
• 1999: TheOnering.net, December 17,
  • "Chance Meeting…"
• 1999: Morgunblaðið, February 28 (Icelandic newspaper)
  • [In an article, Linda Ásdísardóttir interviews 89-year-old Arndís Þorbjarnardóttir who had been an au-pair in the Tolkien household while J.R.R. Tolkien was writing The Hobbit.]
• 1999: Tolkien: A Celebration: Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy
  • "Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien" (George Sayer)
  • "Tolkien and С. S. Lewis: An Interview with Walter Hooper"
• 2000: Theonering.net, 18 August,
  • "Radio New Zealand interviewed Humphrey Carpenter
• 2001: The Sunday Times Magazine, 25 November
  • “Our Brief Encounter,” by Humphrey Carpenter
• 2001: Telegraph, 4 December
  • "We talked of love, death and fairy tales" (Bill Cater)
• 2001: Christopherleeweb
  • "Interview with Christopher Lee" (Christopher Lee)
• 2001: Watford Observer, 14 December
  • "Related to Tolkien" (Sandra Carter; interview with Julian Tolkien)
• 2001: The Guardian, 14 December
  • "So, would Tolkien have liked the film?"
• 2002: Bilbo's Farewell Song, 26 August
  • "Pauline Baynes"
• 2002: Chesterton Review February , Volume 28, Issue 1/2, Pp 119-123
  • "Tolkien, the Ring, and I " by Peter Milward
• 2003: The Mail,23 Febuary
  • "My first recollection of My Grandfather" by Simon Tolkien
• 2003: BBC.co.uk", 27 March
  • "Wrestling with an angel"
• 2003: ctlibrary.com"
  • "Meeting Professor Tolkien by Clyde S. Kilby
• 2004: Moorcock's Miscellany (website), 19 May
  • "Meeting Tolkien"
• 2006: Andwerve, 08 January
  • "Connecting with History - An Interview with Barbara Remington"
• 2007: Last book Tolkien signed before he died on auction by Bonhams
  • "[1]"
• 2008: Amon Hen 209
  • "Some Family Connections with J.R.R. Tolkien" (B.S. Benedikz; pp. 11-3)
• 2008: Amon Hen 212
  • "Best wishes from Thorin and Company" Marco di Noia
• 2008: Thekindlings website
  • "Thekindlings podcast interview with George Sayer"
• 2008: thecuttingedgenews.com
  • "What Tolkien Taught Me about the Battle of the Somme"
• 2009: Telegraph, 8 May
  • "Culture Clinic: Sister Wendy Beckett" (interview with Sister Wendy Beckett)
• 2009: Examiner, 26 October
  • "Recollections on life with C.S. Lewis: an interview with Walter Hooper"
• 2010: Mallorn 50, "The Tolkien Society - the early days" by Charles E. Noad.
• 2010: festivalartandbooks.com
  • "Interview with Philip Smith
• 2010: Huffington Post, 26 April
  • "In My Grandfather's Footsteps" (Simon Tolkien)
• 2010: wamc.org 18 may,
  • "Audio Interview with Simon Tolkien
• 2010: Mythprint (June issue, Vol. 47, No. 6, #335, on pp. 3–4)
  • "Interview with Simon Tolkien" (by Jason Fisher)
• 2010: Oxford Today Volume 22 No 2, Hilary 2010
  • "A Python's progress" (interview with Terry Jones)
• 2011: The Independent, 6 March
  • "How We Met: Caradoc King & Philip Pullman" (interviews by Adam Jacques)
• 2012:mymiddleearth.com, 25 March
  • "Meeting Colin Havard: An Inkling’s Son"
• 2012: The Saga of Hrolf Kraki
  • Foreword (by Priscilla Tolkien)
• 2012: The Guardian, 03 September
  • "From the archive, 3 September 1973: Hobbit and Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien dies"
• 2012: staustinreview.com, september
  • "Tolkien, Lewis and the Queen of Christendom by Peter Milward
• 2012: Times of Malta, 24 December
  • "A quest for The Hobbit" (by Kristina Chetcuti).(interview with Charles Calleja)
• 2013: BBC News, 21 March 2013
  • "Did Gollum get his name from a cave in the Irish Burren?" (by Nuala McCann). [Includes reminiscence attributed to Rose MacNamara].
• 2013: Mallorn 54
  • "A Recollection of Tolkien: Canon Gerard Hanlon" (eds, Daniel Helen and Morgan Thomsen)
• 2013: The Morrisian (blog)
  • "The Morrisian Interview Series, #2: John J. Walsdorf" (12 April 2013)
• 2013: The Independent, 22 November
  • "C.S.Lewis: in the shadows of JFK's death..."
• 2014: goodreads.com
  • "Under the shadow of the Ring: my writing beginnings" by Paula Coston
• 2014: The Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1
  • "C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as I knew them (Never Well)" by Eric Stanley.
• 2015: theimaginativeconservative.org
  • "Sir Martin Gilbert and the Inklings" by Bradley J. Birzer

Recordings

• 2011: BBC Radio 4, 25 November
  • "Interview with Robert Hardy
• 2012: The Hobbit, the Musical, radio programme (London: BBC, 2012)
  • Featuring a recollection by Paul Drayton of his and Humphrey Carpenter's meeting with Tolkien in 1967 to get permission for The Hobbit (1967 stage adaptation).
• 2012: Sister Wendy Beckett, radio programme (London: BBC, 2012) Desert Island Disc
• 2013: Beyond Belief, radio programme (London: BBC, 2013) Robert Hardy
• 2014: Men @ Work with Michael Tolkien, 11 October
  • "Interview with Michael Tolkien"

Videos

Recollections by:

• Leslie Megahey talks about “Tolkien in Oxford” at tolkiensociety.org
• 2011: BBC Radio Oxford's Phil Gayle speaks to Robert Hardy
• Douglas Gresham Remembers meeting J.R.R. Tolkien
• Douglas Gresham - Liberty University Convocation
• Joseph Power
• Rose MacNamara (1)
• Rose MacNamara (2)
• Jeremy Prince
• Simon Tolkien (1)
• Simon Tolkien (2)
• Simon Tolkien (3)
• Simon Tolkien (4)
• Simon Tolkien (5)
• Simon Tolkien (6)

Other

• Tolkien Calendar 2015: The text accompanying June, 'The Inn at Bree', contains a recollection by the artist Mary Fairburn.