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'''Janet Brennan Croft''' (b.[[1961]]) is an American author, editor, and Head of Access and Delivery Services, University Libraries at Rutgers University. She is the editor of ''[[Mythlore|Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature]]''.<ref>"Notes on Contributors" in [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 4]] (p. 366)</ref>


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==Bibliography, selected==
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*[[2005]]: [[Tolkien on Film|''Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings]] (editor)
*[[2005]]: [[Tolkien on Film|''Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings]] (editor)
*[[2007]]: ''[[Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language]]'' (editor)
*[[2007]]: ''[[Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language]]'' (editor)
*[[2014]]: ''[[Tolkien in the New Century|Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey]]'' (co-editor)
*[[2015]]: ''[[Perilous and Fair|Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life]]'' (co-editor)
===Articles===
===Articles===
*[[2002]]: ''Mythlore'', Volume 23 #4
**"The Great War and Tolkien's Memory: an examination of World War I themes in ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''" (pp. 4-21)
*[[2003]]: ''[[Mallorn (journal)|Mallorn]]'' 41 (July 2003)
**"'Reading ''Lord of the Rings'': The Final Attempt': an analysis of a web community" (pp. 26-33)
*[[2003]]: ''Proceedings of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations'' (SW/TEX PCA/ACA) Years 2000-2003
**"'The utter stupid waste of war': J.R.R. Tolkien on World War II"
**"The Mines of Moria: 'Anticipation' and 'Flattening' in Peter Jackson's ''The Fellowship of the Ring''"
*[[2004]]: ''World Literature Today'', January-April 2004
**"Beyond ''The Hobbit'': J.R.R. Tolkien's Other Works for Children" (pp. 67-70)
*[[2004]]: [[Mallorn (journal)|''Mallorn'']] 42 (August 2004)
**"The Morality of Military Leadership in J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''" (pp. 47-50)
*[[2004]]: ''[[Mythlore]]'' 92 (Summer/Fall 2004)
**"'The Young Perish and the Old Linger, Withering': World War II in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien" (pp. 58-71)
*[[2004]]: [[SEVEN 21|''SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review'', Volume 21]]
**"Bid the tree unfix his earth-bound root": Themes from ''Macbeth'' in ''The Lord of the Rings''" (pp. 47-60)
*[[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
*[[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
**"Farmer Giles of Ham", "Gríma (Wormtongue)", "Haigh, Walter E. (1856-1931)", "Merry", "Pippin", "Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc."
**"Farmer Giles of Ham", "Gríma (Wormtongue)", "Haigh, Walter E. (1856-1931)", "Merry", "Pippin", "Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.", "Shakespeare"
*[[2007]]: ''Fantasy Fiction Into Film'' (Ed. Leslie Stratyner and James R. Keller)
**"Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for ''The Lord of the Rings'' by Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle." (pp. 7-20)
*[[2007]]: ''[[Silver Leaves]]'', Issue 1
*[[2007]]: ''[[Silver Leaves]]'', Issue 1
**"How I Learned More About Hobbits"
**"How I Learned More About Hobbits"
*[[2007]]: ''[[Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language]]''
**"'Bid the Tree Unfix his Earth-bound Root': Themes from ''Macbeth'' in ''The Lord of the Rings''"
*[[2007]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 4]]
**"Notes and Documents: Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect" (pp. 184-188)
*[[2009]]: [[Mythlore 107/108|''Mythlore'' 107/108]], Volume 28, Issue 1/2
**"Naming the Evil One: Onomastic Strategies in Tolkien and Rowling" (pp. 149-164)
*[[2011]]: ''[[Mythlore]]'' 113/114, Volume 29, Issue 3/4
*[[2011]]: ''[[Mythlore]]'' 113/114, Volume 29, Issue 3/4
**"Túrin and Aragorn: Embracing and Evading Fate"
**"Túrin and Aragorn: Embracing and Evading Fate"
*[[2011]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 8|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 8]]
**"The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training Corps"
*[[2011]]: [[Picturing Tolkien|''Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings ''Film Trilogy'']]
**"Jackson's Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth"
*[[2012]]: [[Mallorn 53|''Mallorn'' 53]]
** "On the origin of ideas" (review of ''[[Tolkien and the Study of His Sources]]'')
*[[2014]]: [[Mythlore 124|''Mythlore'' 124]]
**"Tolkien’s Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions"
*[[2016]]: ''[[Journal of Tolkien Research]]'' (vol. 3, issue 1)
**"[http://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol3/iss1/2/ Bibliographic Resources for Literature Searches on J.R.R Tolkien]"
* [[2016]]: ''[[The Return Of The Ring: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012]]''
** "Tolkien's Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions"
*[[2018]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 15|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 15]]
**"Doors into Elf-mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien's Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords"
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Janet.B.Croft-1/ Home page]
*[https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/profile/janet-brennan_croft Home page]
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*[http://middle-earth.xenite.org/2011/10/14/an-interview-with-janet-brennan-croft/ An Interview with Janet Brennan Croft] by [[Michael Martinez]]
*[http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/movies/2013/01/06/Person-of-Interest-Janet-Brennan-Croft-Tolkien-scholar/stories/201301060230  Person of Interest: Janet Brennan Croft, Tolkien scholar]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDz3Hvn7i5U "British Fantasy literature & World War I"] at OK State Library.
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Janet Brennan Croft
Biographical information
Born1961

Janet Brennan Croft (b.1961) is an American author, editor, and Head of Access and Delivery Services, University Libraries at Rutgers University. She is the editor of Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature.[1]

Bibliography, selected

Books

Articles

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Notes on Contributors" in Tolkien Studies: Volume 4 (p. 366)
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