User:Sigurd/Inspirations

This page is a list of books that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien, that is, books and other publications known to have inspired J.R.R. Tolkien.

List of books

• The Princess and the Goblin
• The Princess and Curtie by George MacDonald
• The Red fairy book by Andrew lang
• Stories for my Children by E.H. Knatchbull=Hugessen
• The Marvellous Land of Snergs
• Volsungasaga * procurar THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS translated by William morris
• Prose or younger edda
• Kalevala translated by W.F. Kirby
• The Black Douglas by S. R. Crockett
• The lost explorers: a tale of the trackless desert by Alexander macdonald
• Scoutingfor buller by Herbert hayens
• The house of the wolfing by William morris
• The life and death of Jason by William morris
• The Roots of the Mountains by William Morris

15. The Book of Wonder by Lord Dunsany

16. A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Lindsay

17. The Worm Ouroboros by Eric Rücker Eddison

18. Aprimer of the gothic language by joseph wright

19. Thefifth book of Thucydides -- greek version

20. Literaehumaniores

21. Afinish grammar by CNE eliot

22. Awelsh grammar by sir john morris jones

23. She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard

24. Beowulf

Further reading

• Douglas A. Anderson, "Library, Personal", in J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (pp. 361-2)