Tolkien's Legendarium

Tolkien's Legendarium
Author	Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter, editors
Publisher	Greenwood Press
Released	January 30th, 2000
Format	Hardcover
Pages	296
ISBN	0313305307

Tolkien's Legendarium is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter on the History of Middle-earth series of books relating to the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, compiled and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien. It was published by Greenwood Press in 2000.

It includes a bibliography of works by Christopher Tolkien compiled by Douglas A. Anderson.

Tolkien's Legendarium won the 2002 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.

Contents

• Part I — The History
  • Rayner Unwin — "Early Days of Elder Days"
  • Christina Scull — "The Development of Tolkien's Legendarium: Some Threads in the Tapestry of Middle-earth"
  • Wayne G. Hammond — "'A Continuing and Evolving Creation': Distractions in the Later History of Middle-earth"
  • Charles Noad — "On the Construction of 'The Silmarillion'"
  • David Bratman — "The Literary Value of The History of Middle-earth"
• Part II — The Languages
  • Christopher Gilson — "Gnomish Is Sindarin: The Conceptual Evolution of an Elvish Language"
  • Arden R. Smith — "Certhas, Skirditaila, Futhark: A Feigned History of Runic Origins"
  • Patrick Wynne and Carl F. Hostetter — "Three Elvish Verse Modes: Ann-thennath, Minlamad thent / estent, and Linnod"
• Part III — The Cauldron and the Cook
  • Joe R. Christopher — "Tolkien's Lyric Poetry"
  • Paul Edmund Thomas — "Some of Tolkien's Narrators"
  • Verlyn Flieger — "The Footsteps of Ælfwine"
  • John Rateliff — "The Lost Road, The Dark Tower, and The Notion Club Papers: Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad"
  • Marjorie Burns — "Gandalf and Odin"
  • Richard C. West — "Túrin's Ofermod: An Old English Theme in the Development of the Story of Túrin"
• Appendix
  • Douglas A. Anderson — "Christopher Tolkien: A Bibliography"

External links

• A detailed description on Elvish.org