Works to be Cited
Topic: Tolkien Poetry
Caesar, J. “Tolkien’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS and Dante’s INFERNO.” The Explicator. 64. 3 (2006): 162–165. Compares the two styles of prose and common motifs.
Carl Phelpstead. “With chunks of poetry in between”: The Lord of the Rings and Saga Poetics. Tolkien Studies 5 (2008): 23–38. Project MUSE. West Virginia Press, Eberly, VA. 17 Sep. 2008 <http://muse.jhu.edu/>. Explains the sources Tolkien drew from including Old Norse-Icelandic literature, also breaks down the type of lines used in Tolkien’s poems.
Fleiger, Verlyn F., and Carl Hosetter. “Tolkien’s Legendarium : Essays on the History of Middle-Earth”. New York: Greenwood P, 2000. Collection of essays specifically interested in Tolkien’s lyric poetry by Joe R. Christopher
Honegger, Thomas. “Reconsidering Tolkien”. New York, NY: Walking Tree, 2005. One of the essays out of The Lord of the Rings in the Wake of the Great War: War, Poetry, Modernism, and Ironic Myth
Issacs, Neil D., and Rose A. Zimbardo. “Tolkien and the critics; essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” 3rd ed. Norte Dame, IN: Norte Dame P, 1968. Contains Essay The poetry of fantasy: verse in The lord of the rings by Mary Quella Kelly
Jorgensen, Estelle R. “Myth, Song, and Music Education: The Case of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Swann’s The Road Goes Ever On.” Journal of Aesthetic Education. 40. 3 (2006): 1–21. Discusses Oral traditions and their importance to the overall teachings of good and evil.
Le Guin, Ursula K. “The Wave in the Mind : Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”. Minneapolis: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated, 2004. Contains two essays about poetry and prose
Luck, Georg, and Karl Galinsky. “Perspectives of Roman poetry; a classics symposium.” Austin, TX: University of Texas P, 1974. Essay Some tress in Virgil and Tolkien / Kenneth J. Reckford
Rosebury, Brian. “Tolkien : A Cultural Phenomenon”. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan Limited, 2003. Analysis of four poem of Tolkien’s
Shippey, Tom. “The Road to Middle-Earth.” Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company Trade & Reference Division, 2003. Whole chapter on prose style.
