J.R.R. Tolkien

Analyses & Commentary

• race, Orcs, Haradrim, Easterlings
• women, missing entwives, scarce dwarvish women, elven queens, Valier, and others
• Eowyn
• Galadriel, Celebrían, Arwen, Nimrodel, Mithrellas, Elwing
• Varda, Yavanna, Nienna, Este, Vaire, Vana, Nessa

Bibliographies

Tolkien Bibliography

• The Hobbit (1937)
• The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955)
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • The Two Towers
  • The Return of the King

• Peter Jackson's film trilogy of The Lord of the Rings

Feminist, Subaltern, Critical Reworkings

• Mary Gentle, Grunts! (1992)
• Pat Murphy, There and Back Again (2000)
• Jacqueline Carey, Banewreaker (2005) and GodSlayer (2005) (Volumes 1 and 2, respectively, of The Sundering (series))

Feminist, Subaltern Critiques & Analyses

a draft list; haven't read this; not sure of actual content & basing just on title

• Bigger, Andreas. "Love Song of the Dark Lord: Some Musings on the Reception of Tolkien in an Indian Context," in Root and Branch, ed. Honegger, 165-179
• Craig, David M. "’Queer Lodgings’: gender and sexuality in The Lord of the Rings." Mallorn 35 (1997): 11-18.
• Doughan, David. "An Ethnically Cleansed Faëry?" Tolkien and the Matter of Britain." Mallorn 32 (1995): 21-24.
• Doughan, David. "Tolkien, Sayers, Sex and Gender," in Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, ed. Reynolds and GoodKnight, 356-59.
• Fenwick, Mac. "Breastplates of Silk: Homeric Women in The Lord of the Rings." Mythlore 21 (1996): 17-23, 50.
• Fredrick, Candice and Sam McBride. Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001.
• Hopkins, Lisa. "Female Authority Figures in the Works of Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams," in Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, ed. Reynolds and GoodKnight, 364-66.
• Lewis, Alex and Elizabeth Currie. The Uncharted Realms of Tolkien. Wimbledon: Medea Publishing, 2002. Includes three chapters on the "Realms of Gender".
• Ringel, Faye. "Woman Fantasists: In the Shadow of the Ring," in J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-Earth, ed. George Clark and Daniel Timmons. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000. (pp. 159-71).

External Links

• Thevina, Does Gender Matter? Women, Tolkien, and the Online Fanfiction Community. FanFic symposium.

• The Thain's Book, An encyclopedia of Middle-earth in the Third Age