The Hobbit (For Further Study)

For Further Study

• David Day, in A Tolkien Bestiary, Random House, 1998, 286 p.

  Surveys the beasts, deities, and other creatures that exist in Middle-earth.

• Karen Wynn Fonstad, in The Atlas of Middle-earth, Houghton Mifflin, 1991, 210 p.

  Detailed maps of Middle-earth, including war and other thematic maps.

• Robert Foster, in A Guide to Middle-earth, Ballantine Books, 1974, 291 p.

  A directory to all the proper names appearing in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, and The Road Goes Ever On.

• Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo, in Tolkien and the Critics, University of Notre Dame Press, 1968, 296 p.

  A collection of essays analyzing Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, including contributions from C. S. Lewis and W. H. Auden.

• Paul H. Kocher, in Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1973, 247 p.

  A comprehensive study of Tolkien's major works.

• J. R. R. Tolkien, in The Tolkien Reader, Ballantine Books, Inc., 1974, 200 p.

  Contains some of Tolkien's lesser-known fiction and poetry.