Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull, "The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Reader's Guide & Chronology".

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Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull,
The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Reader's Guide & Chronology.
Londra: Harper Collins, 2007

Su richiesta, sono comunque disponibili ad ordinarne altre copie e, dietro congruo compenso monetario, penso possano anche fornire indizi sulla persona malvagia ed egoista che si è accaparrata il libro per prima [fischietta tra sé e sé].

Insieme alla tanto discussa Tolkien Encyclopedia, il libro è considerato una delle opere critiche più importanti dell'anno ed è a cura della stessa coppia di studiosi già autori del The Lord of The Rings Reader's Companion (na serie di note al testo che fanno un po' da corrispettivo a ciò che Douglas A. Anderson ha fatto con Lo Hobbit annotato) e di J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator, uno dei pochi testi critici che affrontano la genesi, il significato e l'ispirazione delle opere grafiche di Tolkien.

Il Tolkien Companion si presenta sicuramente come un prodotto di un certo pregio: un cofanetto di due volumi rilegati con copertina rigida, ciascuno di 1.200 pagine circa ed in formato 23x15 cm: la Reader's Guide e la Chronology.
All'interno della Reader's Guide, con sovracopertina in nero e argento su oro, tutto ciò che avreste desiderato sapere su Tolkien ma non avete mai osato chiedere: in ordine alfabetico, tutte le sue pubblicazioni (dalla saggistica alla narrativa alle brevi poesie) e le loro vicende compositive ed editoriali, i luoghi e le persone con cui ha avuto contatti nella sua vita.
La Chronology, con copertina in nero e oro su argento, contiene una curatissima ed imponente cronologia della vita e delle opere di Tolkien.
In poche parole, uno strumento critico fondamentale sia per l'appassionato che per chiunque a sua volta si dedichi allo studio e alla critica letteraria del grande autore, in Inghilterra già oggetto di studi universitari da molti anni.

Indice
Reader's Guide

• Preface
• Abercrombie, Lascelles 1
• Ace Books controversy 1
• Acocks Green (Warwickshire) 7
• Acta Senatus 8
• Adaptations 8
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil 23
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book 25
• Ae Adar Nín: The Lord’s Prayer in Sindarin 28
• Ainulindalë 28
• Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor 33
• Alcar mi Tarmenel na Erun: The Gloria in Excelsis Deo in Quenya 34
• Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner’s Wife 34
• Aldershot (Hampshire) 37
• Allegory 37
• Aman 41
• Ambarkanta: The Shape of the World 42
• ‘Analysis of fragments of other languages found in The Lord of the Rings’ 43
• Ancrene Riwle 44
• Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad 49
• Annals of Beleriand 49
• Annals of Valinor 51
• Appearance 52
• An Application for the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford by J.R.R. Tolkien, Professor of the English Language in the University of Leeds, June 25, 1925 53
• Art 53
• Arthur and the Matter of Britain 56
• Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth 60
• Atlantis 66
• Attacks of Taste 69
• Auden, Wystan Hugh 69
• ‘Of Aulë and Yavanna’ 71
• Barfield, Arthur Owen 72
• Barnsley, Thomas Kenneth 74
• Barnt Green (Worcestershire) 75
• Barrowclough, Sidney 75
• The Battle of the Eastern Field 75
• The Battles of the Fords of Isen 76
• Baynes, Pauline Diana 76
• Bedford (Bedfordshire) 77
• ‘Of the Beginning of Days’ 78
• ‘Of Beleriand and Its Realms’ 82
• Belgium 82
• Bennett, Henry Stanley 83
• Bennett, Jack Arthur Walter 83
• Beowulf 84
• Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics 86
• ‘Of Beren and Lúthien’ 93
• Berkshire 104
• Bibliographies 104
• The Bidding of the Minstrel, from the Lay of Eärendel 106
• Bilbo’s Last Song (at the Grey Havens) 107
• Biographies 108
• Birmingham and environs 115
• Birmingham Oratory 117
• Blackwell, Basil Henry 118
• Bliss, Alan Joseph 118
• Bombadil Goes Boating 119
• The Book of Lost Tales 120
• The Book of Lost Tales, Part One 136
• The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two 137
• Bournemouth (Hampshire) 137
• Bradley, Henry 138
• Braunholtz, Gustav Ernst Karl 139
• Brett-Smith, Herbert Francis Brett 139
• Brewerton, George 140
• Brogan, Denis Hugh Vercingetorix 140
• Brookes-Smith family 141
• Bryson, John Norman 142
• Burchfield, Robert William 142
• Calligraphy 143
• Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) 144
• Campbell, Alistair 145
• Campbell, Ignatius Roy Dunnachie 146
• Carr, Charlie 147
• Carter, Douglas 147
• Cat 147
• Cecil, Edward Christian David Gascoyne 147
• Celtic influences 148
• Chambers, Raymond Wilson 152
• Chandler, Pamela 153
• Chaucer, Geoffrey 153
• Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve’s Tale 156
• Cheddar Gorge and Caves (Somerset) 157
• Cheltenham (Gloucestershire) 157
• Chesterton, Gilbert Keith 158
• Childe, Wilfred Rowland Mary 160
• Children 160
• The Children of Húrin [= The Lay of the Children of Húrin] 167
• Círdan 171
• Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan 172
• The City of the Gods 173
• Classical influences 173
• The Clerke’s Compleinte 176
• Clevedon (Somerset) 177
• Coghill, Nevill Henry Kendal Aylmer 177
• Collecting and sales 178
• ‘Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor’ 179
• ‘Of the Coming of Men into the West’ 184
• The Converse of Manwë and Eru 188
• Cornwall 189
• Corrected Names of Chief Valar 190
• Craigie, William Alexander 190
• The Creatures of the Earth 191
• Criticism 191
• Cromer (Norfolk) 199
• Cuivienyarna 199
• Cullis, Colin 199
• Dagnall, Margery Kathleen Mary, known as Susan 200
• Dangweth Pengoloð 200
• Darbishire, Helen 201
• D’Arcy, Martin Cyril 201
• D’Ardenne, Simonne Rosalie Thérèse Odile 202
• ‘Of the Darkening of Valinor’ 204
• Davis, Norman 207
• Dawkins, Richard MacGillivray 208
• Day, Mabel 208
• A Description of the Island of Númenor 208
• The Devil’s Coach-horses 209
• The Disaster of the Gladden Fields 209
• Disney Studio 210
• Dobson, Eric John 211
• Domestic duties 211
• Doworst 214
• The Dragon’s Visit 214
• Dragons 215
• Drama 222
• The Drowning of Anadûnê 228
• Dundas-Grant, James Harold 229
• Of Dwarves and Men 229
• Dyson, Henry Victor Dyson 231
• Éalá Éarendel Engla Beorhtast 233
• Earendel at the Helm 234
• ‘Early Chart of Names’ 234
• ‘Early Noldorin Grammar’ 235
• ‘Early Qenya Pronouns’ 235
• Earp, Thomas Wade 235
• Eddison, Eric Rucker 236
• ‘Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië’ 237
• Eldarin Hands, Fingers & Numerals 242
• ‘Elvish Reincarnation’ 243
• Elvish Song in Rivendell 243
• Emery, Augustine 244
• The End of the Third Age: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part IV 244
• England 244
• English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday 248
• English and Welsh 248
• English language 251
• ‘English–Qenya Dictionary’ 252
• Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo 252
• Of the Ents and the Eagles 252
• Environment 253
• Eriol and Ælfwine 258
• Errantry 262
• Escape 264
• Etymologies 266
• Eucatastrophe 267
• An Evening in Tavrobel 268
• Everett, Dorothy 269
• Examinations 269
• Fairford (Gloucestershire) 272
• Fairy-stories 272
• The Fall 280
• The Fall of Númenor 283
• Fandom 284
• Farmer Giles of Ham 288
• Farnell, Lewis Richard 294
• Farrer, Katharine Dorothy 295
• Fastitocalon 295
• The ‘Father Christmas’ letters 297
• ‘Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor’ 300
• ‘Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad’ 303
• Filey (Yorkshire) 307
• Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode 308
• Firth, Charles Harding 312
• The Five Wizards 312
• Fletcher, Ronald Frank William 313
• ‘Flight of the Gnomes’ 313
• The Flight of the Noldoli from Valinor 313
• ‘Of the Flight of the Noldor’ 314
• Folkestone (Kent) 320
• Food and drink 320
• For W.H.A. 321
• A Fourteenth-Century Romance 321
• Fox, Adam 322
• France 322
• Fraser, John 323
• Free will and Fate 324
• From the Many-Willow’d Margin of the Immemorial Thames 333
• Gale, St Teresa 333
• Gardner, Helen Louise 334
• Gedling (Nottinghamshire) 334
• ‘Gerald of Wales on the Survival of Welsh’ 335
• Gilson, Robert Cary 335
• Gilson, Robert Quilter 336
• Glip 337
• Glorfindel 337
• ‘The Gnomes Come to the Great Lands’ 338
• Gnomish Grammar 338
• Gnomish Lexicon 339
• Goblin Feet 340
• Gollins, Annie 341
• Good and Evil 341
• Gordon, Eric Valentine 346
• Gordon, George Stuart 347
• Grahame, Kenneth 350
• Great Haywood (Staffordshire) 351
• Green, Roger Gilbert Lancelyn 352
• The Grey Bridge of Tavrobel 353
• Griffiths, Mary Elaine 353
• Grove, Jennie 354
• Habbanan beneath the Stars 355
• Haggard, Henry Rider 355
• Halsbury, John Anthony Hardinge Giffard, Earl of 358
• The Happy Mariners 359
• Hardie, Colin Graham 360
• Harrogate (Yorkshire) 360
• Havard, Robert Emlyn 360
• Health 361
• The Heirs of Elendil 365
• ‘Heraldic Devices of Tol Erethrin’ 365
• Hill, Margaret Joy 366
• Historical and cultural influences 368
• The History of Galadriel and Celeborn and of Amroth King of Lórien 372
• The History of Middle-earth 378
• The History of The Lord of the Rings 383
• The Hoard 383
• The Hobbit 384
• Holy Maidenhood 405
• The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son 406
• Hope and Despair 410
• The Horns of Ylmir 415
• Hove (Sussex) 416
• The Hunt for the Ring 416
• Illustration 418
• Imram 423
• Incledon family 424
• ‘Index of Names for The Lay of the Children of Húrin’ 425
• The Inklings 425
• Ireland, Republic of (Eire) 431
• The Istari 432
• Italy 434
• ‘Iþþlen’ in Sawles Warde 436
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator 436
• Jennings, Elizabeth Joan 436
• The Jerusalem Bible 437
• Jones, Gwyn 439
• Kalevala 440
• Katherine Group 446
• Ker, Neil Ripley 447
• King Edward’s School, Birmingham 447
• Lancashire Fusiliers 451
• Lang, Andrew 455
• Languages 460
• Languages, Invented 475
• Lascelles, Mary Madge 482
• The Last Ark 482
• The Last Ship 483
• Laws and Customs among the Eldar 483
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun 486
• ‘Lay of Eärendel’ 487
• Lay of Leithian 488
• The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin 491
• The Lays of Beleriand 492
• Lea, Kathleen Marguerite 493
• Leaf by Niggle 494
• Leeds (Yorkshire) 498
• Leeds, University of 499
• Leeds University Verse, 1914–24 503
• Of Lembas 503
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien 503
• Lewis, Clive Staples 504
• Lewis, Warren Hamilton 511
• The Lhammas 512
• Libraries and archives 513
• Light 517
• Light as Leaf on Lindentree 522
• Lincoln (Lincolnshire) 523
• The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor 523
• The Little House of Lost Play: Mar Vanwa Tyaliéva 523
• London 524
• The Lonely Isle 525
• The Lord of the Rings 526
• Loss 555
• The Lost Road 558
• The Lost Road and Other Writings 565
• Lyme Regis (Dorset) 566
• McCallum, Ronald Buchanan 566
• MacDonald, George 567
• McFarlane, Kenneth Bruce 571
• Madlener, Josef 571
• ‘Of Maeglin’ 572
• Of Maeglin: Sister-son of Turgon, King of Gondolin 575
• Magic 575
• Malvern (Worcestershire) 578
• The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon 579
• The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late 581
• MS. Bodley 34: A Re-Collation of a Collation 581
• Masefield, John Edward 582
• ‘Matar and Tulir’ 582
• Mathew, Anthony Gervase 582
• Melkor Morgoth 583
• ‘Of Men’ 584
• The Mewlips 585
• Middle English ‘Losenger’ 586
• A Middle English Vocabulary 586
• Milford-on-Sea (Hampshire) 589
• Mills, Stella Marie 590
• Mr. Bliss 590
• Mitchison, Naomi Mary Margaret 592
• The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays 593
• Morgan, Francis Xavier 594
• Morgoth’s Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One: The Legends of Aman 595
• Morris, William 598
• Mortality and Immortality 604
• Murray, Robert Patrick Ruthven 614
• Music 615
• Mythopoeia 620
• ‘Name-list to The Fall of Gondolin’ 622
• The Name ‘Nodens’ 622
• The Nameless Land 623
• Names 624
• Names and Required Alterations 627
• ‘Names of the Valar’ 627
• Napier, Arthur Sampson 627
• Narn i Chîn Húrin 628
• Narqelion 630
• Nature 631
• Neave, Emily Jane 637
• Nesbit, Edith 638
• Netherlands 640
• A New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District 640
• The New Shadow 641
• Newby, Percy Howard 642
• Nichol Smith, David 643
• Nieninque 643
• ‘Of the Noldor in Beleriand’ 644
• ‘Noldorin Dictionary’ 646
• ‘Noldorin Word-lists’ 646
• Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings 647
• A Northern Venture 649
• Northernness 649
• Notes on Motives in the Silmarillion 656
• Notes on Óre 657
• The Notion Club Papers 657
• Númenor 665
• Númenórean Linear Measures 679
• Official Name List 680
• The Old English Apollonius of Tyre 680
• The Old English Exodus 681
• Oliphaunt 682
• On Fairy-Stories 683
• Once upon a Time 689
• Onions, Charles Talbut 689
• Orcs 690
• Otley (Yorkshire) 693
• ‘Otsan and Kainendan’ 693
• Over Old Hills and Far Away 693
• Oxford and environs 693
• Oxford, University of 713
• Oxford English Dictionary 725
• Oxford English Monographs 727
• Oxford English School 728
• The Oxford English School 744
• Oxford Letter 746
• The Palantíri 746
• Payton, Ralph S. 747
• Payton, Wilfrid Hugh 747
• Pearl 747
• The Peoples of Middle-earth 753
• Perry-the-Winkle 754
• Philology 754
• Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien 760
• Pity and Mercy 760
• Poems and Stories 765
• The Poetic and Mythologic Words of Eldarissa 765
• Poetry 766
• Political thought 771
• Poole (Dorset) 775
• Possessiveness 776
• Power 778
• Prefatory Remarks on Prose Translation of ‘Beowulf’ 782
• Prejudice and Racism 785
• Princess Mee 794
• The Princess Ní 794
• The Problem of Ros 795
• Progress in Bimble Town 795
• Publishers 796
• Qenya: Descriptive Grammar of the Qenya Language 798
• The Qenya Verb Forms 799
• Qenyaqetsa 799
• Quantock Hills (Somerset) 800
• Quendi and Eldar 800
• Quenta Noldorinwa 801
• Quenta Silmarillion 802
• ‘Quenta Silmarillion’ 806
• Quest 806
• The Quest of Erebor 810
• Raleigh, Walter Alexander 813
• Ransome, Arthur Michell 813
• Reade, Francis Vincent 814
• Reading 814
• Recordings 822
• Recovery 824
• Rednal (Worcestershire) 826
• The Reeve’s Tale 826
• Reincarnation of Elves 827
• Religion 828
• Research v. Literature 840
• ‘Of the Return of the Noldor’ 841
• The Return of the Shadow: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part One 845
• Reynolds, Richard William 847
• Rice-Oxley, Leonard 848
• Ridley, Maurice Roy 848
• Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age 849
• The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor 852
• The Road 854
• The Road Goes Ever On: A Song Cycle 855
• Roverandom 858
• ‘Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin’ 861
• ‘Of the Ruin of Doriath’ 866
• Salu, Mary Bertha 873
• Sarehole (Warwickshire) 873
• Sauron Defeated: The End of the Third Age (The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Four); The Notion Club Papers and The Drowning of Anadûnê 875
• Sayer, George Sydney Benedict 876
• Science 876
• Scotland 878
• The Sea 878
• The Sea-Bell 881
• A Secret Vice 882
• Shadow-Bride 884
• The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, The Ambarkanta and the Annals Together with the Earliest ‘Silmarillion’ and the First Map 884
• The Shibboleth of Fëanor 885
• The Shores of Faery 887
• ‘Sí Qente Feanor’ 888
• Sidmouth (Devon) 888
• Sigelwara Land 889
• ‘The Silmarillion’ 890
• The Silmarillion 906
• ‘Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor’ 917
• Simpson, Percy 920
• ‘Of the Sindar’ 921
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 924
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo 930
• Sir Orfeo 933
• Sisam, Kenneth 935
• Sketch of the Mythology 936
• Smith, Albert Hugh 937
• Smith, Geoffrey Bache 938
• Smith of Wootton Major 942
• Smithers, Geoffrey Victor 950
• Smoking 951
• Societies and clubs 951
• Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography 967
• A Song of Aryador 967
• Songs for the Philologists 967
• Source-hunting 969
• South Africa 970
• Spiders 973
• Sports 976
• Staffordshire 977
• Stevens, Courtenay Edward 980
• Stewart, John Innes Mackintosh 980
• The Stone Troll 981
• Stonyhurst (Lancashire) 981
• Sub-creation 982
• Suffield family 984
• ‘Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor’ 986
• Sun The Trees Silmarils 990
• Swann, Donald Ibrahim 990
• Switzerland 992
• ‘Synopsis of Pengoloð’s Eldarinwe Leperi are Notessi’ 995
• Tal-Elmar 995
• The Tale of Years 996
• Tales and Songs of Bimble Bay 997
• Tales from the Perilous Realm 998
• T.C.B.S. 998
• ‘Of Thingol and Melian’ 1004
• Thompson, William Meredith 1006
• Tidworth (Wiltshire) 1007
• Tinfang Warble 1007
• Tolkien family 1008
• Tolkien, Arthur Reuel 1009
• Tolkien, Christopher Reuel 1010
• Tolkien, Edith Mary 1012
• Tolkien, Hilary Arthur Reuel 1016
• Tolkien, John Francis Reuel 1017
• Tolkien, Mabel 1018
• Tolkien, Michael Hilary Reuel 1020
• Tolkien, Priscilla Mary Reuel 1021
• Tolkien on Tolkien 1022
• The Tolkien Reader 1024
• The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow 1024
• Translations 1025
• Travel and transport 1038
• The Treason of Isengard: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Two 1042
• Tree and Leaf 1043
• The Trees of Kortirion 1044
• Trought, Vincent 1045
• Of Tuor and His Coming to Gondolin 1046
• ‘Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin’ 1047
• ‘Of Túrin Turambar’ 1053
• Turlin and the Exiles of Gondolin 1063
• Turville-Petre, Edward Oswald Gabriel 1064
• Turville-Petre, Joan Elizabeth 1064
• Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth 1065
• Unwin, Rayner Stephens 1067
• Unwin, Stanley 1069
• Valaquenta 1071
• Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford 1074
• ‘Variation D/L in Common Eldarin’ 1076
• ‘Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath’ 1076
• Wade-Gery, Henry Theodore 1082
• Wain, John Barrington 1083
• Waldman, Milton 1084
• Wales 1085
• The Wanderings of Húrin 1085
• War 1089
• The War of the Jewels: The Later Silmarillion, Part Two:
• The Legends of Beleriand 1097
• The War of the Ring: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Three 1097
• Wardale, Edith Elizabeth 1098
• Warwick (Warwickshire) 1099
• West Midlands 1099
• Weston-super-Mare (Somerset) 1101
• Whitby (Yorkshire)1101
• Whitelock, Dorothy 1101
• Wilkinson, Cyril Hackett 1102
• Williams, Charles Walter Stansby 1102
• Wilson, Frank Percy 1105
• Wiseman, Christopher Luke 1105
• Women and marriage 1107
• ‘Words of Joy’ 1123
• Wrenn, Charles Leslie 1123
• Wright, Joseph 1125
• Writing systems 1126
• Wyke-Smith, Edward Augustine 1130
• Wyld, Henry Cecil Kennedy 1132
• The Year’s Work in English Studies 1133
• Yorkshire 1134