BEST BOOKS TO UNDERSTAND TOLKIEN

1
Tolkien: A Biography
by Humphrey Carpenter
2,780 members
22 reviews
4
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2
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
by Verlyn Flieger
273 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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3
On Fairy-Stories
by J. R. R. Tolkien
407 members
6 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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4
The Atlas of Middle-Earth
by Karen Wynn Fonstad
2,992 members
26 reviews
4.2
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5
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
by J. R. R. Tolkien
2,740 members
17 reviews
4.2
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6
Tree and Leaf
by J. R. R. Tolkien
533 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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7
J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth
by Bradley J. Birzer
265 members
5 reviews
4
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8
Smith of Wootton Major
by J. R. R. Tolkien
1,019 members
18 reviews
3.9
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9
The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
by Tom Shippey
905 members
12 reviews
4.1
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10
Farmer Giles of Ham
by J. R. R. Tolkien
1,798 members
22 reviews
3.8
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11
Tolkien: Man and Myth
by Joseph Pearce
320 members
2 reviews
3.8
Member
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12
The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings
by Peter Kreeft
371 members
6 reviews
4
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13
Tolkien: A Celebration : Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy
by Joseph Pearce
238 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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14
The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta and the Annals
by J. R. R. Tolkien
2,049 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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