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The Music of The Lord of the Rings
The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films

Adams, Doug
(Alfred Music, hardcover)

Tales Before Tolkien
Tales Before Tolkien: The Roots of Modern Fantasy

Anderson, Douglas Ed.
(Del Rey, paperback)

The Inklings
The Inklings

Carpenter, Humphrey
(Harper Collins, paperback)

J.R.R.Tolkien A Biography
J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

Carpenter, Humphrey
(William Morrow, paperback)

The Letters of J.R.R.Tolkien
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Revised & Expanded

Carpenter, Humphrey Ed.
(William Morrow, hardcover)

The Letters of JRR Tolkien
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Carpenter, Humphrey Ed.
(William Morrow, paperback)

J.R.R. Tolkien for Kids
J.R.R. Tolkien for Kids

Carr, Simonetta
(Chicago Review Press, paperback)

J.R.R.Tolkien Encylopedia
J.R.R. Tolkien Encylopedia: Scholarship & Critical Assessment

Drout, Michael D. Ed.
(Routledge, paperback)

Tolkien
Tolkien

Edwards, Raymond
(Robert Hale, hardcover)

A Secret Vice
A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

Fimi, Dimitra & Higgins, Andrew Eds.
(Harper Collins, hardcover)

Tolkien, Race & Cultural History
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits

Fimi, Dimitra
(Palgrave Macmillan, paperback)

Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays

Fisher, Jason Ed.
(McFarland, paperback)

Splintered Light
Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World

Flieger, Verlyn
(Kent State University Press, paperback)

Green Suns & Faerie
Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien 

Flieger, Verlyn
(Kent State University Press, paperback)

Interrupted Music - The Making of Tolkien's Mythology
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology

Flieger, Verlyn
(Kent State University Press, paperback)

A Question of Time
A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Road to Faërie

Flieger, Verlyn
(Kent State University Press, paperback)

There Would Always be a Fairy Tale
There Would Always be a Fairy-tale: More Essays on Tolkien

Flieger, Verlyn
(Kent State University Press, paperback)

The Atlas of Middle-earth
The Atlas of Middle-earth (Revised Edition)

Fonstad, Karen Wynn
(Houghton Mifflin, paperback)

The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth

Foster, Robert
(Harper Collins, hardcover)

Complete Guide to Middle-earth
The Complete Guide to Middle-earth (Deluxe Edition)

Foster, Robert
(Harper Collins, hardcover)

Tolkien at Exeter College
Tolkien at Exeter College

Garth, John
(Exeter College, paperback)

Tolkien & The Great War
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth

Garth, John
(Mariner Books, hardcover)

The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien

Garth, John
(Princeton University Press, hardcover)

The Ring of Words
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

Gulliver, Peter, Jeremy Marshall & Edmind Weiner
(Oxford University Press, hardcover)

Creation & Beauty in Tolkien's Catholic Vision
Creation and Beauty in Tolkien’s Catholic Vision

Halsall, Michael John
(Pickwick Publications, paperback)

Tolkien’s Chronology of the Lord of the Rings

Hicklin, Bill
(Duke University Press, paperback)

The Inklings & King Arthur
The Inklings and King Arthur

Higgins, Sorina Ed.
(Apocryphile Press, paperback)

The Tolkien Years
The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt

Hildebrandt, Greg Jr., Greg & Tim
(Dynamite Entertainment, paperback)

Pity, Power and Tolkien's Ring
Pity, Power, and Tolkien’s Ring

Hillman, Thomas P
(Kent University Press, paperback)

Flora of Middle-earth
Flora of Middle-earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium

Judd, Walter S & Graham A
(Oxford University Press, hardcover)

The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
Master of Middle-earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien

Kocher, Paul H
(Del Rey, paperback)

A Tolkien Compass
A Tolkien Compass

Lobdell, Jared Ed.
(Open Court, paperback)

Tolkien Treasures
Tolkien: Treasures

McIlwaine, Catherine
(Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, hardcover)

Tolkien, Maker of Middle-earth
Tolkien: Make of Middle-earth

McIlwaine, Catherine Ed.
(Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, hardcover)

Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
Exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit

Olsen, Corey
(Mariner Books, paperback)

The Great Tales Never End
The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien

Ovenden, Richard and McIlwaine, Catherine Eds.
(Bodleian Library, hardcover)

The History of the Hobbit
The History of The Hobbit

Rateliff, John
(Harper Collins, hardcover)

The Art of The Lord of the Rings
The Art of the Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Scull, Christina & Hammond, Wayne
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, hardcover)

The Art of The Hobbit
The Art of the Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Scull, Christina & Hammond, Wayne
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, hardcover)

The J.R.R.Tolkien Companion and Guide
J.R.R. Tolkien Companion & Guide (Three Volume Box-set)

Scull, Christina & Hammond, Wayne
(Harper Collins, hardcover)

The Lord of the Rings - A Reader's Companion
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader’s Companion

Scull, Christina & Hammond, Wayne
(William Morrow, hardcover)

JRR Tolkien Artist & Illustrator
J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator

Scull, Christina & Hammond, Wayne
(William Morrow, paperback)

Author of the Century
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

Shippey, Tom
(William Morrow, paperback)

Roots & Branches
Roots & Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien

Shippey, Tom
(Walking Tree Publishers, paperback)

The People's Guide to J.R.R.Tolkien
The People’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien

TheOneRing.Net
(Cold Spring Press, paperback)

More People's Guide to Tolkien
More People’s Guide to J.R.R. Tolkien

TheOneRing.Net
(Cold Spring Press, paperback)

The Annotated Hobbit
The Annotated Hobbit

Tolkien, J.R.R. (Douglas Anderson, Ed.)
(Harper Collins, hardcover)

Tolkien and Alterity
Tolkien and Alterity

Vaccaro, Christopher and Kisor, Yvette Eds.
(paperback)

Tolkien and the Classical World
Tolkien and the Classical World

Williams, Hamish Ed.
(Walking Tree Publishers, paperback)

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