BEST BOOKS TO UNDERSTAND TOLKIEN

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Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World
by Verlyn Flieger
300 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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2
Tolkien: A Biography
by Humphrey Carpenter
3,140 members
24 reviews
4
2 Members
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3
On Fairy-Stories
by Verlyn Flieger
537 members
7 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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4
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
by J. R. R. Tolkien
3,033 members
20 reviews
4.2
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5
The Atlas of Middle-Earth: Revised Edition
by Karen Wynn Fonstad
1,879 members
17 reviews
4.2
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6
Tree and Leaf
by J. R. R. Tolkien
617 members
4 reviews
½ 3.7
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7
J. R. R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-Earth
by Bradley J. Birzer
318 members
4 reviews
4
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8
Smith of Wootton Major
by J. R. R. Tolkien
1,168 members
21 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
1,016 members
12 reviews
4.1
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10
Farmer Giles of Ham
by J. R. R. Tolkien
2,133 members
27 reviews
3.8
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11
Tolkien: Man and Myth
by Joseph Pearce
369 members
2 reviews
3.8
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12
The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings
by Peter Kreeft
431 members
6 reviews
4
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13
Tolkien: A Celebration : Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy
by Joseph Pearce
269 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
2,406 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
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