The Riddles of The Hobbit (31 page)

Bolaño, Roberto,
169

Bretherton, Christopher,
36
,
126

Brightman, Edgar Sheffield,
41

Brown, Dan,
The Da Vinci Code
,
2

Bunyan, John,
Pilgrim’s Progress
,
36

burrahobbit, nature of,
89–90

Caldecott, Stratford,
177

Carey, James,
78–9
,
80

Chambers, Raymond Wilson,
22

Chaucer, Geoffrey,
164

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
12
,
133

Crossley-Holland, Kevin,
16
,
37
,
39
,
70–2

Cynewulf,
31
,
82–3

Davies, Brian,
119

Delalande, Pierre,
1
,
150
,
173

Delany, Samuel,
153

Derrida, Jacques,
130

Dickens, Charles,
156

DiGaetani, John Louis,
116

Donne, John, ‘A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning’,
10

Elgar, Eileen,
38

Elliot, Ralph,
83

Empson, William,
51

Ents, riddle of,
26–8
,
133

Exeter Book, The
,
16
,
31–55
passim
,
70–3
,
81–3
,
91
,
125
,
149

Freud, Anna,
155

Freud, Sigmund,
14
,
22
,
146
,
151
,
155–6

Garner, Alan,
82

Garth, John,
162–3

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
138

Graves, Robert

‘She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep’,
10–11

The White Goddess
,
79–81
,
174

Greene, Graham,
41
,
120

Harder, Douglas Wilhelm,
73

Hardy, Thomas,
3
,
135

Heaney, Seamus,
16
,
106
,
112

Hill, John Michael,
22

Historia Brittonum
,
39

Homer,
62

Hooper, Walter,
41

Hopkins, Gerard Manley,
35

House
(TV Show),
2

Jackson, Peter,
130
,
137
,
154

Jacobs, Alan,
170

Jacques, Brian,
82

James, Henry,
26

Jember, Gregory,
31

Johnson, Samuel,
53

Kelly,
Fergus,
45

Kennings,
42–3
,
53

Ker, William Paton,
6–7
,
22
,
23
,
105–6

Kierkegaard, Søren,
15–16

Kipling, Rudyard

‘The Changelings’,
7–8

‘The Egg Shell’,
8–9

Larrington, Carolyne,
20

Le Guin, Ursula,
158–9

Leechbooks of Bald
,
59–60

Leofric (Bishop),
32

Lewis, Clive Staples,
12
,
41
,
122–3
,
160
,
162

Mabinogion
,
39

Manlove, Colin,
120–1

Martin-Clarke, Daisy Elizabeth,
29

Marx, Karl,
127

McEllen, Ian, as Gandalf,
132

McGully, Chris,
43–4

Milton, John,
38
,
132

Mitchell, Bruce,
23

Mitchison, Naomi,
41

Moretti, Franco,
138–9

Morgan, Gwendolyn,
31

Morris, William,
140
,
145

Murphy, Patrick,
16
,
55

Murray, Robert Fr.,
119

Olsen, Corey,
92–3

Opie, Iona,
165

Opie, Peter,
165

Orchard, Andrew,
106–7

Paul (Saint),
2–3

Peppe, Roger,
9

Phillips, Adam
154–6

Porter, Peter,
175–6

Radner, Joan,
46

Raine, Craig

‘The Onion, Memory’,
10

‘A Martian Sends a Postcard Home’,
14

Rateliff, John,
65–6
,
161
,
174

Renard, Jules,
169

Richardson, Samuel,
Pamela
,
138

Robinson, Frederick,
23

Rothfuss, Patrick,
The Name of the Wind
,
101–2

Rowling, Joanne,
158

Saga of King Heidrek the Wise, The
,
47–51
,
63–4
,
68

Salus, Peter,
19

Shakespeare, William

Hamlet
,
138
,
145–6

Macbeth
,
27

Shippey, Tom,
4
,
49
,
50
,
68
,
77
,
117
,
163
,
169
,
170–1
,
178

Solomon and Saturn
,
46–8

Stacey, Robin Chapman,
46
,
50
,
172

Stevens, Wallace,
11

Symphosius,
81

Taylor, Paul,
19

Tolkien, Christopher,
144

Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel,
1

very unHardyesque,
3
,
43

writes to Shippey,
4

meets Robert Graves,
11

cordially dislikes allegory,
12

moved by two lines of Cynewulf,
32–3

haunted by Atlantis,
36

fascinated by dragons,
41

on the source of his riddles,
68–9

writes 2000–page commentary on
Beowulf
,
104

repudiates any debt to Wagner
Ring
,
116
,
157

on marriage,
122

liked typewriters,
126

on longing,
149

defines ‘hobbit’,
163

Works:

Adventures of Tom Bombadil
,
37–8

Children of Húrin, The
,
20–2

Hobbit,
The
,
4–6
,
13
,
14
,
17
,
29
,
33
,
37
,
44
,
49–50
,
53
,
56–76
passim
,
83–104
passim
,
113
,
121
,
126
,
127
,
130
,
134
,
148
,
153
,
161–8
passim

Lord of the Rings, The
,
4–5
,
11–12
,
13
,
23
,
26–9
,
33
,
51
,
63
,
83
,
93
,
99
,
101–2
,
106
,
114–25
,
127–36
,
146–9
,
153–4
,
163
,
167

‘Monsters and the Critics, The’,
41
,
104–5

Morgoth’s Ring
,
115
,
123

‘On Fairy Tales’,
96

Roverandom
,
40

Sauron Defeated
,
163–4

Sigurd and Gudrún
,
140–5

Silmarillion, The
,
33
,
68
,
102
,
115

Unfinished Tales
,
96

Upper, Frederick,
32

Unwin, Rayner,
131

Unwin, Stanley,
1
,
13

Wagner, Richard,
Der Ring des Nibelungen
,
116
,
140–2
,
145
,
156–7

Waldman, Milton,
120
,
170

Waugh, Evelyn,
120

Whitehead, Robert,
9

Wilcox, Jonathan,
91

Williamson, Nicol,
59

Wyatt, Anthony John,
104

Yocum, Christopher Guy,
45