Tolkien and the Great War (48 page)

Letters from JRRT to Geoffrey Bache Smith and Christopher Luke Wiseman; letters to JRRT from Robert Cary Gilson, Robert Quilter Gilson, R. W. Reynolds, G. B. Smith, Ruth Smith, and C. L. Wiseman (Bodleian Tolkien family papers 2/1 and 2/2).

JRRT's personal military papers, including his cursory ‘Diary of Brief Time in France and of Last Seven Times I Saw GBS' [JRRT diary] (Bodleian Tolkien family papers 2/6).

Other papers belonging to JRRT, including college notebooks and books from his library (Bodleian Tolkien; shelfmarks given in source notes).

All of the above are courtesy of the Tolkien Estate and the Bodleian Library.

Letters from R. Q. Gilson to R. C. Gilson, Marianne Cary Gilson (‘Donna') and Estelle King; other Gilson correspondence (all courtesy of Julia Margretts and Frances Harper).

Letter from C. L. Wiseman to Dr Peter Liddle, 22 July 1977, recalling his naval service; memoir of W. J. Senescall, 11th Suffolks [Senescall memoir] (courtesy of the Liddle Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds).

Letters and notebooks of Lt. C. L. Platt, 19th Lancashire Fusiliers [Platt papers]; diary of Capt. Lionel Ferguson, 13th Cheshires [Ferguson diary]; the Revd M. S. Evers, ‘The Memoirs of Mervyn' [Evers memoir]; papers of Capt. P. F. J. Fawcett-Barry [Fawcett-Barry papers]; narrative and notebook by 2nd Lt. G. A. Potts [Potts papers]; memoir ‘1914 to 1919' by F. Mills [Mills memoir]; narrative from the notes of Col. C. H. David, 111th Brigade, Royal Field Artillery [David narrative] (all courtesy of the Imperial War Museum).

References in square brackets are to the abbreviations and short titles used in the source notes. Place of publication is London, unless otherwise stated.

The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
, ed. Christopher Tolkien (George Allen & Unwin, 1983)
[LT1].

The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
, ed. Christopher Tolkien (George Allen & Unwin, 1984)
[LT2].

‘Early Noldorin Fragments': see
Parma Eldalamberon
13, under Periodicals.

‘Guide to the Names in
The Lord of the Rings'
, in Jared Lobdell (ed.),
A Tolkien Compass
(Open Court, 1975).

The Hobbit
references are to
The Annotated Hobbit
, annotated by Douglas A. Anderson (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002).

‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son', in
Essays and Studies
vi (John Murray, 1953). References are to the Tolkien anthology
Poems and Stories
(HarperCollins, 1992).

‘I·Lam na·Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue': see
Parma Eldalamberon
11, under Periodicals.

The Lays of Beleriand
, ed. Christopher Tolkien (George Allen & Unwin, 1985).

Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien: A Selection
, ed. Humphrey Carpenter with Christopher Tolkien (George Allen & Unwin, 1981)
[Letters].

The Lord of the Rings
(HarperCollins, 1995): a standard one-volume edition.

The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
, ed. Christopher Tolkien (George Allen & Unwin, 1983)
[Monsters].

Morgoth's Ring
, ed. Christopher Tolkien (HarperCollins, 1993).

The Peoples of Middle-earth
, ed. Christopher Tolkien (HarperCollins, 1996).

‘Philology: General Works', annual survey in Lee and Boas (eds.),
The Year's Work in English Studies, 1923;
Boas and Herford (eds.),
The Year's Work in English Studies, 1924.

‘The Poetic and Mythologic Words of Eldarissa': see
Parma Eldalamberon
12, under Periodicals.

‘Qenyaqetsa: The Qenya Phonology and Lexicon': see
Parma Eldalamberon
12, under Periodicals.

Sauron Defeated
, ed. Christopher Tolkien (HarperCollins, 1992).

The Shaping of Middle-earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals together with the earliest ‘Silmarillion' and the first Map
, ed. Christopher Tolkien (George Allen & Unwin, 1986).

Unfinished Tales
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Allison, K. J. (ed.),
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Barlow, Sir C. A. Montague,
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].

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Blunden, Edmund,
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Boas, F. S., and Herford, C. H. (eds.),
The Year's Work in English Studies
, vol. v: 1924 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925).

—
The Year's Work in English Studies
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Brazier, Reginald H., and Sandford, Ernest,
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Brenan, Gerald,
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Brittain, Vera,
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Brogan, Hugh, ‘Tolkien's Great War', in Gillian Avery and Julia Briggs (eds.),
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Brown, Malcolm,
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Carpenter, Humphrey,
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].

Carrington, Charles (pseudonymously as ‘Charles Edmonds'),
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(Peter Davies, 1929).

—
Soldier from the Wars Returning
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Carter, Terry,
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Cater, Bill, ‘We talked of love, death and fairy tales',
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Cecil, Hugh,
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Cork, Richard,
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Courtauld, Simon, ‘In Remembrance: and the memories of a living hero',
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Cuttell, Barry,
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d'Ardenne, S. R. T. O., ‘The Man and the Scholar', in
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, ed. Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1979).

Dorman, J. E.,
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Douie, Charles,
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Earle, John,
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Ekwall, Eilert,
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English School Association, Leeds,
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(Leeds: The Swan Press, 1923).

—
Leeds University Verse 1914-24
(Leeds: The Swan Press, 1924).

Ensor, Sir Robert,
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Farnell, Lewis R.,
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(Martin Hopkinson, 1934).

Ferguson, Niall,
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(Penguin, 1999).

Flieger, Verlyn,
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(Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1997).

Fussell, Paul,
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(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975).

Gibbs, Philip,
Now It Can Be Told
(New York: Harper, 1920).

Gibson, R. H., and Prendergast, Maurice,
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(Constable, 1931).

Gilbert, Martin,
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(HarperCollins, 1995).

Gilliver, Peter M., ‘At the Wordface',
Proceedings of the J. R. R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
, ed. Patricia Reynolds and Glen GoodKnight (Milton Keynes and Altadena: The Tolkien Society and the Mythopoeic Press, 1995).

Gilson, Christopher, ‘“Narqelion” and the Early Lexicons: Some Notes on the First Elvish Poem',
Vinyar Tengwar
40 (Crofton, 1999).

Gliddon, Gerald,
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Graves, Robert,
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(William Heinemann, 1917).

—
Good-bye to All That
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Grein, C. W. M., 2nd edition of R. P. Wülcker,
Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie
(Kassel/Leipzig: Georg H. Wigand, 1881-3).

Grimm, Jacob,
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, tr. J. S. Stallybrass (George Bell & Sons, 1883).

Haggard, Henry Rider,
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Hammond, Wayne G., and Scull, Christina,
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and illustrator
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Artist
].

Hammond, Wayne G., with Anderson, Douglas A.,
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(New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Books, 1993).

Hayter, P. D. G. (ed.),
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,
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,
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Hostetter, Carl F., and Smith, Arden R., ‘A Mythology for England',
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, ed. Patricia Reynolds and Glen GoodKnight (Milton Keynes and Altadena: The Tolkien Society and the Mythopoeic Press, 1995).

Hostetter, Carl F., ‘Over Middle-earth Sent Unto Men: On the Philological Origins of Tolkien's Eärendel Myth',
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65 (Spring 1991).

—introduction to Tolkien's ‘The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor',
Vinyar Tengwar
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How, A. B.,
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(Oxford: Blackwell, 1928).

Hutchinson, Harold F.,
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Hutton, T. W.,
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Hyde, Paul Nolan, ‘Narqelion: A Single, Falling Leaf at Sun-fading',
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Hynes, Samuel,
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(The Bodley Head, 1990).

James, Lt.-Col. Lionel, DSO,
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(
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) (Sifton, Praed and Co., 1921).

Jenkyns, Richard,
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Keegan, John,
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References are to the Dover edition (New York, 1966).

Latter, Major-General J. C.,
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Lewis, Cecil,
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Lewis, C. S., ‘The Dethronement of Power',
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Lewis, W. H.,
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Macaulay, Lord,
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Macdonald, Alexander,
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