Dr. Jared Charles Lobdell (born 29 November 1937 - 22 March 2019) was an American writer and teacher of Literary Criticism (and many other fields). He published several articles about various fantasy and science-fiction writers, like C.S. Lewis and George Orwell.
Bibliography, selected
Books
- 1975: A Tolkien Compass (editor)
- 1981: England and Always: Tolkien's World of the Rings
- 2004: The World of the Rings
- 2005: The Rise of Tolkienian Fantasy
Articles
- 1966: Rally - August, 1966
- "Words That Sound like Castles"
- 1975: A Tolkien Compass (editor)
- Introduction
- Postscript (2nd edition)
- 1978: American Notes and Queries Supplement I
- "A Medieval Proverb in The Lord of the Rings"
- 1987: Selections from the Marquette J.R.R. Tolkien Collection
- "Mr. Bliss: Notes on the Manuscript and Story"
- 1991: Word and Story in C.S. Lewis
- "C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Stories and Their Eighteenth-Century Ancestry"
- 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
- Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings
- Angels
- Carolingians
- Cave, The
- Childhood of Tolkien
- Criticism of Tolkien, Twentieth Century
- Devil's Coach-Horses
- Dreams
- England, Twentieth Century
- Father Christmas
- Gothic Language
- Languages: Early Introduction and Interest
- Lombardic Language
- Lord of the Rings, The: Success of
- Mr. Bliss
- Pilgrimage
- Roverandom
- Saint Brendan
- Saint Oswald
- Sauron
- Sin
- Welsh Language
- World War II
- 2011: Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work
- "Ymagynatyf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Roman Catholicism, Catholic Theology, Religion in The Lord of the Rings"
- 2016: Laughter in Middle-earth
- "Humour, Comedy, the Comic, Comicality, Puns, Wordplay, 'Fantastication', and 'English Humour' in and around Tolkien and His Work, and among the Inklings"