Index:Reminiscences of J.R.R. Tolkien
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Reminiscences of J.R.R. Tolkien is a page on Tolkien Gateway which collects publications of people recalling their personal experiences of J.R.R. Tolkien. Apart from their literary value, reminiscences might also be useful for scholars researching the life and works of Tolkien.
Books
- 1962: Sprightly Running
- 1965: The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity of Malory's Morte Darthur
- 1969: The Tolkien Relation
- 1971: Music Drama in Schools
- 1974: C.S. Lewis: A Biography (by Green and Hooper)
- 1976: Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers
- 1976: Tolkien and The Silmarillion
- 1979: From an "Outsider"
- 1982: Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis
- 1982: The Road to Middle-earth
- 1985: A Path from Rome: An Autobiography by Anthony Kenny
- 1999: George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer
- 1999: Tolkien: A Celebration
- 2005: Remembering C.S. Lewis: Recollections by Those Who Knew Him
- 2008: Tolkien - min vän Ronald och hans världar (published in English as J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process in 2011) by Arne Zettersten
- 2013: La Conexion Española de J.R.R. Tolkien by José Manuel Ferrández Bru
- 2013: Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life
- 2014: The Unexpected Professor by John Carey
- 201?: On Tolkien: Interviews, Reminiscences, and Other Essays [forthcoming], edited by Douglas A. Anderson and Marjorie Burns (eds.)
Articles
- 1972: L. Sprague de Camp, "Letter to the editor", Andúril 1 (April 1972, pp. 8-9)
- 1973: Mallorn 6 (January 1973)
- "Belladonna Goes to a Party"
- 1973: Locus #149 (14 September 1973) [L. Sprague de Camp about his meeting with Tolkien]
- 1973: The Tablet, 15 September
- 1977: Margaret M. Leyland
- 1977: British Book News (June 1977)
- "Remembering Tolkien and Lewis" (Anthony Curtis)
- 1979: J.R.R. Tolkien: Scholar and Storyteller
- "The Man and the Scholar - A reminiscence" (S.T.R.O. d'Ardenne)
- 1979: Notes and Queries, Volume 26 Issue 3
- "Reviews" (by B.D.H. Miller)[1]
- 1980: Amon Hen 44
- "Recollections" (by Roger Lancelyn Green)
- 1980: Minas Tirith Evening-Star 9, no. 2 (January 1980), pp. 16-17
- 1981: "Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) John Boorman
- 1983: "The Inklings Archives 2: Facets of Tolkien
- 1983: New York Times (September 4)
- "Middle Earth Revisited" [Includes reminiscence by Mr. Ballantine]
- 1987: Foreword (by Christopher Tolkien) to The Hobbit 50th Anniversary edition)
- 1988: Amon Hen 91
- “‘Tolkien Reconsidered’: A Talk by Humphrey Carpenter Given at the Cheltenham Literary Festival,”
- 1989: BBC Radio 4, 20 January,
- Program "To Keep the Memory Green" Humphrey Carpenter looks at the Tolkien Society
- 1989: "Minas Tirith Evening Star, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 5-9"
- "An Interview with Michael Tolkien"Union Lake", by Gary Hunnewell
- 1990: Mythlore 64
- "Professor J.R.R. Tolkien: A Personal Memoir", by Robert Havard
- 1992: The Brown Book (December)
- "Memories of J.R.R. Tolkien in His Centenary Year" (pp. 12-14; Priscilla Tolkien)
- 1993: Angerthas 34 (July)
- "J.R.R. Tolkien and Edith Tolkien's Stay in Staffordshire 1916, 1917 and 1918" (pp. 4-5) (Priscilla Tolkien)
- 1994: Tygodnik Powszechny, nr 14
- "Oksfordzcy mistrzowie wyobraźni" ["Oxfordian Masters of Imagination"; interview with Przemyslaw Mroczkowski conducted by Tomasz Fiałkowskim] (for more info on the contents of the interview, see Przemyslaw Mroczkowski)
- 1995: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
- Section 1: Recollection and Remembrance
- "Reminiscences: Oxford in 1920, Meeting Tolkien and Becoming an Author at 77" (Vera Chapman)
- "Tolkien Centenary Banquet Address" (Glen H. Goodknight)
- "Sermon at Thanksgiving Service, Keble College Chapel, 23rd August 1992" (Robert Murray)
- "Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien" (George Sayer)
- "Publishing Tolkien" (Rayner Unwin)
- Section 1: Recollection and Remembrance
- 1996: Independent, 4 December
- 1997: apittman.com
- 1999: TheOnering.net, December 17,
- 1999: Morgunblaðið, February 28 (Icelandic newspaper)
- [In an article, Linda Ásdísardóttir interviews 89-year-old Arndís Þorbjarnardóttir who had been an au-pair in the Tolkien household while J.R.R. Tolkien was writing The Hobbit.][2]
- 1999: Tolkien: A Celebration: Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy
- "Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien" (George Sayer)
- "Tolkien and С. S. Lewis: An Interview with Walter Hooper"
- 2000: Theonering.net, 18 August,
- 2001: The Sunday Times Magazine, 25 November
- “Our Brief Encounter,” by Humphrey Carpenter
- 2001: Telegraph, 4 December
- 2001: Christopherleeweb
- 2001: Watford Observer, 14 December
- "Related to Tolkien" (Sandra Carter; interview with Julian Tolkien)
- 2001: The Guardian, 14 December
- 2002: Bilbo's Farewell Song, 26 August
- 2002: Chesterton Review February , Volume 28, Issue 1/2, Pp 119-123
- "Tolkien, the Ring, and I " by Peter Milward
- 2003: The Mail,23 Febuary
- 2003: BBC.co.uk", 27 March
- 2003: ctlibrary.com"
- 2004: Moorcock's Miscellany (website), 19 May
- 2006: Andwerve, 08 January
- 2007: Last book Tolkien signed before he died on auction by Bonhams
- "[1]"
- 2008: Amon Hen 209
- "Some Family Connections with J.R.R. Tolkien" (B.S. Benedikz; pp. 11-3)
- 2008: Thekindlings website
- 2008: thecuttingedgenews.com
- 2009: Telegraph, 8 May
- "Culture Clinic: Sister Wendy Beckett" (interview with Sister Wendy Beckett)
- 2009: Examiner, 26 October
- 2010: Mallorn 50, "The Tolkien Society - the early days" by Charles E. Noad.
- 2010: festivalartandbooks.com
- 2010: Huffington Post, 26 April
- 2010: wamc.org 18 may,
- 2010: Mythprint (June issue, Vol. 47, No. 6, #335, on pp. 3–4)
- 2010: Oxford Today Volume 22 No 2, Hilary 2010
- "A Python's progress" (interview with Terry Jones)
- 2011: The Independent, 6 March
- "How We Met: Caradoc King & Philip Pullman" (interviews by Adam Jacques)
- 2012:mymiddleearth.com, 25 March
- 2012: The Saga of Hrolf Kraki
- Foreword (by Priscilla Tolkien)
- 2012: The Guardian, 03 September
- 2012: staustinreview.com,
- "Tolkien, Lewis and the Queen of Christendom by By Peter Milward
- 2012: Times of Malta,, 24 December
- "A quest for The Hobbit" (by Kristina Chetcuti).(interview with Charles Calleja)
- 2013: BBC News, 21 March 2013
- "Did Gollum get his name from a cave in the Irish Burren?" (by Nuala McCann). [Includes reminiscence attributed to Rose MacNamara].
- 2013: Mallorn 54
- "A Recollection of Tolkien: Canon Gerard Hanlon" (eds, Daniel Helen and Morgan Thomsen)
- 2013: The Morrisian (blog)
- "The Morrisian Interview Series, #2: John J. Walsdorf" (12 April 2013)
- 2013: The Independent, 22 November
- 2014: goodreads.com
- "Under the shadow of the Ring: my writing beginnings" by Paula Coston
- 2014: The Journal of Inklings Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1
- "C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as I knew them (Never Well)" by Eric Stanley.
Recordings
- 2011: BBC Radio 4, 25 November
- 2012: The Hobbit, the Musical, radio programme (London: BBC, 2012)
- Featuring a recollection by Paul Drayton of his and Humphrey Carpenter's meeting with Tolkien in 1967 to get permission for The Hobbit (1967 stage adaptation).
- 2012: Sister Wendy Beckett, radio programme (London: BBC, 2012) Desert Island Disc
- 2013: Beyond Belief, radio programme (London: BBC, 2013) Robert Hardy
- 2014: Men @ Work with Michael Tolkien, 11 October
Videos
Recollections by:
- 2011: BBC Radio Oxford's Phil Gayle speaks to Robert Hardy
- Douglas Gresham Remembers meeting J.R.R. Tolkien
- Douglas Gresham - Liberty University Convocation
- Joseph Power
- Rose MacNamara (1)
- Rose MacNamara (2)
- Jeremy Prince
- Simon Tolkien (1)
- Simon Tolkien (2)
- Simon Tolkien (3)
- Simon Tolkien (4)
- Simon Tolkien (5)
- Simon Tolkien (6)
Other
- Tolkien Calendar 2015: The text accompanying June, 'The Inn at Bree', contains a recollection by the artist Mary Fairburn.
References
- ↑ John D. Rateliff, "Tolkien and the Elephant" dated 7 April 2013, Sacnoth's Scriptorium (accessed 9 April 2013)
- ↑ Nancy Marie Brown, "Tolkien's Icelandic Trolls" dated 1 August 2012, God of Wednesday (blog) (accessed 2 August 2012)