Tolkien Gateway:Reliable Sources

A list of reliable and unreliable sources which respectively should and shouldn't be used on Tolkien Gateway. The list below covers secondary material only (i.e. not publications by J.R.R. Tolkien or his son Christopher Tolkien) both published and online.

Reliable

Online

• The Compleat Gyde to Tolkien Calendars
• LOTRO Lorebook (for LOTRO information)
• TolkienBooks.net
• Tolkien Collector's Guide
• Tolkien Library

Publications

• The History of The Hobbit by John D. Rateliff
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
• The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare by Chris Smith (for film information)
• The Ring of Words by Peter Gilliver, Edmund Weiner and Jeremy Marshall
• The Road to Middle-earth by Tom Shippey

Semi-reliable

Online

• TheOneRing.net

Publications

• An Introduction to Elvish by Jim Allan
• The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad

Unreliable

Publications

• The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth by Ruth S. Noel
• The Lord of the Rings: Weapons and Warfare by Chris Smith (for Tolkien information)
• Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia by David Day (or any other works by this author)

See also

• Help:References