Index:Interviews with J.R.R. Tolkien

Interviews with J.R.R. Tolkien is a project on Tolkien Gateway to create a chronological list of all known interviews conducted with J.R.R. Tolkien.

• Late 1955 or early 1956: "With Camera and Pen" (by Anthony Price; Oxford Times, 27 January 1956)^[1]
• 1955, June 5: : "Oxford Calling" ^[2]
• 1957: "Carnival of Books" Interview
• 1961: Interview by Jan Broberg
• 1961: "Den besynnerlige professor Tolkien" (Interview by Lars Gustafsson)
• 1962: Interview by John Bowen (10 December), for BBC TV's Bookstand.^[3][4]
• 1963: Interview by Anthony Curtis (?late October—?early November).^[5] Extracts published in The Sunday Telegraph (10 November 1963), I, Palantir (April 1964), and British Book News (June 1977).
• 1964: 1964 BBC Interview
• 1965: 1965 BBC Interview
• 1966: "The Hobbit-forming World of J.R.R. Tolkien"
• 1966: Daphne Castell interview
• 1966, July 26: Interview by John Ezard, extracts published in "Writers Talking-1: The Hobbit Man" (Oxford Mail, 3 August 1966). Slightly different extracts from the interview were published in Ezard's article "Tolkien's Shire" (Weekend Guardian 28-29 December 1991)^[6][7]
• 1966, August 2: Interview by William Cater, published as "Lord of the Hobbits" (Daily Express, 22 November 1966)^[8]
• 1966, August 9: Interview by Philip Norman published as "The Hobbit Man" (Sunday Times Magazine, 15 January 1967) and as "The Prevalence of Hobbits" in The New York Times Magazine (15 January 1967)^[9]. Apparently the articles are "similar but not identical".^[10]
• 1966, November 1: "J.R.R. Tolkien Talks about the Discovery of Middle-earth, the Origins of Elvish" (Richard Plotz; Seventeen, 17 January 1967)^[11][12]
• 1966, November 30: "The Man Who Understands Hobbits"^[13]
• 1967: "A Benevolent and Furry-footed People" William Foster (The Scotsman, 25 March 1967)
• 1968: "Fireworks for the Author" (Don Chapman 'Anthony Wood', Oxford Mail, 9 February 1968)
• 1968: "In the Footsteps of the Hobbits" (Keith Brace; Birmingham Post, 25 May 1968)
• 1968: Tolkien in Oxford
• 1972, ?Mid-March: "Tolkien Seeks the Quiet Life in Oxford" (Oxford Mail, 22 March 1972)^[14]
• 1973: Tolkien interviewed about the Oxford Poetry Chair [Oxford Poetry Chair: ITV News 25-05-1973]^{[15][note 1]}

Notes

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1. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 483
2. ↑ The New York Times at www.nytimes.com (accessed 21 May 2014)
3. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 602
4. ↑ BOOKSTAND: J.R.R. TOLKIEN - INTERVIEW at BFI.org.uk (accessed 6 November 2011)
5. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, pp. 610-11
6. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 670-1
7. ↑ Weekend Guardian.1991 at Tolkienbooks.net (accessed 22 May 2011)
8. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 671
9. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, pp. 672, 686-7
10. ↑ The Sunday Times Magazine at Tolkienbooks.net (accessed 22 May 2011)
11. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 679
12. ↑ Vinyar Tengwar, Number 47, February 2005, p. 30
13. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 681
14. ↑ Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 760
15. ↑ Oxford Poetry Chair at jiscmediahub.ac.uk (accessed 10 December 2013)