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 (12 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", Henry Resnick, extracts of a more important interview published in 1967 in Niekas Issue 18 (Late Spring 1967)
• 1966: Daphne Castell interview
• 1966, July 26: "Writers Talking-1: The Hobbit Man", John Ezard, extracts published in (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: "Lord of the Hobbits", William Cater (Daily Express, 22 November 1966)^[8]
• 1966, November 30: "The Man Who Understands Hobbits"^[9]
• 1967: "The Hobbit Man", Philip Norman(Sunday Times Magazine, 15 January 1967)
• 1967:"The Prevalence of Hobbits", Philip Norman (The New York Times Magazine,15 January 1967)^[10]. Apparently the articles are "similar but not identical" to "The Hobbit Man".^[11]
• 1967: "A Benevolent and Furry-footed People" William Foster (The Scotsman, 25 March 1967)
• 1967: "An Interview with Tolkien", Henry Resnick (Niekas Issue 18 (Late Spring 1967), 1967)
• 1967: "J.R.R. Tolkien Talks about the Discovery of Middle-earth, the Origins of Elvish" (Richard Plotz; Seventeen, 17 January 1967)^[12][13]
• 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: "The Lord of the Legends: A Birthday Tribute to the Creator of The Hobbit", Bill Cater The Sunday Times Magazine (2 January 1972)
• 1972: "An Early History of the Hobbits.” Edinburgh Scotsman (February 5, 1972).
• 1972: ?Mid-March: "Tolkien Seeks the Quiet Life in Oxford" (Oxford Mail, 22 March 1972)^[14]
• 1972: “More and More People are Getting the J.R.R. Tolkien Habit.” Los Angeles Times (April 9, 1972), 14,18
• 1973: Tolkien interviewed about the Oxford Poetry Chair [Oxford Poetry Chair: ITV News 25-05-1973]^{[15][note 1]}

Notes

1. ↑ Tolkien was asked, "presumably you voted for Mr [?]Jennings?"
   

   "What?", replied Tolkien (he didn't hear the question).
   "Presumably you voted for Mr Jennings?"
   "I did. [inaudible]".
   

   The video then cuts away to black. Presumably this was just a way of introducing the main item. Tolkien is mentioned again and associated with Basil Blackwell as supporting Mr Jennings. (The Tolkien Society Facebook group, accessed 14 December 2013)

References

1. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (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. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (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. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, pp. 610-11
6. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (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. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 671
9. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 681
10. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, pp. 672, 686-7
11. ↑ The Sunday Times Magazine at Tolkienbooks.net (accessed 22 May 2011)
12. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, p. 679
13. ↑ Vinyar Tengwar, Number 47, February 2005, p. 30
14. ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (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)