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[edit]
- 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
- 1977: Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel Elsemarie Maletzke: Gegen die »Lektorateneinheitssoße«.
- 1978: Eglerio! In Praise of Tolkien
- 1979: From an "Outsider"
- 1982: Brothers and Friends: The Diaries of Major Warren Hamilton Lewis
- 1982: The Road to Middle-earth
- 1983: In Search of C.S. Lewis
- 1985: A Path from Rome: An Autobiography by Anthony Kenny
- 1987: Pictures under Discussion by John Loengard
- 1991: Laughter and the Love of Friends: Reminiscences of the Distinguished English Priest and Philosopher by Martin C. D’Arcy
- 1999: George Allen & Unwin: A Remembrancer
- 1999: Tolkien: A Celebration
- 1999: A Companion to the Gawain-Poet in ‘Tolkien and the Oxford English School’ by Derek Brewer.
- 2005: Remembering C.S. Lewis: Recollections by Those Who Knew Him
- 2007: Penultimate Adventures with Britannia: Personalities, Politics and Culture by Wm. Roger Louis (Editor) includes "Tolkien in the first World War" by Martin Gilbert.
- 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: Mémoires by Louis Bouyer (published in English as The Memoirs of Louis Bouyer: From Youth and Conversion to Vatican II, the Liturgical Reform, and After in 2015)[1]
- 2014: The Unexpected Professor by John Carey
Articles[edit]
- 1968: Niekas, Volume 19
- An edited transcript of remarks at the December 1966 TSA meeting by Clyde S Kilby
- 1972: Andúril 1 (April)
- L. Sprague de Camp, "Letter to the editor", (pp. 8-9)
- 1973: Mallorn 6 (January)
- "Belladonna Goes to a Party"
- 1973: The Sunday Telegraph (9 September)
- 1973: Locus #149 (14 September)
- [L. Sprague de Camp about his meeting with Tolkien]
- 1973: The Tablet, 15 September
- 1976: Mythlore 12
- "Reminiscenses", by Walter Hooper
- 1977: Margaret M. Leyland
- 1977: British Book News (June 1977)
- "Remembering Tolkien and Lewis" (Anthony Curtis)
- 1977: The New York Time, october 2,
- 1978: The Living Church (February 5, 1978), 11-12.
- "A visit with Tolkien" by Nan Scott
- 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)[2]
- 1979: New York Times (February 23 1979), A27.
- “Hobbits in Kentucky.” Guy Davenport
- 1980: Amon Hen 44
- "Recollections" (by Roger Lancelyn Green)
- 1980: Minas Tirith Evening-Star 9, no. 2 (January 1980), pp. 16-17
- 1981: Jahrbuch der Karl-May-Gesellschaft 1981
- "Karl-May-Ähnliches in J. R. R. Tolkiens Dichtung 'Der Herr der Ringe'" (by Franz Cornaro)[note 1]
- 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”
- 1988: Arda 1984/1985
- Naomi Collyer: "Recollections of Professor J.R.R. Tolkien"[note 2]
- 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
- 1998: Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees" issue 6
- ...asked many times - and it still suprises me - "Did you know your grandfather?", presented by Joanna Tolkien. Shrewsbury, 16 April 1994.
- 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.][3]
- 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.com
- 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
- 2005: telegraph.co.uk
- 2005: www.inf.ed.ac.uk
- 2006: www.martingilbert.com/
- 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: Amon Hen 212
- "Best wishes from Thorin and Company" Marco di Noia
- 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, september
- "Tolkien, Lewis and the Queen of Christendom 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.
- 2015: theimaginativeconservative.org
- "Sir Martin Gilbert and the Inklings" by Bradley J. Birzer
- 2015: hillsdalecollegian.com
- 2016: coolbloobridge.com
- 2016: fatcherry.de
- 2017: The Times, 22 May
- 2017: www.quora.com
- 2018: Simbelmynë #2 (31)
- "My J.R.R. Tolkien Memories", by Zbigniew Pełczyński
Recordings[edit]
- 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[edit]
Recollections by:
- Leslie Megahey talks about “Tolkien in Oxford” at tolkiensociety.org
- 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[edit]
- Tolkien Calendar 2015: The text accompanying June, 'The Inn at Bree', contains a recollection by the artist Mary Fairburn.
Notes
- ↑ Discussing similarities between Karl May and Tolkien, the article includes a quote from a letter from Rayner Unwin (dated 3 August 1979): "[Christopher Tolkien] tells me that certainly Professor J. R. R. Tolkien's library did not contain any of the works of Karl May, but he would obviously not be able to say for certain that his father was unfamiliar with this author. All he can say is that as far as he knows, the similarities are coincidental."
- ↑ Quote from the article: “I first met Professor Tolkien in 1962. Just married, I was looking for part-time work, and the Professor needed someone to cope with the fan mail, which was piling up unanswered while he tried to pursue the many strands of his creative work - sorting of material for the Silmarillion (for example at that time he was torn between his prose and verse versions of the story of Beren and Lúthien), polishing his translations of Pearl and Sir Gawain, and corresponding with publishers about Tree and Leaf, then just in the press [in fact, not until 1963 or 1964]. I worked primarily in his well-known garage-library, where surrounded with texts ranging from huge Anglo-Saxon [manuscripts] in facsimile to brand new copies of his own works, and looking out over the beautiful garden, I typed his courteous replies to his fans all over the world. It was not long however before I started a family and gave up work. ”
References
- ↑ Beregond, Anders Stenström, "16 mars 2017" dated 28 March 2017, Tolkienseminariet (accessed 6 June 2019)
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ "Tolkien Society Facebook group post", Facebook (accessed 22 May 2017)
