User:Corsair Caruso

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Corsair Caruso
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Language	American English
Age	30
Edit Count	215
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Gender	Male
Height	5' 8.5''
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	Hazel
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Early Life

I've been a reader and fan of the Middle-earth Legendarium since I was about 9 years old. I started with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, worked my way through The Silmarillion a few years later, and got my hands on Unfinished Tales after that.

Fandom and Research

I tried my hand at writing a little Middle-earth inspired poetry and fanfiction, but found myself limited in my knowledge of what was available. While searching for new sources to increase my knowledge base, I discovered The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle. This ended up becoming the topic of my doctoral thesis lecture recital and research document (read: dissertation), which was completed and defended as of December 2016.

I'm a member of the Mythopoeic Society, and a founding member a smial of The Tolkien Society located in Nacogdoches, Texas.

I'd like to contribute what I can to this wiki, hopefully improve its content, and learn more about the Legendarium. I've got little experience working on wikis, but I'm happy to learn.

My Tolkien Library

By J.R.R. Tolkien

• The Hobbit
• The Lord of the Rings
• The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle (with Donald Swann), 1st Edition.
• The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle (with Donald Swann), 2nd Edition.
• The Road Goes Ever On, A Song Cycle (with Donald Swann), 3rd Edition.
• A Tolkien Miscellany 2002 Hardback Edition.
  • Smith of Wooton Major
  • Farmer Giles of Ham
  • The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
• Bilbo's Last Song

Edited by Christopher Tolkien

• The Silmarillion
• Unfinished Tales
• The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
• The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (with Humphrey Carpenter)
• The History of Middle-earth:

1. The Book of Lost Tales Part One
2. The Book of Lost Tales Part Two
3. The Lays of Beleriand
4. The Shaping of Middle-earth
5. The Lost Road and Other Writings
6. The Return of the Shadow
7. The Treason of Isengard
8. The War of the Ring
9. Sauron Defeated
10. Morgoth's Ring
11. The War of the Jewels
12. The Peoples of Middle-earth
13. Index

• A Tolkien Miscellany 2002 Hardback Edition.
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
• The Children of Húrin

Edited by Others

• A Secret Vice (book), edited by Dimitra Fimi and Andrew Higgins
• Parma Eldalamberon, edited by Christopher Gilson
  • Parma Eldalamberon 6
  • Parma Eldalamberon 7
  • Parma Eldalamberon 20
  • Parma Eldalamberon 22
• The Annotated Hobbit: Revised and Expanded Edition, annotated by Douglas A. Anderson.
• The History of The Hobbit, One-Volume Edition, edited by John D. Rateliff

Works by Other Authors

Sorted approximately by topic and approximately in alphabetical order...

Biographical

• J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, by Humphrey Carpenter
• Tolkien, by Raymond Edwards
• Tolkien and the Great War, by John Garth
• Tolkien at Exeter College, by John Garth
• The Tolkien Family Album, by John and Priscilla Tolkien

Linguistic

• A Fan's Guide to Neo-Sindarin, by Fiona Jallings
• A Gateway to Sindarin, by David Salo
• Arda Philology 4 edited by Anders Stenström
• The Elvish Writing Systems of J.R.R. Tolkien, by Matthew D Coombes

Other

• A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Stuart D. Lee
• J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, by Tom Shippey
• J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, edited by Michael D.C. Drout
• J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth, by Bradley J. Birzer
• Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien, edited by Bradford Lee Eden
• Music in Middle-earth, edited by Heidi Steimel and Friedhelm Schneidewind
• Tolkien's Poetry, edited by Julian Eilmann and Allan Turner
• The Atlas of Middle-earth, Revised Edition, by Karen Wynn Fonstad
• The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.
  • Reader's Guide
  • Chronology
• The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, 2014, second revised and updated edition, by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull