John D. Rateliff

John D. Rateliff
Biographical information
Born	1958
Education	Ph.D. at Marquette University
Occupation	Author, editor
Location	Seattle area
Website	Sacnoth's Scriptorium

John D. Rateliff (b. 1958) is a J.R.R. Tolkien scholar, who became well-known when publishing The History of The Hobbit in 2007. He received his Ph.D from the Marquette University with a dissertation on Lord Dunsany. He lives in the Seattle area and works as a professional editor.

Bibliography

Books

• 1993: Tolkien Portraiture (as assistant)
• 2002: The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game - Core Book (contributor)
• 2007: The History of The Hobbit Part One: Mr. Baggins
• 2007: The History of The Hobbit Part Two: Return to Bag-End
• 2011: The History of The Hobbit: One-volume Edition
• 2014: Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey (co-editor)
• 2015: A Brief History of The Hobbit

Articles

• 1980: Amon Hen 46
  • "What's next, Mr Bakshi"
• 1981: Amon Hen 49
  • "Who was Gothmog?"
• 1981: Amon Hen 50
  • "Pipping Patch Answers"
• 1981: Mythlore 8
  • "She and Tolkien"
• 1986: Mythlore 45
  • "'And Something Yet Remains to Be Said': Tolkien and Williams"
• 1988: Mallorn 25
  • "Gríma the Wormtongue: Tolkien and His Sources"
• 1991: Leaves from the Tree
  • "Early Versions of Farmer Giles of Ham"
• 1993: Mallorn 30
  • "The Hobbit and Tolkien's Other Pre-war Writings" (with Christina Scull)
• 2000: Tolkien's Legendarium
  • "The Lost Road, The Dark Tower, and The Notion Club Papers: Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad"
• 2006: The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004
  • "'And All the Days of Her Life Are Forgotten': The Lord of the Rings as Mythic Prehistory"
• 2010: Mallorn 49
  • "How do we know what we know?" (guest editorial)
• 2011: VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Vol.27
  • "Woodland Prisoner" - by Clyde S. Kilby with introduction and annotations by John D. Rateliff
• 2011: Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
  • "Two Kinds of Absence: Elision and Exclusion in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings"
• 2011: Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
  • "She and Tolkien, Revisited"
• 2012: L'Arc et le Heaume: Tolkien 1892-2012 (July 2012)
  • "Un Fragment, détaché: Bilbo le Hobbit et le Silmarillion" (English version: "A Fragment, Detached: The Hobbit and The Silmarillion")
• 2014: The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology
  • "Anchoring the Myth: The Impact of The Hobbit on Tolkien's Legendarium"
• 2014: Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey
  • "Inside Literature: Tolkien's Explorations of Medieval Genres"
• 2015: Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life
  • "The Missing Women: J.R.R. Tolkien's Lifelong Support for Women's Higher Education"
• 2015: Mythlore 127
  • "The Lost Letter: Seeking the Keys to William's Arthuriad"
• 2016: Tolkien Studies: Volume 13
  • "'That Seems To Me Fatal': Pagan and Christian in The Fall of Arthur"
• 2017: Orcrist 9
  • "How The Hobbit Came to Milwaukee"
• 2018: Tolkien Studies: Volume 15
  • "The Inklings and King Arthur: J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, & Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain ed. by Sørina Higgins (review)"
• 2020: Mythlore 137
  • "In Memoriam: The Last Inkling"

Awards

• 2009 - Mythopoeic Award, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, The History of The Hobbit Part I: Mr. Baggins
• 2023: Tolkien Society Award: Outstanding Contribution

See also

• Interview with John D. Rateliff on 16 April 2007

External links

• Sacnoth's Scriptorium (official website)
• "How The Hobbit came to Milwaukee", a talk given at Marquette University in 2012

Interviews

• John D. Rateliff, Doctor of Fantasy at Lognwinded.One
• An Interview with John Rateliff at Middle-earth.Xenite.Org