Critical Essays on Tolkien

[Carorëiel]

I'm doing a project (I'll spare you the details), and I'm looking for different critical essays on Tolkien and his works (mostly LotR, but not necessarily exclusively). My focus is essays addressing (even if somewhat obliquely) Tolkien's importance, whether literary, social, historical--whatever. In other words, essays addressing why we continue to read him.

I'm familiar with the essays in Flieger's Splintered Light, Pearce's (ed) Tolkien: A Celebration, Birzer's Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth, and Lobdell's (ed) A Tolkien Compass. Just wondering if anyone knows of anything else out there I've overlooked that might be useful--and thought this topic might spark some convo regarding existing criticism.

Sorry if this should have been attached to a pre-existing thread, but the angle seemed different enough to warrant its own. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]

[ April 09, 2003: Message edited by: Carorëiel ]