Reddit reviews Tolkien and the Great War

The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide by Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond is essential to all things Tolkien.

I compiled a list with links to Free and Open Access Journals which will offer a large amount of detail not only about Tolkien but the Inklings and extended subjects.

And I recently posted a selection of unpublished letters which offer some intriguing letters that were left out of the published 'Letters of'.

The only official biography is Humphrey Carpenter's Tolkien but there are other works which I and others regard as essential. John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War is excellent. Tom Shippey's Road to Middle-earth is also worth a read. The Inklings again by Humphrey carpenter offers some valuable insights to how the Inklings interacted and includes a large amount of biographical information.

Like the 'free and open access' post I intend to compile a list of blogs in the near future so I will keep your thread in mind and post back here when I do.

For this topic, John Garth's book might be of interest.

John Garth has a wonderful book about the relationship between Tolkien's wartime experiences and his fiction. He also did a course about it for Signum, which you can now check out as an anytime audit.

This one's been done. Unlikely to be able to do better than John Garth!

By all accounts it's a fascinating and fantastic book.