Janet Brennan Croft

Janet Brennan Croft (born 1961) is an American author, editor, and Associate University Librarian for Content Discovery, University of Northern Iowa. She is the editor of Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature.

Bibliography, selected

Books

2004: War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
2005: Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings (editor)
2007: Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language (editor)
2014: Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey (co-editor)
2015: Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life (co-editor)
2019: "Something Has Gone Crack" (co-editor)

Articles

2002: Mythlore 90, Volume 23, Number 4
"The Great War and Tolkien's Memory: an examination of World War I themes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings" (pp. 4–21)
2003: Mallorn 41 (July 2003)
"'Reading Lord of the Rings: The Final Attempt': an analysis of a web community" (pp. 26–33)
2003: Proceedings of the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations (SW/TEX PCA/ACA) Years 2000-2003
"'The utter stupid waste of war': J.R.R. Tolkien on World War II"
"The Mines of Moria: 'Anticipation' and 'Flattening' in Peter Jackson's The Fellowship of the Ring"
2004: World Literature Today, January–April 2004
"Beyond The Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien's Other Works for Children" (pp. 67–70)
2004: Mallorn 42 (August 2004)
"The Morality of Military Leadership in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" (pp. 47–50)
2004: Mythlore 92 (Summer/Fall 2004)
"'The Young Perish and the Old Linger, Withering': World War II in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien" (pp. 58–71)
2004: SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Volume 21
"Bid the tree unfix his earth-bound root": Themes from Macbeth in The Lord of the Rings" (pp. 47-60)
2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
"Farmer Giles of Ham", "Gríma (Wormtongue)", "Haigh, Walter E. (1856-1931)", "Merry", "Pippin", "Rankin/Bass Productions, Inc.", "Shakespeare"
2007: Fantasy Fiction Into Film (Ed. Leslie Stratyner and James R. Keller)
"Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings by Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle." (pp. 7–20)
2007: Silver Leaves, Issue 1
"How I Learned More About Hobbits"
2007: Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language
"'Bid the Tree Unfix his Earth-bound Root': Themes from Macbeth in The Lord of the Rings"
2007: Tolkien Studies: Volume 4
"Notes and Documents: Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect" (pp. 184–188)
2009: Mythlore 107/108, Volume 28, Issue 1/2
"Naming the Evil One: Onomastic Strategies in Tolkien and Rowling" (pp. 149–164)
2011: Mythlore 113/114, Volume 29, Issue 3/4
"Túrin and Aragorn: Embracing and Evading Fate"
2011: Tolkien Studies: Volume 8
"The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training Corps"
2011: Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
"Jackson's Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth"
2012: Mallorn 53
"On the origin of ideas" (review of Tolkien and the Study of His Sources)
2014: Mythlore 124
"Tolkien’s Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions"
2015: Mythlore 127
"Noms de Guerre: The Power of Naming in War and Conflict in Middle-earth."
2016: Journal of Tolkien Research (vol. 3, issue 1)
"Bibliographic Resources for Literature Searches on J.R.R Tolkien"
2016: The Return Of The Ring: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012
"Tolkien's Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions"
2018: Tolkien Studies: Volume 15
"Doors into Elf-mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien's Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords"

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