Bibliography: Feminist/Gender/Queer Tolkien Scholarship

1971-present

Updated: November 25, 2024

I am updating the publications in 2023 and 2024 and have decided to begin including theses & dissertations as well as published conference papers to create as full a record as possible. Feel free to share!

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The kernel of this bibliography is the research I did for my essay, "The History of Scholarship on Female Characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium: A Feminist Bibliography," published in Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie Donovan’s Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien anthology which was published in 2015 (good grief, the 10th anniversary is appearing on the horizon!). As with any publication, the bibliography was effectively out of date when it appeared in print.

I described the essay as a “feminist bibliography” not because I only covered feminist scholarship on Tolkien (because not all scholarship on “women” is necessarily feminist) but because I am a feminist. As a feminist and an academic who is within a few years of 70, I have been observing the ways in which “feminist studies,” “gender studies,” and “queer studies” (in academic spaces and discourses) have developed as the new theories and applications inspired my work in different ways. I think there are intriguing overlaps, similarities and differences.

I decided to focus this bibliography on what I’m calling “Feminist/Gender/Queer” scholarship (as a nod to the meaning of the virgule in slash fanfiction which sort of begins to express some of the complex entanglements and conflicts in the theoretical webs).

As always, additions, corrections, and commentary are welcome!

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1971-1999

1971

Myers, Doris T. “Brave New World: The Status of Women According to Tolkien, Lewis, and Williams.” Cimarron Review, 17, 1971, pp.13-19.

1979

Goselin, Peter Damien. “Two Faces Of Eve: Galadriel and Shelob as Anima Figures,” Mythlore, vol. 6, no. 3, article 1, 1979. Link.

1982

Johnson, Janice. “The Celeblain of Celeborn and Galadriel,” Mythlore, vol. 9, no. 2, article 5, 1982. Link.

Partridge, Brenda. “No Sex Please--We’re Hobbits: The Construction of Female Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings.” J. R. R. Tolkien: This Far Land, edited by Robert Giddings, Critical Studies Series, Vision (UK), Barnes & Noble (US), 1983, pp. 179–97. Link.

1984

Rawls, Melanie. “The Feminine Principle in Tolkien,” Mythlore, vol. 10, no. 4, article 2, 1984. Rpt. in Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 99-117. Link.

1989

Startzman, L. Eugene. “Goldberry and Galadriel: The Quality of Joy,” Mythlore, vol. 16, no. 2, article 14, 1989. Link

1996

Crowe, Edith L. “Power in Arda: Sources, Uses and Misuses,” Mythlore, vol. 21, no. 2, article 40, 1996. Rpt. In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 136-49. Link.

Doughan, David. “Tolkien, Sayers, Sex and Gender,” Mythlore, vol. 21, no. 2, article 53, 1996. Link

Drout, Michael D. C. “The Influence of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Masculinist Medievalism.” Medieval Feminist Newsletter, 22, 1996, pp. 26-27. Link.

Fenwick, Mac "Breastplates of Silk: Homeric Women in The Lord of the Rings," Mythlore, vol. 21, no. 3, article 4, 1996. Link.

Hopkins, Lisa. “Female Authority Figures in the Works of Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams,” Mythlore, vol. 21, no. 2, 1996, article 55. Link.

1998

Green, William H. “’Where’s Mama?’ The Construction of the Feminine in The Hobbit.” The Lion and the Unicorn, vol. 22, no.2, 1998, pp. 188-195. Project Muse Link.

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2000-2009

2000

Ringel, Faye. “Women Fantasists: In the Shadow of the Ring.” In J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth. Edited by George Clark and Daniel Timmons. Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy, no. 89, Greenwood Press, 2000, pp. 159-171. Review of anthology link.

2001

Craig, David M. "'Queer Lodgings': Gender and Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings." Mallorn, vol. 38, Jan. 2001, pp. 11–18. Link. Rpt. “Queer Lodgings: Gender and Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings - Reprinted with a New Introduction by the Author.” Mallorn, no. 61, 2020, pp. 20–29. Link.

Timmons, Daniel. "Hobbit Sex and Sensuality in The Lord of the Rings," Mythlore, vol. 23, no. 3, article 7, 2001, Link.

2003

Donovan, Leslie A. “The Valkyrie Reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen.” Tolkien the Medievalist, edited by Jane Chance, Routledge, 2003, pp. 106–32. Rpt. Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 221–57. Link.

2004

Battis, Jes. "Gazing Upon Sauron: Hobbits, Elves, and the Queering of the Postcolonial Optic." In Hughes, 2004, pp. 908-26. Project Muse Link.

Hooker, Mark T. "Frodo's Batman." Tolkien Studies, vol. 1, 2004, pp. 125-36. Project Muse Link

Hughes, Shaun F. D., editor. "J. R. R. Tolkien Special Issue." Mfs: Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 50, iss. 4, Winter 2004. Review.

Rosenthal, Ty. "Warm Beds are Good: Sex and Libido in Tolkien's Writing." Mallorn, vol. 42, 2004, pp. 35-42. Link.

Smol, Anna. "'Oh . . .oh . . . Frodo!': Readings of Male Intimacy in The Lord of the Rings." In Hughes, 2004, pp. 949-979. Project Muse Link.

Vink, Renée. “The Wise Woman's Gospel. Some Thoughts about 'The Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth.’” Lembas Extra 2004. Rpt. in Gleanings from Tolkien's Garden. Selected Essays, Beverwijk: Uitgeverij IJmond, 2020, pp. 65-82. Publisher Link (Lembas).

2005

Bernard, Carol A. Gollum: The Fulcrum of Desire in J. R. R. Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings.' Dissertation. University of Houston, 2005.

2006

Benvenuto, Maria Raffaella. "Against Stereotype: Éowyn and Lúthien as 20th-Century Women." In Weinreich and Honegger, 2006, pp. 31-54.

Brayton, Jennifer. "Fic Frodo Slash Frodo: Fandoms and The Lord of the Rings." In Mathijs and Pomerance, 2006, pp. 137-153.

Chance, Jane. "Tolkien and the Other: Race and Gender in the Middle Earth." In Chance and Siewers, 2006, pp. 171-186.

Chance, Jane, and Alfred K. Siewers, editors. Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages. Palgrave, 2008. Publisher Link. Project Muse Link.

Eaglestone, Robert, editor. Reading The Lord of the Rings: New Writings on Tolkien's Trilogy, Continuum, 2006. Publisher Link. Review.

Fife, Ernelle "Wise Warriors in Tolkien, Lewis, and Rowling," Mythlore, vol. 25, no. 1, article 11, 2006. Link.

Goldberg, Ruth, and Krin Gabbard. "'What Does the Eye Demand': Sexuality, Forbidden Vision and Embodiment in The Lord of the Rings." In Mathijs and Pomerance, 2006, pp. 265-281.

Kaveney, Roz. "In the Tradition. . ." In Eaglestone, 2006, pp. 162-175.

McLarty, Lianne. "Masculinity, Whiteness, and Social Class in The Lord of the Rings." In Mathijs and Pomerance, 2006, pp. 173-188.

Mathijs, Ernest and Murray Pomerance, editors. From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's "Lord of the Rings." Contemporary Cinema, 3. Rodopi, 2006. Publisher Link.

Michel, Laura. "Politically Incorrect: Tolkien, Women, and Feminism." In Weinrich and Honegger, 2006, pp. 55-76.

Neville, Jennifer. "Women." In Eaglestone, 2006, pp. 101-10.

Saxey, Esther. "Homoeroticism." In Eaglestone, 2006, pp. 124-137.

Sturgis, Amy H. "Reimagining Rose: Portrayals of Tolkien's Rosie Cotton in Twenty-First Century Fan Fiction," Mythlore, vol. 24, no. 3, article 10, 2006. Link.

Weinreich, Frank, and Thomas Honegger, editors. Tolkien and Modernity 1. Cormarë Series 9. Walking Tree, 2006, Publisher Link. Review.

2007

Armstrong, Helen. "Arwen." In Drout, 2007, pp. 38-39.

Carter, Susan. "Galadriel and Morgan le Fey: Tolkien's Redemption of the Lady of the Lacuna," Mythlore, vol. 25, no. 3, article 8, 2007. Link.

Croft, Janet Brennan, editor. Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language. Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2, McFarland, 2007. Publisher Link. Review.

Dickerson, Matthew. "Finwë and Míriel." In Drout, 2007, pp. 212-3.

Drout, Michael D. C., editor. J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. Routledge, 2007. Publisher Link. Project Muse Link. Retrospective by a Contributor

Enright, Nancy. "Tolkien's Females and the Defining of Power." Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 59, no. 2, 2007, pp. 93-108. Rpt. In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 118-135.

Fisher, Jason. "Galadriel." In Drout, 2007, pp. 227-8.

Fredrick, Candice and Sam McBride. "Battling the Woman Warrior: Females and Combat in Tolkien and Lewis," Mythlore, vol. 25, no. 3, article 4, 2007. Link.

Hatcher, Melissa McCrory. "Finding Woman's Role in The Lord of the Rings," Mythlore, vol. 25, no. 3, article 5, 2007. Link.

Lakowski, Romuald Ian. "The Fall and Repentance of Galadriel," Mythlore, vol. 25, no. 3, article 9, 2007. Rpt. In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 153-167. Link.

Hesser, Katherine. "Éowyn." In Drout, 2007, pp.168-69.

---. "Goldberry." In Drout, 2007, pp. 244-6.

---. "Melian." In Drout, 2007, pp. 412-3.

Houghton, John Wm. "Ungoliant." In Drout, 2007, p. 687.

Kisor, Yvette L. "'Elves And Hobbits Always Refer to the Sun as She': Some Notes on a Note in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." Tolkien Studies, vol. 4, 2007, pp. 212-222. Project Muse Link.

Lakowski, Romuald I. "'Perilously Fair': Titania, Galadriel, and the Fairy Queen of Medieval Romance." In Croft, 2007, pp. 60-78.

Leibeger, Carol A. "Women in Tolkien's Work." In Drout, 2007, pp. 710-12.

Ripley, Aline. "Feminist Readings of Tolkien." In Drout, 2007, pp. 202-3.

Seaman, Gerald. "Lúthien." In Drout, 2007, pp. 396-7.

Smith, Melissa. "At Home and Abroad: Éowyn's Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings," Mythlore, vol. 26, no. 1, article 12, 2007. Rpt in Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 204-17. Link.

Smol, Anna. "Gender in Tolkien's Works." In Drout, 2007, pp. 233-5.

Thum, Maureen. "Hidden in Plain View: Strategizing Unconventionality in Shakespeare's and Tolkien's Portraits of Women." In Croft, 2007, pp. 229-50. Rpt. In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 281-305.

Tubbs, Patricia. "Juliana." In Drout, 2007, pp. 313-7.

Zettersten, Arne. "Ancrene Wisse." In Drout, 2007, pp. 15-16.

2008

Basso, Ann McCauley. "Fair Lady Goldberry, Daughter of the River," Mythlore, vol. 27, no. 1, article 12, 2008. Link.

Taylor, Taryne Jade. "Investigating the Role and Origin of Goldberry in Tolkien's Mythology," Mythlore, vol. 27, no. 1, article 13, 2008. Link.

Klinger, Barbara. "What Do Female Fans Want? Blockbusters, The Return of the King, and U.S. Audiences." Watching The Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's World Audiences, edited by Martin Barker and Ernest Mathijs, Media and Culture vol. 3, Peter Lang, 2008, pp. 69–82. Publisher Link.

Doughan, David. "Women, Oxford and Tolkien." Mallorn, vol. 45, 2008. p,. 16–20. Link.

Domínguez Ruiz, Beatriz. "Mimetic Patterns of Masculinity or Just Another Fantasy Book." Atenea, vol. 28, no. 2, 2008, pp. 135-44. Link with excerpt.

2009

Chance, Jane. "'In the Company of Orcs': Peter Jackson's Queer Tolkien." Queer Movie Medievalisms, edited by Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tyson Pugh, Routledge,, 2009, pp. 79-96. Publisher Link

Reid, Robin Anne. "Thrusts in the Dark: Slashers' Queer Practices." Extrapolation, vol. 50, no.3, 2009 pp. 463-483.

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2010-2019

2010

Kroner, Susanne. "'Still Not King'-The Very Secret Diaries: Tolkien Fan Fiction between Book-Verse and Movie-Verse." Inklings: Jahrbuch Für Literatur Und Ästhetik, vol. 28, 2010, pp. 107-117.

Whitaker, Lynn. "Corrupting Beauty: Rape Narrative in The Silmarillion." Mythlore, vol. 29, no. 1, article 5, 2010. Link.

2011

Cuntz-Leng, Vera. "Frodo Auf Abwegen: Das Queere Potential Des Aktuellen Fantasykinos." Zeitschrift Für Fantastikforschung, vol.1, 2011, pp. 24-43.

Downey, Sarah. "Cordial Dislike: Reinventing the Celestial Ladies of Pearl and Purgatorio in Tolkien's Galadriel," Mythlore, vol. 29, no. 3, article 8, 2011. Link.

Miesel, Sandra. "Life-Giving Ladies: Women in the Writings of J. R. R. Tolkien." Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work, edited by Paul E. Kerry and Sandra Miesel. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2011, pp. 139-52. Publisher Link.

Ray, Stella M. Constructions of Gender and Sexualities in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. Texas A&M U, Commerce, 2011, 1303-03. vol. 72.

Wallace, Anna. "A Wild Shieldmaiden of the North: Éowyn of Rohan and Old Norse Literature." Philament, vol. 17, 2011, pp. 23-45.

2013

Błaskiewicz, Maria. "Tolkien's Queen-Women in The Lord of the Rings." In Kowalik, 2013, pp. 69-91.

Kowalik, Barbara, editor. 'O, What a Tangled Web': Tolkien and Medieval Literature, a View from Poland. Cormarë Series no. 29, Walking Tree P, 2013. Publisher Link.

Kowalik, Barbara. "Elbereth the Star-Queen Seen in the Light of Medieval Marian Devotion." In Kowalik, 2013, pp. 93-113.

Reid, Robin Anne. "Light (noun, 1) or Light (adjective, 14b)? Female Bodies and Femininities in The Lord of the Rings." In Vaccaro, 2013, pp. 98-118.

Rogers, Hope. "No Triumph without Loss: Problems of Intercultural Marriage in Tolkien's Works." Tolkien Studies, vol. 10, 2013, pp. 69-87. Project Muse Link.

Vaccaro, Christopher, editor. The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-Earth Corporeality. McFarland, 2013. Publisher Link. Review.

Williamson, James T. "Emblematic Bodies: Tolkien and the Depiction of Female Physical Presence." In Vaccaro, 2013, pp. 134-56.

2014

Campbell, Lori M., editor. A Quest of Her Own: Essays on the Female Hero in Modern Fantasy, McFarland, 2014. Publisher Link.

Downs, Jack M. "'Radiant and Terrible': Tolkien's Heroic Women as Correctives to the Romance and Epic Traditions." In Campbell, 2014, pp. 55-75.

Solomons, Sunny. "Tauriel in the Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." Amon Hen, vol. 246, 2014, pp. 13-14.

Workman, Sarah. "Female Valor Without Renown: Memory, Mourning and Loss at the Center of Middle-earth." In Campbell, 2014. pp. 76–93.

2015

Agan, Cami D. "Lúthien Tinúviel and Bodily Desire in the Lay of Leithian." In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 168-188.

Coker, Cait and Karen Viars. "Looking for Lothíriel: The Presence of Women in Tolkien Fandom." The Lord of the Rings, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell. Intellect, 2015, pp. 74-82. Link.

Croft, Janet Brennan, and Leslie Donovan, editors. Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J. R. R. Tolkien. Mythopoeic P., 2015. Publisher Link. Review.

Donovan, Leslie A. Approaches to Teaching Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Other Works. Modern Language Association of America, 2015. Publisher Link. Review.

Holtz-Wodzak, Victoria. "Tolkien Sidelined: Constructing the Non-Combatant in The Children of Hurin," Mythlore, vol. 33, no. 2, article 9, 2015. Link.

Kaufman, Roger. "The Amplification and Avoidance of Homosexual Love in the Translation of Tolkien's Work from Books to Films." The Fantastic Made Visible: Essays on the Adaptation of Science Fiction and Fantasy from Page to Screen edited by Matthew Kapell and Ace G. Pilkington. McFarland, 2015, pp. 117-132. Publisher Link.

LaFontaine, David. “Sex and Subtext in Tolkien’s World.” Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 22, no. 6, Nov. 2015, pp. 14–17.

Lakowski, Romuald I. "The Fall and Repentance of Galadriel." In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 153-167.

Larsen, Kristine. "The Power of Pity and Tears: The Evolution of Nienna in the Legendarium." In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 189–203.

Łaszkiewicz, Weronika. "J. R. R. Tolkien’s Portrayal of Femininity and Its Transformations in Subsequent Adaptations." Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, vol. 11, no. 4, 2015, pp. 15-28. Link.

Linton, Phoebe C. "Speech and Silence in The Lord of the Rings: Medieval Romance and the Transitions of Éowyn." In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 258-280.

Măcineanu, Laura. "Feminine Hypostases in Epic Fantasy: Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling." Gender Studies, vol. 14, no. 1, Dec. 2015, pp. 68–82. doi:10.1515/genst-2016-0005. Link.

McCormack, Una. "Finding Ourselves in the (Un)Mapped Lands: Women's Reparative Readings of The Lord of the Rings." In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 309-326

Rateliff, John. "The Missing Women: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lifelong Support for Women's Higher Education." In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 41-69.

Rees, Shelley. "Women Students and The Lord of the Rings: Showing Them Where They Fit In." In Donovan, 2015, pp. 150-156.

Reid, Robin Anne. "The History of Scholarship on Female Characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium: A Feminist Bibliography." In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 13-40.

Schroeder, Sharin. "She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Ignored: Gender and Genre in The Lord of the Rings and the Victorian Boys' Book." In Croft and Donovan, 2015, pp. 70-96.

Viars, Karen and Coker, Cait. "Constructing Lothiriel: Rewriting and Rescuing the Women of Middle-Earth From the Margins," Mythlore, vol. 33, no. 2, article 6, 2015. Link.

2016

Chance, Jane. Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature." Palgrave, 2016. Publisher Link. Review.

Coutras, Lisa. Tolkien's Theology of Beauty: Majesty, Splendor, and Transcendence in Middle-Earth. Palgrave, 2016. Specifically Chapter 8, “The Song of Luthien,” and Part VI “On Women” (Chapters 13, “Tolkien and Feminist Criticism,” 14 “The Transcendental Feminine, and 15 “The Renunciation of Power.”) Publisher Link. Review.

Măcineanu, Laura. "Masculine and Feminine Insights Into the Fantastic World of Elves: J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and Muriel Barbery’s The Life of Elves." Gender Studies, vol. 15, no. 1, Dec. 2016, pp. 270–283. doi:10.1515/genst-2017-0018. Link.

Miller, John. "Mapping Gender in Middle-earth," Mythlore, vol. 34, no. 2, article 9, 2016. Link.

2017

Amendt-Raduege, Amy. "Revising Lobelia." In Vaccaro and Kisor, 2017, pp. 77-93.

House-Thomas, Alyssa. “"Fair as Fay-Woman and Fell-Minded”: Tolkien’s Guinever.” The Inklings and King Arthur: J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, C. S. Lewis, and Owen Barfield on the Matter of Britain, edited by Sørina Higgins, Apocraphile Press, 2017, pp. 333–66. Publisher Link. Review.

Kisor, Yvette. "Queer Tolkien: A Bibliographical Essay on Tolkien and Alterity." In Vaccaro and Kisor, 2017, pp. 17-32.

Larsen, Kristine. "Medieval Organicism or Modern Feminist Science? Bombadil, Elves, and Mother Nature." In Vaccaro and Kisor, 2017, pp. 95–108.

Larsen, Kristine. "Guinevere, Grímhild, and the Corrigan: Witches and Bitches in Tolkien's Medieval Narrative Verse." Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 4, no. 2, 2017. Link.

Rohy, Valerie. "Cinema, Sexuality, Mechanical Reproduction." In Vaccaro and Kisor, 2017, pp. 111-122.

Vaccaro, Christopher. "Saruman's Sodomitic Resonances: Alain de Lille's De Planctu Naturae and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings." In Vaccaro and Kisor, 2017, 123-47.

Vaccaro, Christopher, and Yvette Kisor, eds. Tolkien and Alterity. Palgrave, 2017. Publisher Link. Review.

Vogt-William, Christine. "Brothers in Arms: Death and Hobbit Homosociality in The Lord of the Rings." Inklings: Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik, vol. 34, 2017, pp. 81-95.

Yandell, Stephen. "Cruising Faery: Queer Desire in Giles, Niggle, and Smith." In Vaccaro and Kisor, 2017, pp. 149-79.

2018

Vaccaro, Christopher (2018) "'Dyrne Langað': Secret Longing and Homo-amory in Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings," Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 6, iss. 1, article 6. Link.

2019

Croft, Janet Brennan, and Annika Röttinger. “Something Has Gone Crack”: New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War. Comarë Series No. 41, Walking Tree Press, 2019. Publisher Link. Review.

DuPlessis, Nicole M. “On the Shoulders of Humphrey Carpenter: Reconsidering Biographical Representation and Scholarly Perception of Edith Tolkien.” Mythlore, vol. 37, no. 2 [134], 2019, pp. 39–74. Link.

Fox-Lenz, Alicia. “Contemporary Reflections of War: Soldier-Servant Relationships in The Lord of the Rings and Downton Abbey. In Croft and Röttinger, 2019, pp. 345-56.

Gilbert, Felicity. “Mighty Men of War: The Impact of Gender and War in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien.” In Croft and Röttinger, 2019, pp. 319-43.

Jensen, Anika. “Flowers and Steel: The Necessity of War in Feminist Tolkien Scholarship.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 16, 2019, pp. 59–72. Link.

Larini, Gloria. “To Die for Love. Female Archetypes in Tolkien and Euripides.” Tolkien and the Classics, edited by Roberto Arduini et al., Walking Tree, 2019, pp. 25–34. Publisher Link. Review.

Schlesinger, Lynn. “Angels of Care and Houses of Healing in World War I: Their Possible Influence on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.” In Croft and Röttinger, 2019, pp. 287-318.

Zoeller, Adam P., and Thomas E. Malewitz. "Tolkien’s Allegory: Using Peter Jackson’s Vision of Fellowship to Illuminate Male Adolescent Catholic Education." Journal of Catholic Education, vol. 22, no. 1, Apr. 2019, pp. 66–83.

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2020-present

2020

Beal, Jane."Saint Galadriel?: J.R.R. Tolkien as the Hagiographer of Middle-earth.” Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 10, iss. 2, article 2, 2020, Link.

Colvin, Kathryn. "‘Her Enchanted Hair’: Rossetti, ‘Lady Lilith,’ and the Victorian Fascination with Hair as Influences on Tolkien." Mythlore, vol. 39, no. 1, 2020, pp. 133-148. Link.

Craig, David. “Queer Lodgings: Gender and Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings - Reprinted with a New Introduction by the Author.” Mallorn, iss. 61, 2020, pp. 20–29.

LaFontaine, David. “The Fellowship of the Tea Club.” Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 27, no. 4, July 2020, pp. 25–29. Link with excerpt.

Reid, Robin Anne. “Celebrating ‘Queer Lodgings.’” Mallorn, iss. 61, 2020, pp. 30–31.

Vink, Renée. “The Wise Woman's Gospel. Some Thoughts about 'The Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth.’” In Gleanings from Tolkien's Garden. Selected Essays, Beverwijk: Uitgeverij IJmond, 2020, pp. 65-82. Publisher Link . Originally published in Lembas Extra 2004.

Vossen, Emma. "There and Back Again: Tolkien, Gamers, and the Remediation of Exclusion through Fantasy Media." Feminist Media Histories, vol. 6, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 37–65.

2021

Artamonova, Maria. “Edith Tolkien in the Eye of the Beholder.” Thanks for Typing: Remembering Forgotten Women in History, edited by Juliana Dresvina, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Publisher Link.

Battis, Jes. Thinking Queerly: Medievalism, Wizardry, and Neurodiversity in Young Adult Texts. Premodern Transgressive Literature series, vol. 1, De Gruyter, 2021. Publisher Link. Review.

Bunting, Nancy, and Seamus Hamill-Keays. The Gallant Edith Bratt: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Inspiration. Comarë Series no. 46, Walking Tree Publishers, 2021. Publisher Link. Review Link.

Duarte Rufo, Alline. “A Constituição do Corpo Pela Alteridade Bakhtiniana: de O Silmarillion de J. R. R. Tolkien às Mulheres Negras Brasileiras (The constitution of the body by Bakhtinian alterity: from The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien to black Brazilian women).” Letrônica, vol. 14, no. esp (sup.), Dec. 2021, pp. 1–11. Link.

Frederick, Candice, and Sam McBride. Women Among the Inklings: Gender, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Charles Williams, Greenwood, 2021. Publisher Link. Review.

Hansen, Christopher. "The Monstrous Feminine: Ungoliant, Shelob, and Women in Tolkien’s Middle-Earth," Crossroads, no. 34, Nov. 2021, pp. 4-15. Link.

Heierli, Kathrin. “Finding the Feminine in Tolkien.” Amon Hen, vol. 290, Aug. 2021, p. 17.

Kisor, Yvette. “‘The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’: Sexuality, Imagery, and Desire in Tolkien’s Works.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 18, 2021, pp. 19–62. Project Muse Link

Lemburg, Flora Sophie. "Guþcwen and Ides Ellenrof – The Old English Warrior Woman as Role Model for Female Characters in Tolkien’s Works," Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 12, iss. 2, article 8, 2021. Link.

Miller, T. S., and Elizabeth Miller. “Tolkien and Rape: Sexual Terror, Sexual Violence, and the Woman’s Body in Middle-Earth.” Extrapolation, vol. 62, no. 2, June 2021, pp. 133–56. Publisher Link.

Pacheco, Derek. “‘Funny Queer Fits’: Masculinity and Desire in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 3, 2021, pp. 263–82. Project Muse Link.

Petersen-Deeprose, Danna. “‘Something Mighty Queer’: Destabilizing Cishetero Amatonormativity in the Works of Tolkien.” Amon Hen, vol. 290, Aug. 2021, pp. 12–16.

2022

Moore, Clare."Goddess and Mortal: The Celtic and the French Morgan le Fay in Tolkien’s Silmarillion," Mythlore, vol. 41, no. 1, article 12. Link.

Reid, Robin. “A Queer Atheist Feminist Autist Responds to Donald Williams’s ‘Keystone or Cornerstone? A Rejoinder to Verlyn Flieger on the Alleged “Conflicting Sides” of Tolkien’s Singular Self.’” Mythlore, vol. 40, no. 2 [140], 2022, pp. 196–220. Link.

Simon, Derek. "The Enigma of Goldberry: Tolkien’s Narrative Braiding of Genre- and Symbol-Related Vocabularies in the Withywindle River-Daughter," Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 15, iss. 2, article 2, 2022, Link.

2023

Brown, Sara. “Éowyn it was, and Dernhelm also”: Reading the ‘Wild Shieldmaiden’ Through a Queer Lens." Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 18, iss. 2, Article 4. Link.

Ghanbarian, Parisa, Mona Hoorvash, and Mahsa Hashemi. “Elven chora : feminine space and power in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.” BRNO Studies in English, vol.49, no.1, 2023, pp. 129-45. DOI. Link.

Haydon, Trinity. Queer Lodgings: The Quest to Find Home through LGBTQ+ Readings of Middle-earth. Thesis. Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection). 1073. (2023) Link.

Henderson, Dylan L. "’A Bleak, Barren Land’: Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings.” Mythlore, vol. 42, no. 1, 2023, article 6. Link.

Kisor, Yvette. "'We Could Do with a Bit More Queerness in These Parts': An Analysis of the Queer against the Peculiar, the Odd, and the Strange in The Lord of the Rings." Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 16, iss. 1, article 4, 2023. Link.

Mendro, Hannah. '“‘Wondered at this Change’: Queer Potential and Telling Silence in the Relationship of Legolas and Gimli." Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 18, iss. 2, article 8, 2023, Link.

Queripel, Rory M. "The Mariner (and his wife): Queering Aldarion's (A)sexuality," Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 18, iss. 2, article 12, 2023. Link.

2024

Moore, Clare. "Elmar, Aerin, and Aredhel: Female Enslavement in Tolkien’s Legendarium," Mythlore,, vol. 43, no. 1, article 9, 2024, Link.

Moore, Clare, and Leah Hagan. “A Bleak, Barren Take: A Response to “Women and Fertility in The Lord of the Rings.” Mythlore, vol. 43, no. 1, article 13, 2024, pp. 227-34. Link.

Retakh, Alexander (2024) "The Inconsistencies of Galadriel: The Influence of Earlier Legendarium in The Lord of the Rings," Mythlore, vol. 43, no. 1, article 11, 2024, pp. 185-209. Link.

Rios Maldonado, Mariana. Ethics and the encounter with the other in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth narratives. University of Glasgow, PhD thesis, 2024, Link.

Tornikoski, Johanna. ’Bag End’sa Queer Place, and Its Folk Are Queerer’: Queer Masculinities and Queerness in JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. MS thesis. University of Eastern Finland. Itä-Suomen yliopisto, 2024. Link.

Trenk, Christian S. “‘And each day after they did likewise.’ Looking at Life Together as the Fulcrum of Éowyn’s and Faramir’s Love Story," Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 19, iss. 2, article 2, 2024, Link.

Venkatesan, Emily. "A Fallen Woman of Arda: The Battle over Wills and Desire of Aredhel of Gondolin.” Cities and Strongholds of Middle-earth: Essays on the Habitations of Tolkien’s Legendarium, edited by Cami Agan. Mythopoeic Press, 2024, pp. 41-54.