Selected Bibliograpy: Tolkien, Visualization, and Fantasy

Cameron Bourquein

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Agøy, Nils Ivar. “Vague or Vivid?: Descriptions in The Lord of the Rings.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 10, West Virginia UP, 2013, pp. 49-67.

Blok, Cor. A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to Accompany The Lord of the Rings. HarperCollins, 2011.

Cavanagh, Patrick. “The Artist as Neuroscientist.” Nature, vol 434, 17 Mar, 2005, pp. 301-7.

Cook, Simon J. "How to Do Things with Words: Tolkien’s Theory of Fantasy in Practice." Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 3, iss. 1, article 6, 2016. Link.

Dickerson, Matthew. “‘As Like and as Unlike the Forms that We Give Them’: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Vision of Art and Creativity in a Fallen World.” J. R. R. Tolkien and the Arts: a Theology of Subcreation, editors Ned Bustard and Melody Green, Square Halo Books, 2021, pp. 43-56.

Fox-Lenz, Alicia. “Digital Mythopoeia: Exploring Modern Myth-Making in The Legend of Zelda.” Mythopoeic Narrative in The Legend of Zelda (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Book 115). Editors Anthony Cirilla and Vincent Rone, Taylor & Francis, Kindle Edition, 2020, pp. 17-32.

Garbowski, Christopher. "It's a Wonderful Life as Faërian Drama." Mythlore, vol. 23, no. 4, article 4, 2002. Link.

Griggs, Jessica. “Brain-hacking art: Making an emotional impression.” New Scientist, 15 Sept. 2010. Link.

Hammond, Wayne G. and Christina Scull. J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator. HarperCollins, 1995.

Harl, Allison. "The Monstrosity of the Gaze: Critical Problems with a Film Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings," Mythlore, vol. 25, no. 3, article 7, 2007. Link.

Holdier, A.G. "On Superhero Stories: The Marvel Cinematic Universe as Tolkienesque Fantasy," Mythlore, vol. 36, no. 2, article 6, 2018. Link.

Holmes, John R.. “Art and Illustrations by Tolkien.” J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, Scholarship and Critical Assessment, editor Michael D. C. Drout, Routledge, 2007, pp. 27-32.

---. "Fore and Aft, Abstraction in Tolkien’s “Ishness” Designs." Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 7, iss. 1, article 8, 2019. Link.

Juričková, Martina. "Tolkien’s Coleridgean Legacy," Journal of Tolkien Research, vol. 15, iss. 1, article 8, 2022. Link

Lacon, Ruth. “To Illustrate or Not to Illustrate—That is the Question. . . .” Tolkien Library. 14 Jan. 2012. Link.

MacLeod, Jeffrey J. and Anna Smol. “Visualizing the Word, Tolkien as Artist and Writer.” Tolkien Studies, vol. 14, West Virginia UP, 2017, pp. 115-131.

Makai, Péter Kristóf. “Games and Gaming, Quantasy.” A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture Book 189), editor Stuart D. Lee, Wiley, Kindle Edition, 2014, pp. 530-44.

Medeiros, Pedro. “My Thoughts on Very Low Resolution.” Kano, 7 Dec. 2020. Link.

Moher, Aidan. Fight, Magic, Items, The History of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and the Rise of Japanese RPGs in the West, Running Press, 2022.

Pepperell, Robert. “Connecting Art and the Brain, An Artist's Perspective on Visual Indeterminacy.” Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 5, article 84, 17 Aug., 2011. Link.

Rosebury, Brian. Tolkien, A Cultural Phenomenon. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Ross, Bethany. “Words with Wings, Divinely Inspired Imagination in Thought, Language, and Reason.” J. R. R. Tolkien and the Arts, a Theology of Subcreation, editors Ned Bustard and Melody Green, Square Halo Books, 2021, pp. 31-42.

Seeman, Chris. "Tolkien's Revision of the Romantic Tradition," Mythlore, vol. 21, no. 2, article 15, 1996. Link.

Starr, Charlie W. “Art and Story, Tolkien’s Theory of Myth.” J. R. R. Tolkien and the Arts, a Theology of Subcreation, editors Ned Bustard and Melody Green, Square Halo Books, 2021, pp. 7-30.

Tolkien, J. R. R.. Tolkien on Fairy-Stories, editors Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, Harper Collins Publishers, 2014.

Waelder, Pau. “Yusuke Shigeta, pixel art and the history of image making.” Niio. 3 Mar. 2024. Link.