Here's a list of books on Tolkien and Lewis that were helpful to me in researching and writing Talking of Dragons, or that may be interesting to the general reader. Also included are a few audio and print resources that may be helpful. To this list could be added other books that have since been released, such as The Narnian by Alan Jacobs, The Way Into Narnia by Peter J. Schakel, and Planet Narnia by Michael Ward.
Books:
Bradley J. Birzer
J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth
Devin Brown
Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Kurt Bruner and Jim Ware
Finding God in The Lord of the Rings
Finding God in the Land of Narnia
Humphrey Carpenter
J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography
The Inklings: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Their Friends
David Day
A Guide to Tolkien
Colin Duriez
A Field Guide to Narnia
The Inklings Handbook: The Lives, Thought and Writings of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, Owen Barfield and their Friends
Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship
The J.R.R. Tolkien Handbook: A Concise Guide to His Life, Writings, and World of Middle-earth
Paul F. Ford
Companion to Narnia: A Complete Guide to the Enchanting World of C.S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia
Kathryn Lindskoog
Journey Into Narnia
C. S. Lewis: Mere Christian
Light in the Shadowlands: Protecting the Real C. S. Lewis
How to Grow a Young Reader: Books from Every Age for Readers of Every Age (with Ranelda Mack Hunsicker)
George MacDonald (the author that C. S. Lewis called his ‘master’)
Phantastes
Lillith
The Princess and the Goblin
The Princess and Curdie
At the Back of the North Wind
The Gifts of the Child Christ & Other Stories and Fairy Tales
Michael D. O’Brien
A Landscape With Dragons: The Battle for You Child’s Mind
Joseph Pearce
Tolkien: A Celebration
Frederick Rebsamen
Beowulf: A Verse Translation (Beowulf was one of the most influential writings in the life and work of J.R.R. Tolkien)
Tom Shippey
The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
Mark Eddy Smith
Tolkien’s Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of The Lord of the Rings
Turgon (from theonering.net)
The Tolkien Fan’s Medieval Reader (Texts of many of the Old English, Middle English, Old Norse, and Celtic tales that shaped Tolkien’s stories)
Audio:
R. C. Sproul, Jr.
Further Up and Further In: Studies in Narnia (CD set)
Basement Tapes #24: You Don’t Know Jack (CD set on C. S. Lewis)
Douglas Wilson
What I Learned in Narnia (CD set)
Periodicals:
Christian History Magazine, Spring 2003: 'Tolkien: Man Behind the Myth'
Credenda/Agenda: Volume 13, Issue 5: 'Jack: A Reformed Appreciation of C. S. Lewis'
St Austin Review, January, February 2003: 'Tolkien Revisited' (see especially Bradley J. Birzer’s fine article, ‘Grace and Will in Tolkien’s Legendarium’)
Websites/web articles:
theonering.net (Tolkien Fan site)
lordoftherings.net (Official Lord of the Rings movie site)
narniaweb.com (Narnia movie news)
Narnia.com (Official Narnia movie site)
Into the Wardrobe (Good C. S. Lewis site)
The Tolkien Library (The books of Tolkien)
Christianity Today (Interview with Colin Duriez, my editor for Talking of Dragons, on the friendship of Tolkien and Lewis)
Why the Lord of the Rings is Dangerous (Fascinating email conversation between Bradley J. Birzer, who wrote the foreword to my book on Tolkien and Lewis, and Mark Eddy Smith)
