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Many of these works are collections or more complex works that are less easy to write an abstract for. For the rest of the scholarly works on Tolkien from this time period, go here. Reviews are indicated, where available, which may provide more information about the works listed here. Most of the non-scholarly works were removed from these lists, but some, along with some reception articles, may have remained due to insufficient information to prune them out. Works from 2006-2007 are also included here, since they were not concisely summarized in Tolkien Studies Year in Review, but were included in the journals as book reviews.

2001

  • Chance, Jane Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England. [2nd ed, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001]
  • Chance, Jane. The Lord of the Rings: the Mythology of Power. [2nd ed, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001]
  • Chausse, Jean. "Icons of Jesus Christ in The Lord of the Rings." Mallorn 39: 30-32. (2001)

2002

  • Abromatis, C.N. Sue. “The Distant Mirror of Middle-earth: The Sacramental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien.” Touchstone Jan/Feb 2002: 33-39
  • Boyd, Ian. "J.R.R. Tolkien: Mythos and Modernity in Middle-Earth." The Chesterton Review 28: 1-199. (2002)
  • Flieger, Verlyn. Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World. [2nd ed, Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2002]
  • Jellema, Rod. "Auden on Tolkien: The Book That Isn't, and the House That Brought it Down." W. H. Auden: A Legacy, ed. by David Garrett Izzo. [West Cornwall, CT: 2002]: 39-45.
  • West, John G. ed. Celebrating Middle-Earth: 'The Lord of the Rings' as a Defense of Western Civilization. Seattle, WA: Inkling Books, 2002.

2003

  • Bassham, Gregory and Eric Bronson, eds. The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy: One Book to Rule Them All. [Chicago: Open Court, 2003]
  • Chance, Jane, ed. Tolkien The Medievalist. [New York: Routledge, 2003] (reviewed in Tolkien Studies Vol. 2)
  • Honegger, Thomas, ed. Tolkien in Translation. [Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2003] (reviewed in Tolkien Studies Vol 3, Mythprint 42(2):12-13 and Seven 22:118-121)

2004

  • Chance, Jane, ed. Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader. [Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 3 and Journal of the Fantastic Arts 16(1):65-68)
  • Croft, Janet Brennan, ed. War and the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien. Westport, CT; London: Praeger, 2004. (Reviewed in Mythprint 42(2): 10)
  • Downie, John. "Cyclones, Seduction, and the Middle Mind: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Illusions 36: 2-11. (2004)
  • Frank, Arthur W. "Asking the Right Question about Pain: Narrative and Phronesis." Literature and Medicine 23(2): 209-25. (2004)
  • Honegger, Thomas, ed. Translating Tolkien: Text and Film. [Zurich: Walking Tree, 2004] (Review in Tolkien Studies, vol. 3)
  • McFadden, Edward J. Deconstructing Tolkien: A Fundamental Analysis of The Lord of the Rings. [Farmingdale, NY: Padwolf, 2004]
  • Susina, Jan. "Boys and Girls Forever: Children's Classics from Cinderella to Harry Potter." Marvels & Tales 18: 124-26, 142. (2004) (Reviewed in Canadian Literature 186: 146-148)
  • Turnau, Theodore A., III. "Inflecting the World: Popular Culture and the Perception of Evil." Journal of Popular Culture 38(2): 384-96. (2004)

2005

  • Aronstein, Susan. "The Medieval Hero on Screen: Representations from Beowulf to Buffy." Arthuriana 15, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 67-68.
  • Coffman, D. Franklin, Jr. "Moral Law, Secondary Worlds, and Crossed Planes: Some Thoughts upon the Nature of Fantasy." Studies in Fantasy Literature 3: 13-18. (2005)
  • Fisher, Leona. "From Alice to Harry Potter: Children's Fantasy in England." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 30, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 212-15.
  • Goodwin, Jonathan. "A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England." MFS: 51(3): 690-92. (2005)
  • Harries, Elizabeth Wanning. "A Companion to the Fairy Tale." Marvels & Tales 19(2): 319-22, 356. (2005)
  • Hayles, N. Katherine. "Commentary: The Search for the Human." New Literary History 36 (2): 327-33, 335. (2005)
  • Heberle, Mark A. "An Inquiry into the Purposes of Speculative Fiction-Fantasy and Truth." Marvels & Tales 19 (1): 142-45, 154. (2005)
  • Honegger, Thomas, ed. Reconsidering Tolkien. [Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2005] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 3)
  • Honegger, Thomas, ed. Root and Branch [2005], reprint of the 1999 edition {fact}
  • Hoppenstand, Gary. "Editorial: Series(ous) SF Concerns." Journal of Popular Culture 38 (4): 603-4. (2005)
  • Jarman, Mark. "A Poem of Pure Enjoyment." Hudson Review 57 (4): 693-96, 698-99. (2005)
  • Puchner, Martin. "A Shrinking Island: Modernism and National Culture in England." Modernism/Modernity 12 (2): 352-53. (2005)
  • Rulyova, Natalia. "Piracy and Narrative Games: Dmitry Puchkov's Translations of The Lord of the Rings." Slavic and East European Journal 49 (4): 625-38. (2005)
  • Stan, Susan. "Books and Boundaries: Writers and Their Audiences." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 30 (2): 227-29. (2005)

2006

  • Blackham, Robert S. The Roots of Tolkien’s Middle-earth. [Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2006]
  • Croft, Janet Brennan, ed. Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language. [Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland and Company, 2007] (reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 5)
  • Gilliver, Peter, Marshall, Jeremy, and Edmund Weiner. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary. [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 4)
  • Hammond, Wayne G. and Scull, Christina. The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder. [Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2006] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol 4)
  • Hart, Trevor and Khovacs, Ivan, eds. Trees of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology. [Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2007] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 5)
  • Hazell, Dinah. The Plants of Middle-Earth: Botany and Sub-creation. [Kent, OH: Kent University Press, 2006] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 4)
  • Honegger, Thomas and Weinrich, Frank. Tolkien and Modernity 1 and 2. [Zollikofen, Switzerland: Walking Tree Publishers, 2006] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 5)
  • Hooker, Mark T. A Tolkien Mathomium: A Collection of Articles about J.R.R. Tolkien and his Legendarium. [Morrisview, NC: Llyfrawr (Lulu), 2006] (Review in Tolkien Studies, vol. 4)

2007

  • Dickerson, Matthew and O’Hara, David. From Homer to Harry Potter: A Handbook on Myth and Fantasy. [2007] {fact}
  • Reilly, R.J. Romantic Religion: A Study of Owen Barfield, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams and J.R.R. Tolkien. 2007. (reprint of a book published in 1971)
  • Shippey, Tom. Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien. [Zollikofen, Switzerland: Walking Tree Publishers, 2007] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 5)
  • Smith, Ross. Inside Language: Linguistic and Aesthetic Theory in Tolkien. [Zollikofen, Switzerland: Walking Tree Publishers, 2007] (Reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 5)
  • Whittington, Elizabeth A. The Evolution of Tolkien’s Mythology: A Study of the History of Middle-earth. [2007] {fact} (reviewed in Tolkien Studies, vol. 5)