Bibliography assembled by Didier Willis & Damien Bador.
Founded in 2010, Le Dragon de Brume is a non-profit association of authors and contributors whose main aim is to offer essays on the wonderful world of Middle-earth imagined by J. R. R. Tolkien, and on the fantasy genre.
Born from our need to cite and reference the extensive secondary literature on Tolkien and his legendarium, this booklet offers a bibliography of Tolkien studies in both French and English, focusing on essays and scholarly works.
As an evolving project, it welcomes suggestions for additions or corrections. This booklet is a by-product of a larger effort to create a comprehensive digital bibliography for Tolkien studies.
SUMMER 2025 UPDATE
The bibliography is available:
as a PDF booklet under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence.
as an online web version under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, with several views of the same content formatted according to several citation styles.
as a set of digital bibliography files in a (simplified) subset of the Bib(La)TeX reference format, provided under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
The full PDF booklet source files are also available here, for people interested in digital typesetting. The reference bibliography files, in a simplified subset of the BibTeX format, are also all available in the same GitHub repository.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO POTENTIAL REVIEWERS & CONTRIBUTORS:
By nature, a work like this may contain error, and be "incomplete". You are of course welcome, as stated in the foreword and in the introduction chapters, to report corrections or propose emendations and additions.
While you can do so by writing to Le Dragon de Brume's email address (as some have already started doing, and we obviously thank them for their report), but the best preferred way would be for you to:
Register an account on GitHub (assuming you dont already have one), it's a very simple process.
Then post an "issue" on the project repository. it's just a "forum-like" system there... so don't be afraid, you do not really have to be a "developer", and you do not even need to be tech-savvy to participate. (Though you might as well check existing issues before reporting anything).
[For more advanced users who do know what it means: proposing a PR is even possible and appreciated, but be sure to fist discuss it in an issue before submitting anything]
If this seems beyond your possibilities or is not a suitable option for you, please also consider getting in touch with Le Dragon de Brume via it's Discord server (see section "Participer..." for details).
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The "Summer 2025 edition" (published August 2025) features approximately 4,245 references and covers around 364 books.
The "Winter 2024 edition" (published January 2025) included approximately 2,788 references.
The "Summer 2024 edition" (published August 2024) included about 2,657 references.
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The web-friendly online version is available here.
The PDF booklet is available below. To download it, just hover your mouse on the "external window" icon normally located at the top-right of the embedded view below. It's a regular Google Drive shared file, so you then have the option to download it.