Bibliography assembled by Didier Willis.
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.
This booklet is distributed as a PDF document under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 (CreativeCommons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license).
The full book sources are available here, for people interested in digital typesetting. The reference bibliography files, in a simplified subset of the BibTeX format, are also all available under CC-BY-SA 4.0 (CreativeCommons Attribution Share-Alike license).
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 introduction chapters, to report corrections or propose emendations and additions. While you can do so by writing to the 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 you do not really have to be a "développer", 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]
READ/DOWNLOAD BELOW (PDF)
The "Summer 2024 edition" (published August 2024) included about 2,657 references.
To keep this work current through the end of the year, newly published works have been incorporated. Several errors and omissions from the previous edition have also been addressed. I’m grateful to everyone who contributed by adding references, correcting mistakes, or suggesting improvements, with special thanks to Damien Bador, Vivien Stocker, Jean-Philippe Qadri and Jérôme Sainton.
The revised "Winter 2024 edition" (published January 2025) now features approximately 2,788 references.
Book composed with the experimental SILE typesetter and the re·sil·ient collection of modules.
To download the PDF, 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.