Works Consulted

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Anderson, Douglas A. The Annotated Hobbit. Revised and expanded edition. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002.

Armitage, Simon. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation. W.W. Norton, 2008.

Borroff, Marie. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A New Verse Translation. W.W. Norton, 1967.

---. “The Challenge Episode: A Stylistic Interpretation.” Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Authoritative Translation, Contexts, Criticism, edited by Marie Borroff and Laura L. Howes, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2010, pp. 93–104.

---. “The Translated Text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Authoritative Translation, Contexts, Criticism, edited by Marie Borroff and Laura L. Howes, 1st ed, W.W. Norton, 2010, pp. 1–64.Chaucer, Geoffrey, and Larry Dean Benson. The Riverside Chaucer. 3. ed., [Nachdr.], Oxford Univ. Press, 2006.

Briggs, A. D. P. Alexander Pushkin: A Critical Study. Croom Helm ; Barnes & Noble Books, 1983.

Cilli, Oronzo. Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist, Luna Press Publishing, 2019.

Davis, Norman, editor. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon. 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1968.

Dunsany. The King of Elfland’s Daughter. 1924. 1st Del Rey trade paperback ed, Del Rey Impact, 1999.

Flieger, Verlyn. “Memory.” J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, edited by Michael D. C Drout, Routledge, 2007.

Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN #38 ("The Hunt").

Gollancz, Israel, editor. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Oxford University Press, 1940.

Le Guin, Ursula K.  “Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings.”  The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, 1st ed., Shambhala, 2004, pp. 95-107.

Lem, Stanislaw.  The Cyberiad.

Lewis, C. S. Magician's Nephew.

---.  “Men Without Chests.” 

---.  Mere Christianity

---.  Perelandra. 1st Scribner Classics ed, Scribner Classics, 1996.

---.  Prince Caspian

---.  The Silver Chair. 1st Harper Trophy ed, HarperTrophy, 2000.

---.  That Hideous Strength.

---.  Till We Have Faces

---.  The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.  New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.  Print.

Pushkin, Alexander.  “Count Nulin.”  Translated by Betsy Hulick, Cardinal Points Journal, vol. 12, no. 3, July 2011, pp. 112-126.  Stosvet Press, 15 January, 2018.  <http://www.stosvet.net/12/hulick/>

---.  The Gypsies and Other Narrative Poems.  Translated by Antony Wood, 1st ed, David R. Godine, 2006.

Rowling, J. K.  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.  Scholastic Inc., 2001.

Shakespeare, William.  “Lucrece” from Folger Digital Texts.  Ed. Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles.  Folger Shakespeare Library, 15 January, 2018. 

---.  King Lear

---.  Merchant of Venice

Shippey, Tom A. J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

---.  Old English Verse.  Hutchinson, 1972.

---.   “Tolkien’s Development as a Writer of Alliterative Poetry in Modern English.”  Tolkien’s Poetry, edited by Julian Eilmann and Allan Turner, Walking Tree Publishers, 2013, pp. 11-28.

“Sir Gawayn and Þe Grene Knyȝt.”  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, edited by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, Clarendon Press, 1949.  (https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/Gawain/1:1?rgn=div1;view=fulltext)

---.  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon, edited by Norman Davis, 2nd ed., Clarendon Press, 1968.

Smith, Laura Lee. “‘This is of course the way to talk with dragons’: Etiquette-Based Humour in The Hobbit,” in Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann. Zurich and Jena: Walking Tree Publishers, 2016.  107-132. 

Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. Edited by Thomas P. Roche, Penguin, 1987.

Tolkien, J. R. R. “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics.”  1936.  The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, edited by Christopher Tolkien, HarperCollins, 2006, pp. 5-48.

---. “The Happy Mariners.”  The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two, edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1st American ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1984, pp. 273-74.  The History of Middle-earth, v.2.

---.  The Hobbit.  HarperCollins Publishers, 2007.

---.  The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter with the assistance of Christopher Tolkien.  1981.  Houghton Mifflin, 2000.

---.  “The Lonely Isle” in John Garth, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth, Kindle ed., Mariner Books, 2005.

---.   The Lord of the Rings.  2nd ed. 1966.  50th Anniversary One-Volume Edition, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005.

---.  The Lord of the Rings. 50th Anniversary One-Volume Edition, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2005.

---. “Mythopoeia

---. “On Fairy-stories

Tolkien, J. R. R., translator.  “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo, edited by Christopher Tolkien, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1975, pp. 17–93.

Walker, Steve.  The Power of Tolkien’s Prose: Middle-Earth’s Magical Style.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

"bob, n.4." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2023, www.oed.com/view/Entry/20791.

"bob, v.3." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2023, www.oed.com/view/Entry/20801. 

"bobance, n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2023, www.oed.com/view/Entry/20811.

“gang, n.” Oxford English Dictionary Online, Third Edition, Mar. 2013, http://www.oed.com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/view/Entry/76566.

“ging, n.1” Oxford English Dictionary Online, Third Edition, June 2017, http://www.oed.com.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/78368.