Tolkien: maker of Middle-Earth

Essays: J.R.R. Tolkien : a biographical sketch / Catherine McIlwaine

Tolkien and the inklings / John Garth

Faërie : Tolkien's perilous land / Verlyn Flieger

Inventing Elvish / Carl F. Hostetter

Tolkien and 'that noble northern spirit' / Tom Shippey

Tolkien's visual art / Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull

Catalogue: Reading Tolkien : 'to England; to my country'

Childhood : 'born with a talent for language'

Student days : 'the beginning of the legendarium'

Sheer invention : 'new patterns of old colours'

The Silmarillion : 'the Silmarils are in my heart'

The professor's study : 'from time already mortgaged'

The hobbit : 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit'

The lord of the rings : 'it is written in my life-blood'

Mapping The lord of the rings : 'I wisely started with a map and made the story to fit.'