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J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. Ed. by Michael D. C. Drout. New York: Routledge, 2007. 808p. acid free $199 (ISBN 978-0-415-96942-0).
The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia aims to cover Tolkien's "life, scholarship, inspirations, cultural contexts, and social effects" (xxix). In other words, this is not the reference source for the budding Lord of the Rings fan. This is the reference source for the budding Tolkien scholar who desires to learn more about the two worlds of scholarship editor Drout mentions in the introduction: '"Tolkien Studies'-scholarship about Tolkien the author and...