John Garth

John Garth is a journalist, writer, and poet known for authoring Tolkien and the Great War, the acclaimed account of J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experience, his early poetry, and the correspondence of the T.C.B.S..

Garth studied at St. Anne's College in Oxford. Since the 1990's he has contributed to England's The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast, giving interviews of famous authors and writing book reviews. In 2004, he received the Mythopoeic Society's Scholarship Award for his extensive research and work on Tolkien and the Great War. Since that year, Garth has given many talks and two school courses on Tolkien, and written many articles for Tolkien Studies, the Cormarë Series, the Tolkien Society's Mallorn journal, and other literature. In 2005 he joined the review panel of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship's journal ''Vinyar Tengwar. ''For his expertise on Tolkien, he has also been interviewed in many documentaries.

He resides in Oxford, England.

Books & articles written
This list excludes book reviews.
 * 2003 - Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth


 * 2006 - "Frodo and the Great War" in The Lord of the Rings 1954–2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder
 * 2006 - Many articles in Michael D. C. Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
 * 2007 - "As under a green sea': visions of war in the Dead Marshes" in Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings (Cormarë Series no. 14)
 * 2008 - "Tolkien, Exeter College, and the Great War" in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration (Cormarë Series no. 18)
 * 2008 - "As under a green sea': visions of war in the Dead Marshes" in The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
 * 2009 - "Tolkien of the Many Names" (guest editorial) and "Views of a lost world" in Mallorn issue 48
 * 2011 - "Robert Quilter Gilson, T.C.B.S.: A Brief Life in Letters" in Tolkien Studies, Volume 8
 * 2014 - "The road from adaptation to invention': How Tolkien Came to the Brink of Middle-earth in 1914" in Tolkien Studies, Volume 11
 * 2014 - Tolkien at Exeter College: How an Oxford undergraduate created Middle-earth (a biography booklet)
 * 2016 - "When JRR Tolkien bet CS Lewis: the wager that gave birth to The Lord of the Rings", contributed to The Telegraph
 * 2018 - Preface to José Manuel Ferrández-Bru's Uncle Curro: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Spanish Connection
 * 2018 - "Tolkien and the Inklings", an opening essay to the Bodleian Library's Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
 * 2019 - "Ilu’s Music: The Creation of Tolkien's Creation Myth" (written in 2017 ), contributed to Walking Tree Publishers' Sub-creating Arda
 * 2020 - Tolkien's Worlds: The places that inspired the writer's imagination (forthcoming)

Documentary appearances

 * 2001 - National Geographic's Beyond the Movie: The Lord of the Rings
 * 2003 - The Real Middle-earth
 * 2004 - J.R.R. Tolkien: The Legacy of Middle-earth
 * 2014 - BBC's War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme
 * 2014 - Elliot and Zander Weaver's Tolkien's Great War
 * 2014 - JRR Tolkien, le seigneur des écrivains ('J.R.R. Tolkien, the Lord of the Writers')