Charles Noad

Charles E. Noad is a literary reviewer and writer who in 1977 wrote The Trees, the Jewels and the Rings: A Discursive Enquiry Into Things Little Known on Middle-earth, and has written frequently for the Tolkien Society's journal Amon Hen.

Since 1978, he has reviewed the trilogy, the entirety of The History of Middle-earth, Douglas Charles Kane's Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion, and compilations such as J.R.R. Tolkien: Scholar and Storyteller, Root and Branch - Approaches towards Understanding Tolkien, and The Monsters and the Critics and other essays.

Works written

 * 1977 - The Trees, the Jewels and the Rings: A Discursive Enquiry Into Things Little Known on Middle-earth
 * 1979 through 2016 - at least nineteen articles in the Amon Hen (journal) and Mallorn (journal) publications of the Tolkien Society
 * 1991 - "The Natures of Tom Bombadil: A Summary", in Leaves from the Tree
 * 1992 - "The Tolkien Society" (essay), in the temporary publication Tolkien Centenary Conference 1992
 * 1995 - "Frodo and His Spectre: Blakean Resonances in Tolkien", in Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
 * 2000 - "On the Construction of The Silmarillion", in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
 * 20120 - "Fate and Freedom in Tolkien's World: Unresolvable Paradox?", in the Tolkien Society's collection Freedom, Fate and Choice in Middle-earth