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, his reviews have been published of J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, the entirety of The History of Middle-earth, Douglas Charles Kane's Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion[1], 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.
Noad was referred to as an "important Tolkien Scholar" by Pieter Collier in a summary of Arda Reconstructed at tolkienlibrary.com.
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 and Mallorn 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
- 2012 - "Fate and Freedom in Tolkien's World: Unresolvable Paradox?", in the Tolkien Society's collection Freedom, Fate and Choice in Middle-earth
References
- ↑ Included in this thread from the Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza