Janet Brennan Croft (born 1961) is an American Tolkien scholar and writer who has been Chair and Vice Chair of the Mythopoeic Society. She became editor of the society's scholarly journal, Mythlore, in 2006, and is a frequent contributor. She is also an associate librarian at University of Northern Iowa.
In the 2000's Croft began writing articles for Mythlore and Mythprint, as well as the Tolkien Society's journal Mallorn, and soon authored War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien, a book studying the impacts of J.R.R. Tolkien's wartime experiences. She contributed the section concerning war in Stuart D. Lee's extensive guide, A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). Croft also reviews many works of Tolkien scholarship and writes concerning literature of other Inklings.
"Three Rings for Hollywood: Scripts for The Lord of the Rings by Zimmerman, Boorman, and Beagle" in Fantasy Fiction Into Film (ed. Leslie Stratyner & James R. Keller) (2007)
"How I Learned More About Hobbits" in Silver Leaves, issue 1 (2007)
"'Bid the Tree Unfix his Earth-bound Root': Themes from Macbeth in The Lord of the Rings" in her collection Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language (2007)
"Notes and Documents: Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 4 (2007)
"Naming the Evil One: Onomastic Strategies in Tolkien and Rowling" in Mythlore 107/108, vol. 28, no. 1 (2009)
"Túrin and Aragorn: Embracing and Evading Fate" in Mythlore, vol. 20 no. 3 (2011)
"The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training Corps" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 8 (2011)
