Tolkien: A Celebration

Tolkien: A Celebration. Collected Writings on a Literary Legacy (ISBN 0-89870-866-4) is a collection by Joseph Pearce of fourteen essays and articles about J.R.R. Tolkien, written and contributed by different Tolkien scholars and by acquaintances of his. It was published by HarperCollins (UK) in 1999, and is dedicated to Owen Barfield, the first of the Inklings, who had died two years before.

A new edition was published in 2001 by Ignatius Press (San Francisco).

Table of contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication

1. "Recollections of J.R.R. Tolkien" by George Sayer
2. "Over the Chasm of Fire: Christian Heroism in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings" by Stratford Caldecott
3. "Modernity in Middle-earth" by Patrick Curry
4. "J.R.R. Tolkien and the Art of the Parable" by Robert Murray SJ
5. "The Lord of the Rings - A Catholic View" by Charles A. Coulombe
6. "On the Reality of Fantasy" by James V. Schall SJ
7. "J.R.R. Tolkien: A Mythology for England" by Elwin Fairburn
8. "The Sense of Time in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" by Kevin Aldrich
9. "Tolkien and the Catholic Literary Revival", Joseph Pearce
10. "A Far-Off Gleam of the Gospel: Salvation in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" by Colin Gunton
11. "Root and Tree: The Growth of Tolkien's Writings" by Richard Jeffery
12. "J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of Middle-earth" by Stephen R. Lawhead
13. "The Passion According to Tolkien" by Sean McGrath
14. "The Other Oxford Movement: Tolkien and the Inklings" by Walter Hooper
15. "Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: An Interview with Walter Hooper"

• Index

Translations around the world

Foreign Language	Translated name
Afrikaans	Tolkien: 'N Viering
Albanian	Tolkien: Një Festim
Arabic	تولكين: احتفال
Armenian	Թոլքին: Տոնակատարություն
Azerbaijani	Tolkin: Bir bayrametmə
Basque	Tolkien: Ospakizuna
Belarusian Cyrillic	Толкін: Святкаванне
Bengali	টলকিন: উদযাপন
Bosnian	Tolkien: Proslava
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Толкин: А Празнуване
Catalan	Tolkien: Una Celebració
Cebuano	Tolkien: Usa ka selebrasyon
Chinese	托爾金: 一个庆典
Croatian	Tolkien: Slavlje
Czech	Tolkien: Oslava
Danish	Tolkien: En Fejringen
Dutch	Tolkien: Een Viering
Estonian	Tolkien: Tähistamine
French	Tolkien: Une Célébration
Galician	Tolkien: Unha Celebración
Georgian	ტოლკინი: ზეიმი
German	Tolkien: Eine Feier
Greek	Τόλκιν: Μια Εορτασμός
Gujarati	ટોલ્કિયન: એક ઉજવણી
Haitian Creole	Tolkien: Yon Selebrasyon
Hebrew	טולקין: חגיגה
Hindi	टोल्किन: एक उत्सव
Hungarian	Tolkien: Ünneplés
Icelandic	Tolkien: Hátíðahald
Indonesian	Tolkien: Sebuah perayaan
Irish Gaelic	Tolkien: Ceiliúradh
Italian	Tolkien: Una Celebrazione
Japanese	トールキン: セレブレイション
Kannada	ಟೊಲ್ಕಿನ್: ಒಂದು ಆಚರಣೆ
Kazakh	Толкиен: Мереке (Cyrillic) Tolkïen: Мереке (Latin)
Korean	톨킨: 축전
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	Толкин: Майрамдоо
Latin	Tolkien: A Celebrationem
Latvian	Tolkien: Svinības
Lithuanian	Tolkien: Šventimas
Luxembourgish	Tolkien: Eng Feier
Macedonian Cyrillic	Толкин: Прослава
Malagasy	Tolkien: Fankalazana
Malaysian	Tolkien: Sambutan
Maltese	Tolkien: Ċelebrazzjoni
Marathi	टॉल्कीन: उत्सव
Mongolian Cyrillic	Толкин: Баяр
Nepalese	टोल्किएन: एक उत्सव
Norwegian	Tolkien: En Feiring
Persian	تالکین: جشن
Polish	Tolkien: Celebrowanie
Portuguese	Tolkien: Uma Celebração
Punjabi	ਟੋਲਕੀਅਨ: ਇੱਕ ਜਸ਼ਨ
Romanian	Tolkien: O Sărbătoare
Russian	Толкин: Празднование
Scottish Gaelic	Tolkien: Subhachas
Serbian	Толкин: Прослава (Cyrillic) Tolkin: Proslava (Latin)
Sinhalese	ටොලිකින්: උත්සවයක්
Slovak	Tolkien: Oslava
Slovenian	Tolkien: Praznovanje
Spanish	Tolkien: Una Celebración
Swahili	Tolkien: Sherehe
Swedish	Tolkien: En Firandet
Tamil	டோல்கீன்: ஒரு கொண்டாட்டம்
Telugu	టోల్కీన్: ఒక వేడుకలు
Thai	โทลคีน: การเฉลิมฉลอง
Urdu	ٹولکین: جشن
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Толкін: Святкування
Welsh	Tolkien: Dathliad
Yiddish	טאָלקיען: א סעלעבראַטיאָן