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The Tolkien Scrapbook

Alida Becker

First published 1978
Publisher Grosset & Dunlap
Format Hardcover
Type Nonfiction
Cover art Tim Kirk
Pages 192
Price $17.95
ISBN 0448164558

Predominately essays, but also has some fiction and poems. Entered as NONFICTION based on ISFDB standard of using the predominate form.

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • "1978 printing"
  • No date other than year.
  • No number line
  • Cover art credits per copyright page
  • Green & Kirk's interior art credits per title page
  • Tolkien's artwork credit per caption (on preceding page)
  • Map credit per signature
  • Green's artwork is black and white drawings (in addition to the indexed interior art, Green has a number of decorative artwork through the book). Kirk's artwork is a set of color plates.
  • There are also numerous photographs of Tolkien and his life. These have not been indexed.
  • "The Last Shore" (the last color plate) is also on the back cover. Only the one is indexed here due to ISFDB software limitations preventing the same work in a publication two times.
  • "High Fly the Nazgul, Oh!" is credited as "Ted Johnstone and others"
  • "Haiku Portraits" is credited as "Don Studenaker, Ted Johnstone and others"
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • Canadian price C$19.95

Page Title Author(s) Type
9 J. R. R. Tolkien: A Short Biography Joan McClusky Essay
44 At the End of the Quest, Victory W. H. Auden Essay
50 Oo, Those Awful Orcs Edmund Wilson Essay
56 A Trip Through Middle-Earth: A Chronology of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Douglas Kendall Essay
74 Tree by Tolkien Colin Wilson Essay
90 The Filial Duty of Christopher Tolkien William Cater Essay
96 Two Views of J. R. R. Tolkien Kenneth John Atchity Essay
104 The Evolution of Tolkien Fandom Philip W. Helms Essay
110 Confessions of a Tolkien Fiend Baird Searles Essay
120 No Monroe in Lothlorien Arthur R. Weir Essay
122 Goldberry Michael Green (artist) Essay
124 Christmas at the South Pole J. R. Christopher Poem
126 A Baroque Memorial: J. R. R. Tolkien J. R. Christopher Poem
130 Two Poems in Memory of J. R. R. Tolkien Ruth Berman Poem
132 The Picnic: A Parody of Tolkien Paulette Carroll Short Story
134 The Coinage of Gondor and the Western Lands Dainis Bisenieks Short Story
138 The Passing of the Elven-Kind Ted Johnstone Poem
140 High Fly the Nazgul, Oh! Ted Johnstone & uncredited Poem
144 Middle-Earth uncredited Poem
145 Smaug the Magic Dragon uncredited Poem
146 The Orcs' Marching Song George Heap Poem
148 In the Service of the King Marci Helms Short Story
152 Haiku Portraits Don Studebaker & Ted Johnstone & uncredited Poem
154 Tales Told by the Lonely Mountain Margaret M. Howes Short Story
166 The Middle-Earth Gourmet Maureen Bayha & Alida Becker Essay
172 Tolkien of Affection: Two Puzzles Mel Rosen Essay
177 Appendix: A Gathering of Fans uncredited Essay
178 A Fan's Reading List uncredited Essay
180 A Tolkien Bibliography Bonniejean Christensen Essay
191 Solutions to Puzzles uncredited Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Tolkien Scrapbook 1979 Running Press Hardcover Nonfiction 191
The Tolkien Scrapbook 1979 Running Press Trade Paperback Nonfiction 191