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# The Tolkien Companion
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/53356/
- Published: 2021-01-30T22:35:10.000Z
- Updated: 2021-01-30T22:35:10.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Literature, Tolkien, #wpChunk

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I earlier endorsed *The Complete Guide to Middle Earth* by Robert Foster.

But if you're really into Tolkien and literary oddities, check out J.E.A. Tyler's *[The Tolkien Companion](https://amzn.to/3r68JBB?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)* (as a matter of aesthetics, principle, and everything that is good on this earth, I normally don't endorse anyone with four names, btw).

It's not nearly as thorough as Foster's book.

And in fact, as a youngster I found its lack of information downright maddening at times.

It wasn't until years later that I realized it came out in 1976 from St. Martin's Press. . . the year before George Allen & Unwin released *The Silmarillion*.

So J.EA. put together that companion, with lots of material from the First Age of Middle Earth (which is the subject of The Silmarillion) from a close reading of *The Hobbit* and *The Lord of the Rings* trilogy. In light of that incredible handcuff, J.E.A.'s 500-page book was quite an accomplishment.

I can't imagine his and St. Martin Press's enormous disappointment when the book became obsolete just a year later with the release of *The Silmarillion*, but it apparently sold well enough to merit a paperback release.