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'''Janet Brennan Croft''' is an American author, editor, and Head of Access Services at the University of Oklahoma libraries. She is the editor of ''[[Mythlore|Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature]]''.<ref>"Notes on Contributors" in [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 4]] (p. 366)</ref>
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'''Janet Brennan Croft''' (b.[[1961]]) is an American author, editor, and Head of Access and Delivery Services, University Libraries at Rutgers University. She is the editor of ''[[Mythlore|Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature]]''.<ref>"Notes on Contributors" in [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 4]] (p. 366)</ref>


==Bibliography, selected==
==Bibliography, selected==
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*[[2005]]: [[Tolkien on Film|''Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings]] (editor)
*[[2005]]: [[Tolkien on Film|''Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings]] (editor)
*[[2007]]: ''[[Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language]]'' (editor)
*[[2007]]: ''[[Tolkien and Shakespeare: Essays on Shared Themes and Language]]'' (editor)
*[[2014]]: ''[[Tolkien in the New Century|Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey]]'' (co-editor)
*[[2015]]: ''[[Perilous and Fair|Perilous and Fair: Women in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work and Life]]'' (co-editor)
===Articles===
===Articles===
*[[2002]]: ''Mythlore'', Volume 23 #4
*[[2002]]: ''Mythlore'', Volume 23 #4
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*[[2004]]: ''[[Mythlore]]'' 92 (Summer/Fall 2004)
*[[2004]]: ''[[Mythlore]]'' 92 (Summer/Fall 2004)
**"'The Young Perish and the Old Linger, Withering': World War II in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien" (pp. 58-71)
**"'The Young Perish and the Old Linger, Withering': World War II in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien" (pp. 58-71)
*[[2004]]: ''Seven: An Anglo-American Literary Review'' 21
*[[2004]]: [[SEVEN 21|''SEVEN: An Anglo-American Literary Review'', Volume 21]]
**"Bid the tree unfix his earth-bound root": Themes from ''Macbeth'' in ''The Lord of the Rings''" (pp. 47-60)
**"Bid the tree unfix his earth-bound root": Themes from ''Macbeth'' in ''The Lord of the Rings''" (pp. 47-60)
*[[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
*[[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
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*[[2007]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 4]]
*[[2007]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 4]]
**"Notes and Documents: Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect" (pp. 184-188)
**"Notes and Documents: Walter E. Haigh, Author of A New Glossary of the Huddersfield Dialect" (pp. 184-188)
*[[2009]]: ''[[Mythlore]]'' 107/108, Volume 28, Issue 1/2
*[[2009]]: [[Mythlore 107/108|''Mythlore'' 107/108]], Volume 28, Issue 1/2
**"Naming the Evil One: Onomastic Strategies in Tolkien and Rowling" (pp. 149-164)
**"Naming the Evil One: Onomastic Strategies in Tolkien and Rowling" (pp. 149-164)
*[[2011]]: ''[[Mythlore]]'' 113/114, Volume 29, Issue 3/4
*[[2011]]: ''[[Mythlore]]'' 113/114, Volume 29, Issue 3/4
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*[[2011]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 8|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 8]]
*[[2011]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 8|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 8]]
**"The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training Corps"
**"The Hen that Laid the Eggs: Tolkien and the Officers Training Corps"
*[[2011]]: [[Picturing Tolkien|''Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings ''Film Trilogy'']]
**"Jackson's Aragorn and the American Superhero Monomyth"
*[[2012]]: [[Mallorn 53|''Mallorn'' 53]]
** "On the origin of ideas" (review of ''[[Tolkien and the Study of His Sources]]'')
*[[2014]]: [[Mythlore 124|''Mythlore'' 124]]
**"Tolkien’s Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions"
*[[2016]]: ''[[Journal of Tolkien Research]]'' (vol. 3, issue 1)
**"[http://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol3/iss1/2/ Bibliographic Resources for Literature Searches on J.R.R Tolkien]"
* [[2016]]: ''[[The Return Of The Ring: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Conference 2012]]''
** "Tolkien's Faërian Drama: Origins and Valedictions"
*[[2018]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 15|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 15]]
**"Doors into Elf-mounds: J.R.R. Tolkien's Introductions, Prefaces, and Forewords"


==External links==
==External links==
*[http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Janet.B.Croft-1/ Home page]
*[https://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/profile/janet-brennan_croft Home page]
*[http://middle-earth.xenite.org/2011/10/14/an-interview-with-janet-brennan-croft/ An Interview with Janet Brennan Croft] by [[Michael Martinez]]
*[http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/movies/2013/01/06/Person-of-Interest-Janet-Brennan-Croft-Tolkien-scholar/stories/201301060230  Person of Interest: Janet Brennan Croft, Tolkien scholar]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDz3Hvn7i5U "British Fantasy literature & World War I"] at OK State Library.
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Janet Brennan Croft
Biographical information
Born1961

Janet Brennan Croft (b.1961) is an American author, editor, and Head of Access and Delivery Services, University Libraries at Rutgers University. She is the editor of Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature.[1]

Bibliography, selected

Books

Articles

External links

References

  1. "Notes on Contributors" in Tolkien Studies: Volume 4 (p. 366)