"An interview with Tolkien´s Icelandic au-pair"
http://svanurg.blog.is/blog/svanurg/entry/1065767/

"An Interview with JRR Tolkien from Oxford June 1961"
http://larsgustafssonblog.blogspot.co ... -tolkien-from-oxford.html

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"Q&A Tom Shippey"
http://www.hillsdalecollegian.com/2012/03/qa-tom-shippey/

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Thanks wellinghall!

Here are a few more:

"An Interview with Tom Shippey"
http://greenbooks.theonering.net/turgon/files/060101.html

"Interview with Author Joseph Pearce on "Lord of the Rings"
http://catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0115.html

"Talking Tolkien With Thomas Shippey"
http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/mar02/shippey.htm

Recollection of his Grandfather by Simon Tolkien
http://www.simontolkien.com/mygrandfather.html

"We talked of love, death and fairy tales"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/47 ... eath-and-fairy-tales.html

"The real lord of the rings"
http://www.diamondbackonline.com/2.28 ... 33?pagereq=1#.T2TIJHkw3ng

"Tolkien's shire"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1991/ ... classics#article_continue

"The views of the author and Oxford's students on Tolkien's Middle-earth epics." (Video, only viewable in the UK)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/writers/12237.shtml

"Autobiographical essay on my grandfather, J.R.R. Tolkien"
http://www.michaeltolkien.com/page73.html

Thanks, Jlong - plenty of reading there.

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The God's Truth: An Interview (with) Ralph Bakshi
http://www.craveonline.com/film/artic ... rview-ralph-bakshi-part-1
http://www.craveonline.com/film/inter ... rview-ralph-bakshi-part-2

Out of this world: Canadian fantasy writer Guy Gavriel Kay speaks about using exotic backgrounds to tell everyday stories
http://www.timesofisrael.com/out-of-this-world/

Interview with Paul Zaentz the “Hollywood Bully” behind The Hobbit story
http://www.mintsouth.com/2012/03/inte ... -behind-the-hobbit-story/

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An (old) interview with AS Byatt, talking about Tolkien (among other things).

http://www.theparisreview.org/intervi ... -fiction-no-168-a-s-byatt

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Interview with Guy Gavriel Kay (with a brief mention of Tolkien as a "master class in harnessing myth and legend to narrative and theme" and how The Silmarillion influenced his decision to become an author):

http://www.fantasybookcafe.com/2013/0 ... iew-with-guy-gavriel-kay/

Video interview with Peter Kenny about his Tolkien collection.



Having watched this, there is not much attention on his book collection, but instead focuses mainly on the films and collectables.

The world's biggest Tolkien fan? Not while I'm alive.

It's good to hear you're still alive garm!

BH