Tolkein and Law

Jonathan A. Watson has published Tolkien and Law. Here is the abstract.

The relationship between themes found in Aquinas's "Summa Theologica" and Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" are discussed.

Download the paper from SSRN at the link. 

All Those Hobbits!

In case you have been waiting for it, here is a genealogy of Lord of the Rings characters, compiled by Emil Johannson. More here at CNN's Geekout Blog.

On law in Tolkien's writings, start with W. H. Stoddard, Law and Institutions in the Shire.

Property Law in The Lord of the Rings

Jacob Kaufman discusses property law in J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings in a post here on the blog Law is Cool. See also these follow up posts here at the Volokh Conspiracy.

[Thanks to Professor Troy Hinrichs, California Baptist University, for the cite].

Researchers might also be interested in:

Stoddard, William H., Law and Institutions in the Shire, 18 Mythlore 4-8 (Autumn 1992). This article is listed in my bibliography An International Guide to Law and Literature Studies (2000).