John D. Rateliff (born 9 December 1958) is an American independent scholar of fantasy literature and author of roleplaying games. He specializes in the...

Rateliff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: John D. Rateliff, American author of roleplaying games and independent scholar Nathaniel...

of the Kalevala". "Tolkien's legendarium" is defined narrowly in John D. Rateliff's The History of The Hobbit as the body of Tolkien's work consisting...

contains Tolkien's unpublished drafts of the novel, with commentary by John D. Rateliff. It details Tolkien's various revisions to The Hobbit, including abandoned...

Withywindle river, calling her "River-woman's daughter". The Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff suggests that, at least in terms of Tolkien's early mythology, she...

Honor of Tom Shippey (2014), edited by John Wm. Houghton, Janet Brennan Croft, Nancy Martsch, John D. Rateliff, and Robin Anne Reid". Journal of Tolkien...

of Lake-town a legitimate claim to Smaug's treasure. According to John D. Rateliff, Bard may have been inspired by Wiglaf in the Old English poem Beowulf...

Westron): "Balin, son of Fundin, Lord of Moria". The Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff writes that Balin is the only Dwarf of Thorin's company whose name...

the medieval image of Jews, while, according to the Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff, their warlike nature stems from accounts in the Hebrew Bible. Medieval...

living things like animals and plants—possess human-like intelligence. John D. Rateliff calls this the "Doctor Dolittle Theme" in The History of The Hobbit...

Icelandic Gods". ScienceAlert. Archived from the original on Dec 16, 2023. John D. Rateliff (2007), The History of The Hobbit, volume 2 Return to Bag-End, HarperCollins...

added until Tolkien reviewed the page proofs of the completed book. John D. Rateliff and Jared Lobdell are among those to write that the scene shows similarities...

was published separately, in two volumes, in 2007 and was edited by John D. Rateliff. Charles Noad, reviewing The War of the Jewels in Mallorn, comments...

Bombadil's unlocking words to Old Man Willow in Fangorn Forest, so, argues John D. Rateliff, as far as Jackson was concerned, there can have been no Old Man Willow...

fundamentally change the story. On the other hand, the Tolkien scholar John D. Rateliff notes that, since the Hobbits failed to acquire ancient blades from...

reconsidered the change and deleted her from the sequence. The critic John D. Rateliff wrote approvingly of the deletion of what he calls "Arwen, Warrior...

Ravenloft. In an introduction to an online edition of Ravenloft II, author John D. Rateliff described Strahd as a then-unusual fusion of a monster with the abilities...

line-up" of authors (naming Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Dimitra Fimi, John D. Rateliff and Gergely Nagy) of the work's 36 articles, and called it "joyous...

novel "would be much the less" without the chapter. Tolkien critics John D. Rateliff and Jared Lobdell have compared the sudden shrivelling of Saruman's...

dragon Smaug and a multitude of anthropomorphic goblins and elves. John D. Rateliff calls this the "Doctor Dolittle Theme" in his book The History of the...

Michael D. C. (ed.). J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. Routledge. pp. 119–120. ISBN 1-135-88034-4. Rateliff, John D. (2006)...

Húrin edited by Christopher Tolkien 2007 The History of The Hobbit by John D. Rateliff – contains substantial text fragments 2017 Beren and Lúthien edited...

suppose I must say – create Ankh-Morpork as a takeoff of Lankhmar"); John D. Rateliff notes that Leiber's characters "the Gray Mouser and Fafhrd guest-star...

adventures. For description and history of Adventures/Modules see Adventure (D&D). Adventures for various campaign settings are listed in different articles...

or the Dagor Dagorath, the battle that marks the end of the world (John D. Rateliff's hypothesis). The figure of Ancalagon is compared with the dragon Miðgarðsormr...

scholar Ann McCauley believed that she is likely a water sprite, while John D. Rateliff suggested that, at least within the context of Tolkien's early mythology...

of animals. The Independent (online). Retrieved 23 December 2012. Rateliff, John D. "Classics of Fantasy". Wizards of the Coast, Inc. Archived from the...

modules. For description and history of Adventures/Modules, see Adventure (D&D). For adventures set in the Forgotten Realms setting, see the List of Forgotten...

volumes on the construction of The Hobbit with commentary by the scholar John D. Rateliff Poems and Songs of Middle Earth (1967) – poems read by Tolkien; songs...

a substantial expansion. Return to the Keep on the Borderlands, by John D. Rateliff, took Gary Gygax's 1979 module, B2 Keep on the Borderlands and restocked...