Janet Brennan Croft is Head of Access and Delivery Services and Assistant Professor at Rutgers University Libraries. She is the author of War in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien (2005 winner, Mythopoeic Society Award for Inklings Studies). She is the editor of the refereed scholarly journal Mythlore and has edited or co-edited four other collections of literary essays: Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings; Tolkien and Shakespeare: Es-says on Shared Themes and Language; Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey; and Perilous and Fair: Women in J. R. R.