Nagy has written numerous papers of Tolkien criticism. He contributed nine entries to the 2006 J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia,[2] and a chapter on The Silmarillion to the 2014 A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien.[3] Nagy was the keynote speaker for the 19th annual Tolkien conference at the University of Vermont in 2023.[4] He has been described as an "especially well-known figure" in Tolkien scholarship who had made an "excellent contribution" to the book Sub-creating Arda. World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work with his "usual skill and insight".[5]
2005 "The Medievalist's Fiction: Textuality and Historicity as Aspects of Tolkien’s Medievalist Cultural Theory in a Postmodernist Context", In: Jane Chance, Alfred K. Siewers (ed) Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, New-York, pp. 29-41.
2013 "A Body of Myth: Representing Sauron in The Lord of the Rings", In: Christopher Vaccaro (ed) The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, pp. 119-130.
