Introduction by Daniel Timmons Tolkien the Bard: His Tale Grew in the Telling by C. W. Sullivan III The Dragon-Lore of Middle-earth: Tolkien and Old English and Old Norse Tradition by Jonathan Evans J.R.R. Tolkien and the True Hero by George Clark Tolkien's Versecraft in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by Geoffrey Russom The Monsters Are Talismans and Transgressions: Tolkien and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Roger C. Schlobin The Sins of the Middle-earth: Tolkien's Use of Medieval Allegory by Charles W. Nelson Is Tolkien a Renaissance Man? Sir Phillips Sidney's Defense of Poetry and J.R.R. Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories" by Tanya Caroline Wood Weaving Nets of Gloom: "Darkness Profound" in Tolkien and Milton by Debbie Sly Gagool and Gollum: Exemplars of Degeneration in King Solomon's Mines and The Hobbit by William N. Rogers II and Michael R. Underwood "Joy Beyond the Walls of the World": The Secondary World-Making of J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis by David Sandner Taking the Part of Trees: Eco-Conflict in Middle-earth by Verlyn Flieger Women Fantasists: In the Shadow of the Ring by Faye Ringel Loss Eternal in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth by W.A. Senior Orcs, Wraiths, Wights: Tolkien's Images of Evil by Tom Shippey Bibliography Index
Analyzes Tolkien's works in relation to major literary movements from ancient times to the present day.
GEORGE CLARK is Professor Emeritus and Adjunct in English at Queen's University at Kingston. He has published a book on Beowulf and numerous scholarly articles. DANIEL TIMMONS is Communication Instructor at Ryerson Polytechnic University. He has published articles and reviews on Tolkien, William Golding, and the theory of the fantastic.
.,."this collection is a thoughtful and rich resource...for
scholars interested in the literary history with which Tolkien drew
and to which he contributed, these essays provide an intriguing
range of insights that should enrich the Tolkien collections of
larger academic libraries."-SFRA Review
?...this collection is a thoughtful and rich resource...for
scholars interested in the literary history with which Tolkien drew
and to which he contributed, these essays provide an intriguing
range of insights that should enrich the Tolkien collections of
larger academic libraries.?-SFRA Review
?Recommended for public academic libraries....All
levels.?-Choice
?What all these essays have in common is their demonstration of the
rich applicability of Tolkien's work....all the contributions are
well-put and worthwhile, a bouquet of demonstrations of the depth,
subtlety, and resonance of Tolkien's fiction.?-Mythprint
?This [is a] handsome volume.?-Seven: An Anglo-American Literary
Review
?This [is a] handsome volume.??Seven: An Anglo-American Literary
Review
"This �is a� handsome volume."-Seven: An Anglo-American Literary
Review
"Recommended for public academic libraries....All
levels."-Choice
"This [is a] handsome volume."-Seven: An Anglo-American Literary
Review
"What all these essays have in common is their demonstration of the
rich applicability of Tolkien's work....all the contributions are
well-put and worthwhile, a bouquet of demonstrations of the depth,
subtlety, and resonance of Tolkien's fiction."-Mythprint
..."this collection is a thoughtful and rich resource...for
scholars interested in the literary history with which Tolkien drew
and to which he contributed, these essays provide an intriguing
range of insights that should enrich the Tolkien collections of
larger academic libraries."-SFRA Review
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