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There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien

By Verlyn Flieger

Book information

Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Year
2017
ISBN
2017000823, 9781606353080, 2017001133, 9781631012884, 9781631012891
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3650066 bytes)
Pages
\281
Time added
2020-04-19 16:01:50

Description

Introduction Style, Usage, and Abbreviations Note to the Reader Part One: A Perilous Land - Defining Faerie “There Would Always Be a ‘Fairy-tale’” J. R. R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy But What Did He Really Mean? Re-creating Reality War, Death, and Fairy Stories in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien Eucatastrophe and the Dark Part Two: Faerie Begins - The Nuts and Bolts of Sub-cretion Words and World-making, The Particle of Middle-earth Myth, History, and Time-travel, The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers Politically Incorrect Tolkien The Jewels, the Stone, the Ring, and the Making of Meaning Making Choices, Moral Ambiguity in Tolkien’s Major Fiction Part Three: Arresting Strangeness - Making It Different The Forests and the Trees, Sal and Ian in Faerie How Trees Behave—Or Do They? Myth and Truth in Tolkien’s Legendarium Fays, Corrigans, Elves, and More: Tolkien’s Dark Ladies Part Four: Boiling Bones; Serving Soup Tolkien, Kalevala, and Middle-earth Tolkien’s Celtic Connection Tolkien’s French Connection Drowned Lands Voyaging About, Tolkien and Celtic Navigatio Permissions Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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