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Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader
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Pages: 422
Authors: Jane Chance
Categories: Literary Criticism
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[In this book, the] essays illuminate the crucial episodes, characters, style, language, and concpets central to Tolkien's complex world.-Dust jacket.
Tolkien and the Invention of Myth
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jane Chance
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-11-05 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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At what stage in J.R.R. Tolkien's reading of other literatures and mythologies did he conceive of the fantastic mythology of Middle-earth that has become so dee
Tolkien's Art
Language: en
Pages: 278
Authors: Jane Chance
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-10-26 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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" J.R.R. Tolkien's zeal for medieval literary, religious, and cultural ideas deeply influenced his entire life and provided the seeds for his own fiction. In To
Tolkien, Race and Cultural History
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Fimi explores the evolution of Tolkien's mythology throughout his lifetime by examining how it changed as a result of his life story and contemporary cultural a
The Road to Middle-Earth
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Authors: Tom Shippey
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“Uniquely qualified to explicate Tolkien’s worldview,” this journey into the roots of the Lord of the Rings is a classic in its own right (Salon.com). Fro