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University Press of Kentucky
Language
English
Pages
340

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Subjects

Criticism and interpretation, Knowledge, Mythology, English Fantasy literature, History and criticism, Invention (Rhetoric), History, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Mythology in literature, Myth in literature, Knowledge and learning

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Table of Contents

Tolkien and the rediscovery of myth / Michaela Baltasar
Light from an invisible lamp : natural religion in the Lord of the Rings / Catherine Madsen
Creating and re-creating worlds with words : the religion and the magic of language in the Lord of the Rings / Mary E. Zimmer
Tolkien as philologist / David Lyle Jeffrey
Saving the myths : the re-creation of mythology in Plato and Tolkien / Gergely Nagy
Myth, late Roman history, and multiculturalism in Tolkien's Middle-Earth / Sandra Ballif Straubhaar
From catastrophe to eucatastrophe : J. R. R. Tolkien's transformation of Ovid's Mythic Pyramus and Thisbe into Beren and Lúthien / Jen Stevens
Providence, fate, and chance : Boethian philosophy in the Lord of the Rings / Kathleen E. Dubs
Tolkien and the appeal of the pagan : Edda and Kalevala / Tom Shippey
Norse and Christian gods : the integrative theology of J. R. R. Tolkien / Marjorie J. Burns
The twilight of the elves : Ragnarök and the end of the Third Age / Andy Dimond
Gathered round northern fires : the imaginative impact of the Kolbítar / Andrew Lazo
A mythology for Anglo-Saxon England / Michael D.C. Drout
Oaths and oathbreaking : analogues of Old English Comitatus in Tolkien's myth / John R. Holmes
On the borders of old stories : enacting the past in Beowulf and the Lord of the Rings / Alexandra Bolintineanu
A mythology for Finland : Elias Lönrott and J. R. R. Tolkien as mythmakers / Verlyn Flieger
Setting the rocket off in story : the Kalevala as the germ of Tolkien's legendarium / Richard C. West
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Kalevala : some thoughts on the Finnish origins of Tom Bombadil and Treebeard / David Elton Gay.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-319) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
823/.91209
Library of Congress
PR6039.O32 Z839 2004

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xx, 340 p. ;
Number of pages
340

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OL3680822M
ISBN 10
0813123011
LCCN
2003025135
OCLC/WorldCat
54938267
Library Thing
882267
Goodreads
278977

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