Green suns and faërie : essays on Tolkien / Verlyn Flieger.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2012], ©2012. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Tolkien sub-creator. Fantasy and reality : J.R.R. Tolkien's world and the fairy-story essay
- The music and the task : fate and free will in Middle-earth
- Tolkien and the idea of the book
- Tolkien on Tolkien : "On fairy-stories," The hobbit, and The lord of the rings
- When is a fairy story a faërie story? Smith of Wootton Major
- The footsteps of Ælfwine
- The curious incident of the dream at the barrow : memory and reincarnation in Middle-earth
- Whose myth is it?
- Part 2. Tolkien in tradition. Tolkien's Wild Men from medieval to modern
- Tolkien and the matter of Britain
- Frodo and Aragorn : the concept of the hero
- Bilbo's neck riddle
- Allegory vs. bounce : Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major, Flieger, Shippey
- A mythology for Finland : Tolkien and Lönnrot as mythmakers
- Tolkien, Kalevala, and "The story of Kullervo"
- Brittany and Wales in Middle-earth
- The Green Knight, the Green Man, and Treebeard : scholarship and invention in Tolkien's fiction
- Missing person
- Part 3. Tolkien and his century. A cautionary tale : Tolkien's mythology for England
- The mind, the tongue, and the tale
- A post-modern medievalist
- Taking the part of trees : eco-conflict in Middle-earth
- Gilson, Smith, and Baggins
- The body in question : the unhealed wounds of Frodo Baggins
- A distant mirror : Tolkien and Jackson in the looking-glass.