The Making of Middle-Earth by Snyder, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

COVER PAGE TITLE PAGE COPYRIGHT PAGE TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE 1: LEARNING HIS CRAFT

From Africa to Birmingham Oxford The Great War Tolkien the Scholar Tolkien the Teacher The Inklings Fame and Retirement Writing Tolkien

2: TOLKIEN’S MIDDLE AGES

Back to the Sources Ancient Greece and Rome Celtic Britain and Ireland The Anglo-Saxons and Old English The Vikings and Old Norse Middle English Literature King Arthur and the Matter of Britain Victorian Fairy Tales and the Gothic Revival Finnish and The Kalevala William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites Andrew Lang George MacDonald The Northern Land

3: “THERE AND BACK AGAIN”

Hobbits and Dwarves Trolls and Goblins, Gnomes and Elves Mountains, Rings, and Riddles in the Dark Beorn Mirkwood and Lake-town Smaug Endings

4: TALES OF THE THIRD AGE

The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King

5: THE SONG OF ILÚVATAR

The Silmarillion The Children of Húrin

Appendix I: MONSTERS AND CRITICS Appendix II: MEDIA AND MIDDLE-EARTH Appendix III: TOLKIENIANA Appendix IV: THE MORAL VIRTUES OF MIDDLE EARTH A TOLKIEN TIMELINE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY AND TOLKIEN RESOURCES PICTURE CREDITS

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