02967nam 2200661 a 450 991082155620332120240313091802.01-283-14184-11-4438-2611-19786613141842(CKB)3360000000431399(EBL)1080549(OCoLC)816845324(SSID)ssj0000544287(PQKBManifestationID)12243248(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000544287(PQKBWorkID)10535777(PQKB)10509981(MiAaPQ)EBC1080549(Au-PeEL)EBL1080549(CaPaEBR)ebr10632816(CaONFJC)MIL314184(OCoLC)678476371(FINmELB)ELB144530(EXLCZ)99336000000043139920110309d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMiddle-earth and beyond essays on the world of J.R.R. Tolkien /edited by Kathleen Dubs and Janka Kaščáková1st ed.Newcastle upon Tyne Cambridge Scholars20101 online resource (157 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4438-2558-1 Includes bibliographical references.TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; SOURCING TOLKIEN'S CIRCLES OF THE WORLD; STAYING HOME AND TRAVELLING; THE ENIGMATIC MR. BOMBADIL; TOM BOMBADIL - MAN OF MYSTERY; GROTESQUE CHARACTERS IN TOLKIEN'S NOVELS THE HOBBIT AND THE LORD OF THE RINGS; "IT SNOWED FOOD AND RAINED DRINK" IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS; "NO LAUGHING MATTER"; "LIT.", "LANG.", "LING.", AND THE COMPANY THEY KEEP; CONTRIBUTORSOne wonders whether there really is a need for another volume of essays on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Clearly there is. Especially when the volume takes new directions, employs new approaches, focuses on different texts, or reviews and then challenges received wisdom. This volume intends to do all that. The entries on sources and analogues in The Lord of the Rings, a favorite topic, are still able to take new directions. The analyses of Tolkien's literary art, less common in Tolkien critic...Fantasy fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismMedievalismEnglandHistory20th centuryMiddle Earth (Imaginary place)Middle Ages in literatureFantasy fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.MedievalismHistoryMiddle Earth (Imaginary place)Middle Ages in literature.823.912Dubs Kathleen E1645017Kaščáková Janka1645018MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821556203321Middle-earth and beyond4097630UNINA