Research Catalog

Title

A tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien : 3 January 1892-2 September 1973, Centenary / UNISA Medieval Association, 19 May 1992 ; edited by Rosemary Gray.

Author

UNISA Medieval Association. Conference (1992)

Publication

Pretoria : Unisa Medieval Association, 1992.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Gray, Rosemary
• Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973

Description

x, 112 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Miscellanea congregalia ; 42

Uniform Title

Miscellanea congregalia 42.

Alternative Title

Tribute to John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 3 January 1892-2 September 1973

Subject

• Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses
• Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
• Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel, (1892-1973)
• Tolkien, John R. R
• 1900-1999
• Medievalism > England > History > 20th century > Congresses
• Fantasy literature, English > History and criticism
• Civilization, Medieval, in literature > Congresses
• Middle Earth (Imaginary place) > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreward / Priscilla Tolkien -- Tolkien's achievement: one of a kind or part of a great tradition? / Elwyn Jenkins -- Medieval, Victorian, and Modern: Tolkien, Wagner, and the Ring / Arthur Morgan -- The voyage as ambiguous symbol in Tolkien / Arthur Morgan -- The mirror of Galadriel: some relfections / Lesley Marx -- Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major and folk-fairytales: a comparison / Eberhard Füncke -- Sounding heroic: Tolkien's use of alliterative prose / Elizabeth Burroughs -- Leaf by niggle: so unlike any other story? / Molly Brown -- Tolkien documentary / Peter James-Smith -- Panel discussion / Digby Ricci, David Levey, Derek Gray.

ISBN

0869817809

OCLC

• 31132733
• SCSB-10694922

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library