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Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings sources of inspiration / edited by Stratford Caldecott & Thomas Honegger.

Title
Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings sources of inspiration / edited by Stratford Caldecott & Thomas Honegger.
Publication
Zurich ; Jena [Germany ]: Walking Tree Publisher, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Honegger, Thomas
  • Caldecott, Stratford
Description
237 p. : ill., ports.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Cormarë Series ; no. 18
Uniform Title
Cormarë Series ; no. 18.
Alternative Title
  • Lord of the Rings sources of inspiration
  • Lord of the Rings: sources of inspiration
Subject
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Language
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Philosophy
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Mythology
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Religion
  • 1900-1999
  • Fantasy fiction, English > History and criticism
  • Religious fiction, English
  • Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
  • Mythology in literature
  • Religion in literature
  • Comparative literature
  • Religion and literature > England > History > 20th century
  • New Age movement > Christianity
Genre/Form
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  • History
  • Aufsatzsammlung.
  • Konferenzschrift – 2006 – Oxford.
  • Kongress.
  • Oxford (2006)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Foreword / Frances Cairncross -- Introduction: sources of inspiration / Stratford Caldecott -- Part one: biographical -- Tolkien, Exeter College and the Great War / John Garth -- The wold as leaf: perspectives on Tolkien as lexicographer and philologist / Peter Gilliver, Edmund Weiner, and Jeremy Marshall -- Gilson, Smith, and Baggins / Verlyn Flieger -- Part two: mythos and modernity -- Enchantment in Tolkien and Middle-Earth / Patrick Curry -- From Vico to Tolkien: the affirmations of myth against the tyranny of reason / Marek Oziewicz -- From or Zarathustra: beyond nihilism in Tolkien and Nietzsche / Peter M. Candler -- Part three: mythos and logos -- Morals makyth man--and hobbit / Leon Pereira -- Tolkien, Chesterton, and Thomism / Alison Milbank -- The influence of holiness: the healing power of Tolkien's narrative / Guglielmo Spirito -- Tolkien's project / Stratford Caldecott -- Conclusion: a look into Galadriel's mirror / Thomas Honegger.
ISBN
  • 9783905703122 (softcover : alk. paper)
  • 3905703122 (softcover : alk. paper)
OCLC
  • 235597536
  • SCSB-11344632
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library