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Middle-earth minstrel : essays on music in Tolkien / edited by Bradford Lee Eden.

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Middle-earth minstrel : essays on music in Tolkien / edited by Bradford Lee Eden.
Publication
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2010.

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Eden, Bradford Lee
Description
viii, 207 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
"This book explores the multitude of musical-literary allusions and themes that are intertwined throughout the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, including how his scholarly work with medieval poetry affected the creation, development, and characters in his mythology of Middle-earth"--Provided by publisher.
Alternative Title
Music in Tolkien
Subject
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Music
  • Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 > Middle Ages
  • Music in literature
  • Fantasy fiction, English > Medieval influences
  • Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Bradford Lee Eden -- Horns of dawn : the tradition of alliterative verse in Rohan / Jason Fisher -- "Inside a song" : Tolkien's phonaesthetics / John R. Holmes -- Ǽfre me strongode longað : songs of exile in the mortal realms / Peter Wilkin -- J.R.R. Tolkien : a fortunate rhythm / Darielle Richards -- Tolkien's unfinished "Lay of Lúthien" and the Middle English Sir Orfeo / Deanna Delmar Evans -- Strains of elvish song and voices : Victorian medievalism, music, and Tolkien / Bradford Lee Eden -- Dissonance in the divine theme : the issue of free will in Tolkien's Silmarillion / Keith W. Jensen -- "Worthy of a song" : memory, mortality and music / Amy M. Amendt-Radeuge -- "Tolkien is the wind and the way" : the educational value of Tolkien-inspired world music / Amy H. Sturgis -- Liquid Tolkien : music, Tolkien, Middle-earth, and more music / David Bratman -- Performance art in a tunnel : a musical sub-creator in the tradition of Tolkien / Anthony S. Burdge.
ISBN
  • 9780786448142 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0786448148 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010006922
OCLC
  • 496959666
  • SCSB-12469042
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library