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Title:

Tolkien and the invention of myth : a reader / edited by Jane Chance.

Publisher:

University Press of Kentucky,

Copyright Date:

c2004

Description:

xx, 340 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Criticism and interpretation.
Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Mythology.--Mythology.
Fantasy literature, English--History and criticism.
Invention (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Mythology in literature.
Myth in literature.
Tolkien
Medieval studies
Mythologie.
Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Critique et interprétation.
Tolkien, J. R. R.--(John Ronald Reuel),--1892-1973--Et la mythologie.
Littérature fantastique anglaise--Histoire et critique.
Terre du Milieu (Lieu imaginaire)
Mythologie dans la littérature.
Mythe dans la littérature.

Other Authors:

Chance, Jane, 1945-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-319) and index.

Contents:

Tolkien and the rediscovery of myth / Michaela Baltasar -- Light from an invisible lamp : natural religion in the Lord of the Rings / Catherine Madsen -- Creating and re-creating worlds with words : the religion and the magic of language in the Lord of the Rings / Mary E. Zimmer -- Tolkien as philologist / David Lyle Jeffrey -- Saving the myths : the re-creation of mythology in Plato and Tolkien / Gergely Nagy -- Myth, late Roman history, and multiculturalism in Tolkien's Middle-Earth / Sandra Ballif Straubhaar -- From catastrophe to eucatastrophe : J. R. R. Tolkien's transformation of Ovid's Mythic Pyramus and Thisbe into Beren and Lúthien / Jen Stevens -- Providence, fate, and chance : Boethian philosophy in the Lord of the Rings / Kathleen E. Dubs -- Tolkien and the appeal of the pagan : Edda and Kalevala / Tom Shippey -- Norse and Christian gods : the integrative theology of J. R. R. Tolkien / Marjorie J. Burns -- The twilight of the elves : Ragnarök and the end of the Third Age / Andy Dimond -- Gathered round northern fires : the imaginative impact of the Kolbítar / Andrew Lazo -- A mythology for Anglo-Saxon England / Michael D.C. Drout -- Oaths and oathbreaking : analogues of Old English Comitatus in Tolkien's myth / John R. Holmes -- On the borders of old stories : enacting the past in Beowulf and the Lord of the Rings / Alexandra Bolintineanu -- A mythology for Finland : Elias Lönrott and J. R. R. Tolkien as mythmakers / Verlyn Flieger -- Setting the rocket off in story : the Kalevala as the germ of Tolkien's legendarium / Richard C. West -- J. R. R. Tolkien and the Kalevala : some thoughts on the Finnish origins of Tom Bombadil and Treebeard / David Elton Gay.

ISBN:

9780813123011 (acid-free paper)
0813123011 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

2003025135

Locations:

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

OAAX516 -- Maharishi University of Management Library (Fairfield)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)