32. Adult Consolations: Tolkien on Fantasy. 1. Midway in the Journey of Our Life -- 2. On Getting Lost -- 3. "Who Is Tom Bombadil?" -- 4. Uncles -- 5. Lyric and Heroic -- 6. Samwise the Wise -- 7. Tolkien the Terrible -- 8. Gollum, Soul of the Book -- 9. The Fuzzy Distance -- 10. The Balrog: Dread from the Depths -- 11. Lothlorien: The Worst Wound -- pt. 2 THE TWO TOWERS -- 12. A Haze of Gold -- 13. The Love of Trees -- 14. The Art of Writing Terrain -- 15. "The World Is Gnawed by Nameless Things" -- 16. Tolkien the Terrible (2) -- 17. Tolkien's Subtlety -- 18. Frodo's Laughter -- 19. "An Evil Thing in Spider-Form" -- pt. 3 THE RETURN OF THE KING -- 20. The Art of the "Meanwhile" -- 21. "The Insupportable Weight of Middle-earth" -- 22. "A Hutch to Trammel Some Wild Thing In" -- 23. Denethor the Asura -- 24. Athelas: A Cure for Spiritual Sickness -- 25. Why Tolkien Is so Enjoyable to Read Aloud -- 26. Mount Doom: Climax or Anticlimax? -- 27. For Eowyn, a Trammel? -- 28. Ceremonial Heroism -- 29. Multiple Endings -- 30. Frodo's Wound -- 31. Sam's Deep Breath: The Exquisite Ending -- 32. Adult Consolations: Tolkien on Fantasy.
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