Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-202) and index.
Contents:
Late Life Loss of Transitionality. My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me -- Bilbo Baggins, the Master of Laketown, and the Fate of Enchantment -- In Deep with The Hobbit -- Mother Music -- Man-Maiden and the Spider with Horns -- Seeing the Self in the Mirror with Galadriel -- From the Ineluctable Wave to the Realization of Imagined Wonder -- Something Has Gone Crack -- One Ring and Tom Bombadil -- Late Life Loss of Transitionality.
Summary:
Focusing on the themes of enchantment and loss in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, this unique study incorporates elements of developmental psychology to explore both Tolkien's life and art, deepening our understanding of the iterrelationship between his biography and writing-- Back cover.
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