Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Chance, Jane, 1945-

Description

xx, 340 p.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
• Myth in literature
• Tolkien, J. R. R (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 > Knowledge > Mythology
• Mythology in literature
• Fantasy literature, English > History and criticism
• Tolkien, J. R. R (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 > Criticism and interpretation

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

Call Number

JFE 04-8507

ISBN

0813123011 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2003025135

OCLC

54938267

Title

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

Imprint

Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, c2004.

Bibliography

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

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Added Author

Chance, Jane, 1945-

Research Call Number

JFE 04-8507