CONTENTS
COVER
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT
DEDICATION
PREFACE
FOREWORD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
1 A Question of Mythology
2 The Myth as Literature
3 The Music of Ilúvatar: Tolkien and the Major Mythic Themes
4 Wheels within Wheels: The Submyth and Reality
5 The Eternal Conflict: Good and Evil in Middle-earth
6 The Tragic Hero
7 The Quest Hero
8 The Importance of Being Eärendil
9 Tree and Leaf: The Idiom of Nature
10 A Fanfare for the Common Hobbit
NOTES
INDEX
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