The Road to Middle-earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien created a new mythology
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Tom Shippey. The Road to Middle-earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien created a new mythology
THE ROAD TO. MIDDLE-EARTH
Contents
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION
CHAPTER 1 ‘LIT. AND LANG.’ Old Antipathies
The Nature of Philology
Lost Romances
‘Asterisk-Reality’
The wilderness of dragons, the shrewedness of apes
CHAPTER 2 PHILOLOGICAL INQUIRIES. Roads and Butterflies
Survivals in the West
Allegories, Potatoes, Fantasy and Glamour
CHAPTER 3 THE BOURGEOIS BURGLAR. The word and the thing: elves and dwarves
Creative anachronisms
Breaking Contact
The Ring as ‘Equalizer’
The bewilderment of Smaug
CHAPTER 4 A CARTOGRAPHIC PLOT. Maps and Names
Maps and Names
Getting started
Stars, shadows, cellar-doors: patterns of language and of history
‘The Council of Elrond’
The horses of the Mark
The edges of the Mark
‘Magyk natureel’
CHAPTER 5 INTERLACEMENTS AND THE RING. A problem in corruption
Views of evil: Boethian and Manichaean
Conceptions of evil: shadows and wraiths
The opposing forces: luck and chance
Apparent paradoxes: happy sadness and hopeless cheer
The ethics of interlace
Just allegory and large symbolism
Eucatastrophe, realism, and romance
CHAPTER 6 ‘WHEN ALL OUR FATHERS WORSHIPPED STOCKS AND STONES’ Stylistic theories: Tolkien and Shakespeare
The poetry of the Shire
The elvish tradition
Middle-earth and Limbo: mythic analogues
Fróda and Frodo: a myth reconstructed
The styles of romance
Some contradictions mediated
CHAPTER 7 VISIONS AND REVISIONS. The Shaping of ‘The Silmarillion’
The Dangers of Going On
Philosophical Inquiries
Pride and Possessiveness: another view
Eärendil: a Lyric Core
Characters and Cobwebs
Etymologies and ambiguities
The Tale of Beren
Túrin Turambar turún’ ambartanen
Some Conclusions
CHAPTER 8 ‘ON THE COLD HILL’S SIDE’ Of Birch Hats and Cold Potions
An End to ‘Glamour’
The Lost Straight Road
CHAPTER 9 ‘THE COURSE OF ACTUAL COMPOSITION’ The bones of the ox
Lost road, waste land
A mythology for England
Creating depth
‘Mere “escapism” in literature’
‘So deeply stirred his generation’
AFTERWORD
APPENDIX A TOLKIEN’S SOURCES: THE TRUE TRADITION
APPENDIX B FOUR ‘ASTERISK’ POEMS
APPENDIX C PETER JACKSON’S FILM VERSIONS1
NOTES
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND ABBREVIATIONS
Books published by Tom Shippey
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Revised and expanded edition
TOM SHIPPEY
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