This ninth volume in the history of Middle-earth brings to a conclusion the four books dealing The Lord of the Rings. Includes a never before published alternate ending to the masterpiece, Tolkien's long-lost time travel story, a description of the fall of Numenor, and the debut…
by J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, Oxford, Reynolds, Patricia Ann, American Tolkien Society, J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, Oxford), Mythopoeic Conference, Oxford)
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by J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, Keble College, Oxford), Tolkien Society (England), Mythopoeic Society (U.S.), Mythopoeic Conference, Keble College, Oxford), Oxonmoot, Keble College, Oxford)
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by Falconer, Daniel, Lee, Alan, Vincent, Ra, Weta Workshop
Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic masterwork is the first to explore its "mythology of power"--That is, how power, politics, and language interact. Chance looks beyond the fantastic, self-contained world of Middle-earth to the twentieth-century parallels prese…
"An epic in league with those of Spenser and Malory, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, begun during Hitler's rise to power, celebrates the insignificant individual as hero in the modern world. Jane Chance's critical appraisal of Tolkien's heroic masterwork is the f…
Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faërie, a world they both create and inhabit, and with the elements that mak…
