J.R.R. Tolkien's Double Worlds and Creative Process [electronic resource] : Language and Life /
Zettersten, A.author.
A close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction. In light of his unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating passions that drove that great author as a youth, a soldier, a linguist, and an Oxford Don.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: Foreword -- Our First Meeting -- Language -- Like lightning from a clear sky -- Tolkien's double worlds - Middle-earth -- From Bloemfontein to Birmingham -- From Sarehole to Shire -- An orphan drawn to reading -- Student life in Oxford -- Soldier at the front -- Experience of war in Tolkien's fiction -- Research as motor -- Interlude at Leeds -- Interplay between research and fiction -- A Don on a sidetrack -- The AB language : a unique discovery -- Fantasy for children and adults -- The final years -- Facts and fiction -- On the truth of myths -- The reception of the Lord of the Rings in the World -- New media -- Epilogue.
A close colleague of Tolkein for many years, Zettersten offers here a personally informed analysis of his fiction. In light of his unusual life experience and enthusiasm for the study of languages, Zettersten finds in Tolkein's fiction the same animating passions that drove that great author as a youth, a soldier, a linguist, and an Oxford Don.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
English language.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature.
Fiction.
Children's literature.
English.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literature, general.
Fiction.
Children's Literature.