Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien

Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien presents essays by Verlyn Flieger, written in various years, concerning J.R.R. Tolkien's concept of sub-creation, his "reconfiguration" of the literary tradition of the Middle Ages, and the suitability of his fantasy works among modern literature. It was published by Kent State University Press in 2012, and would be followed by There Would Always Be Another Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien in 2017.
==Note on the title==
Faërie is an archaic English term originally meaning 'fairyland' or 'fantastical'. In circles of fantasy literature and scholarship, it can be an adjective or a proper noun, and be literal or metaphysical.
==Parts==
*Tolkien Sub-creator
**Fantasy and Reality: J.R.R. Tolkien's World and the Fairy-story Essay
**The Music and the Task: Fate and Free Will in Middle-earth
**Tolkien and the Idea of the Book
**Tolkien on Tolkien: "On Fairy-stories," The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings
**When Is a Fairy Story a Faerie Story? Smith of Wootton Major
**The Footsteps of Ælfwine
**The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow: Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-earth
**Whose Myth Is It?
*Tolkien in Tradition
**Tolkien's Wild Men from Medieval to Modern
**Tolkien and the Matter of Britain
**Frodo and Aragorn: The Concept of the Hero
**Bilbo's Neck Riddle
**Allegory Versus Bounce: Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major
**Flieger
**Shippey
**A Mythology for Finland: Tolkien and Lonnrot as Mythmakers
**Tolkien, Kalevala, and "The Story of Kullervo"
**Brittany and Wales in Middle-earth
**The Green Knight, the Green Man, and Treebeard: Scholarship and Invention in Tolkien's Fiction
**Missing Person
*Tolkien and His Century
**A Cautionary Tale: Tolkien's Mythology for England
**The Mind, the Tongue, and the Tale
**A Post-modern Medievalist
**Taking the Part of Trees: Eco-conflict in Middle-earth
**Gilson, Smith, and Baggins
**The Body in Question: The Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins
**A Distant Mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the Looking-glass
==External links==
*Official page
*Bookshop.org
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