The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien

The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien was published in the U.K. in June 2022 by the Bodleian Library, honoring Christopher Tolkien two years after his death. The book will be published in the United States in September 2022, by University of Chicago Press.
Following a timeline of Christopher's life and his funeral eulogy are nine essays by prominent Tolkien scholars, compiled by Catherine McIlwaine and Richard Ovenden, present head of the Bodleian. Only some essays concern Christopher Tolkien directly; the intent was to feature essays that "Christopher himself would enjoy reading", according to McIlwaine.
The title of the book references The Two Towers, in which Frodo Baggins tells Samwise Gamgee that the great tales of heroism in Middle-earth "never end".The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, Ch. VIII: "The Stairs of Cirith Ungol"
==Essays==
*Priscilla Tolkien, "A Personal Memory"
*Vincent Ferré, "The Son Behind the Father: Christopher Tolkien as a Writer"
*Verlyn Flieger, "Listening to the Music"
*John Garth, "The Chronology of Creation: How J.R.R. Tolkien Misremembered the Beginnings of his Mythology"
*Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, "‘I Wisely Started with a Map’: J.R.R. Tolkien as Cartographer"
*Carl F. Hostetter, "Editing the Tolkienian Manuscript"
*Stuart D. Lee, "A Milestone in BBC History? The 1955-56 Radio Dramatization of The Lord of the Rings"
*Tom Shippey, "King Sheave and The Lost Road"
*Brian Sibley, "Down from the door where it began… Portal images in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"
== External links ==
* University of Chicago Press page
* Barnes & Noble page
* Amazon.com page
==References==
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