Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Subtitle: sources of inspiration
By: edited by Stratford Caldecott & Thomas Honegger
Series: Cormarë Series -- 18; Cormarë series -- 18.
Publisher: Walking Tree Publisher; Walking Tree Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Zurich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9783905703122
Subjects: English Religious fiction; English Fantasy fiction; New Age movement; Philosophy; Knowledge; Language; Religion in literature; Criticism and interpretation; Relations; Christianity; Religion; Mythology in literature; Mythology; History; Middle Earth (Imaginary place); History and criticism; Religion and literature; Comparative literature
Other titles: Lord of the Rings: sources of inspiration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Frances Cairncross; title: Introduction: sources of inspiration / Stratford Caldecott; title: Part one: biographical; title: Tolkien, Exeter College and the Great War / John Garth; title: The wold as leaf: perspectives on Tolkien as lexicographer and philologist / Peter Gilliver, Edmund Weiner, and Jeremy Marshall; title: Gilson, Smith, and Baggins / Verlyn Flieger; title: Part two: mythos and modernity; title: Enchantment in Tolkien and Middle-Earth / Patrick Curry; title: From Vico to Tolkien: the affirmations of myth against the tyranny of reason / Marek Oziewicz; title: From or Zarathustra: beyond nihilism in Tolkien and Nietzsche / Peter M. Candler; title: Part three: mythos and logos; title: Morals makyth man; title: and hobbit / Leon Pereira; title: Tolkien, Chesterton, and Thomism / Alison Milbank; title: The influence of holiness: the healing power of Tolkien's narrative / Guglielmo Spirito; title: Tolkien's project / Stratford Caldecott; title: Conclusion: a look into Galadriel's mirror / Thomas Honegger.