Tolkien and the invention of myth
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Jane Chance.
Contributors: Chance, Jane, 1945-
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973 -- Knowledge -- Mythology.; Fantasy literature, English -- History and criticism.; Invention (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.; Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Mythology in literature.; Myth in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-319) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tolkien and the rediscovery of myth / Michaela Baltasar; title: Light from an invisible lamp : natural religion in the Lord of the Rings / Catherine Madsen; title: Creating and re-creating worlds with words : the religion and the magic of language in the Lord of the Rings / Mary E. Zimmer; title: Tolkien as philologist / David Lyle Jeffrey; title: Saving the myths : the re-creation of mythology in Plato and Tolkien / Gergely Nagy; title: Myth, late Roman history, and multiculturalism in Tolkien's Middle-Earth / Sandra Ballif Straubhaar; title: From catastrophe to eucatastrophe : J. R. R. Tolkien's transformation of Ovid's Mythic Pyramus and Thisbe into Beren and Lúthien / Jen Stevens; title: Providence, fate, and chance : Boethian philosophy in the Lord of the Rings / Kathleen E. Dubs; title: Tolkien and the appeal of the pagan : Edda and Kalevala / Tom Shippey; title: Norse and Christian gods : the integrative theology of J. R. R. Tolkien / Marjorie J. Burns; title: The twilight of the elves : Ragnarök and the end of the Third Age / Andy Dimond; title: Gathered round northern fires : the imaginative impact of the Kolbítar / Andrew Lazo; title: A mythology for Anglo-Saxon England / Michael D.C. Drout; title: Oaths and oathbreaking : analogues of Old English Comitatus in Tolkien's myth / John R. Holmes; title: On the borders of old stories : enacting the past in Beowulf and the Lord of the Rings / Alexandra Bolintineanu; title: A mythology for Finland : Elias Lönrott and J. R. R. Tolkien as mythmakers / Verlyn Flieger; title: Setting the rocket off in story : the Kalevala as the germ of Tolkien's legendarium / Richard C. West; title: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Kalevala : some thoughts on the Finnish origins of Tom Bombadil and Treebeard / David Elton Gay.