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1 online resource (387 pages) |
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Richard E. Blackwelder: Scholar, Collector, Benefactor, and Friend / Charles B. Elston -- The AB Language Lives / Arne Zettersten -- History in Words: Tolkien's Ruling Passion / T.A. Shippey -- Frodo and the Great War / John Garth -- Towards Quite Unforeseen Goals / Paul Edmund Thomas -- "And All the Days of Her Life Are Forgotten": The Lord of the Rings as Mythic Prehistory / John D. Rateliff -- What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?: Planning, Inspiration, and The Lord of the Rings / Christina Scull -- The Artistry of Omissions and Revisions in The Lord of the Rings / David Bratman -- King and Hobbit: The Exalted and Lowly in Tolkien's Created Worlds / Marjorie Burns -- Subversive Fantasist: Tolkien on Class Difference / Jane Chance -- Naysayers in the Works of Tolkien / Sumner Gary Hunnewell -- The Rhetorical Evolution of "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" / Michael D.C. Drout -- Working at the Crossroads: Tolkien, St. Augustine, and the Beowulf-poet / Matthew A. Fisher -- "Elvish as She Is Spoke" / Carl F. Hostetter -- Teaching Tolkien / Mike Foster -- Tolkienian Gothic / Arden R. Smith -- Tolkien and the Idea of the Book / Verlyn Flieger -- The Mainstreaming of Fantasy and the Legacy of The Lord of the Rings / Douglas A. Anderson -- "Her Choice Was Made and Her Doom Appointed": Tragedy and Divine Comedy in the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen / Richard C. West -- Special Collections in the Service of Tolkien Studies / Wayne G. Hammond |
| Summary |
The fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of The Lord of the Rings, the enormously popular and influential masterpiece of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, is celebrated in these twenty papers presented at the Marquette University Tolkien conference of 21-23 October 2004. They are published in honor of the late Dr. Richard E. Blackwelder, who gave his important Tolkien collection to the Marquette University Libraries, long a major center for Tolkien research. Half of the papers in this book focus on The Lord of the Rings, while others investigate the larger body of Tolkien's achievements, as |
| Notes |
Contains the twenty papers presented at the Marquette University Tolkien conference of the same name, 21-23 October 2004 |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-364) and index |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the rings -- Congresses
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses
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Blackwelder, Richard E. -- Appreciation
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Blackwelder, Richard E. fast |
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Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 fast |
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Lord of the rings (Tolkien, J. R. R.) fast |
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Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place) -- Congresses
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Art appreciation
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Fantasy fiction, English
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Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Blackwelder, Richard E.
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Hammond, Wayne G.
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Scull, Christina.
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| LC no. |
2006003227 |
| ISBN |
9781435610620 |
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1435610628 |
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9780874629415 |
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0874629411 |
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9780874620184 |
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087462018X |
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