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Title J. R. R. Tolkien, scholar and storyteller : essays in memoriam / edited by Mary Salu and Robert T. Farrell
Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1979

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Description 325 pages : portrait ; 24 cm
Contents PART ONE -- Professor J.R.R. Tolkien / The Times -- Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford / J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Man and the Scholar / S.T.R.O. d'Ardenne -- PART TWO -- Beowulf Lines 3074- 3075 / A.J. Bliss -- Lazamon's English Sources / P.J. Frankis -- God, Death, and Loyalty in The Battle of Maldon / Fred C. Robinson -- Geoweorpa: "Once Held in High Esteem" / E.G. Stanley -- Narrative Insight in Laxdaela Saga / Ursula Dronke -- Nosce te ipsum: Some Medieval Interpretations / J.A.W. Bennett -- Chaucer's Man of Law and His Tale: The Eccentric Design / Robert T. Farrell -- Chaucer and "Pite" / Douglas Gray -- Make Believe: Chaucer's Rationale of Storytelling in The House of Fame / Geoffrey T. Shepherd -- Moral Chaucer and Kindly Gower / Rosemary Woolf -- PART THREE -- The Lord of the Rings as Romance / Derek S. Brewer -- The Gospel of Middle Earth According to J.R.R. Tolkien / William Dowie -- Creation from Philology in The Lord of the Rings / T.A. Shippey -- Handlist of the Published Writings of J.R.R. Tolkien / Humphrey Carpenter
Summary Friends, colleagues, and students comment on the English author's life and career, examine his major works, and present essays on Old Norse, Old English, and Middle English--Tolkien's major interests
Analysis English literature to 1400
English literature, to 1400 - Critical studies
Fiction in English Tolkien, J R R
Fiction in English Tolkien, J R R. Lord of the rings - Critical studies
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 317-322
Notes Also issued online
Subject Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.
SUBJECT Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the Rings
Subject Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
English literature -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism.
Fantasy literature, English -- History and criticism.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Author Farrell, R. T. (Robert T.)
Salu, Mary.
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
LC no. 78058032
ISBN 080141038X
9780801478871 (paperback)