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Title Understanding The lord of the rings : the best of Tolkien criticism / edited by Rose A. Zimbardo and Neil D. Isaacs.

Imprint Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  823.912 TOLKIEN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  823 UND    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  828.912 TOLKIEN UND    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  823.912 TOLKIEN    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  813 ZIMBARDO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  Z828 TOLKIEN Z    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Faxon Branch - Non Fiction  Z828 TOLKIEN Z    Check Shelf
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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  823.912 UN    Check Shelf
Description 294 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-274) and index.
Contents Introduction : On the pleasures of (reading and writing) Tolkien criticism / Neil D. Isaacs -- The dethronement of power / C.S. Lewis -- The lord of the hobbits : J.R.R. Tolkien / Edmund Fuller -- The quest hero / W.H. Auden -- Power and meaning in The lord of the rings / Patricia Meyer Spacks -- Moral vision in The lord of the rings / Rose A. Zimbardo -- Men, halflings, and hero worship / Marion Zimmer Bradley -- Tolkien and the fairy story / R.J. Reilly -- Folktale, fairy tale, and the creation of a story / J.S. Ryan -- Frodo and Aragorn : the concept of the hero / Verlyn Flieger -- Middle-earth : an imaginary world? / Paul Kocher -- Tolkien : archetype and word / Patrick Grant -- Myth, history, and time in The lord of the rings / Lionel Basney -- The lord of the rings : Tolkien's epic / Jane Chance -- Another road to middle-earth : Jackson's movie trilogy / Tom Shippey.
Summary Publisher's description: When first published, The Lord of the Rings stood far from the mainstream: no one had seen anything like it for decades. Tolkien's almost stridently antimodern tale needed valiant defenders, vocal admirers who understood its sources and relished its monumental scale. While such champions of modernism as Edmund Wilson mocked Tolkien's archaic structure and language, W.H. Auden -- a great modernist poet in his own right -- rose to his defense with a spirited essay on the true nature of the Hero Quest. Edmund Fuller's essay collected here discusses the nature of the fairy tale, returning to the roots of the term to remove the treacle of Disney and restore the value of realistic enchantment. Tolkien's friend C.S. Lewis takes up the question of why, if you have a serious comment to make about real life, you would drape it in a never-never land of your own. He shrewdly argues that it is because real life does have mythic and heroic qualities -- in abundance. This collection also includes, among others, essays by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Verlyn Flieger, Paul Kocher, Jane Chance, and each of the editors, as well as a brand-new essay by Tom Shippey that shows us how to process all this vast learning, adding to it the many delights of the film versions of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, so we can relish his achievement all the more.
Subject Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the rings.
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
Lord of the rings (Tolkien, J.R.R.) (OCoLC)fst01356106
Fantasy fiction, English. (OCoLC)fst00920756
Middle Earth (Imaginary place) (OCoLC)fst01020337
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the rings.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Added Author Zimbardo, Rose A.
Isaacs, Neil D., 1931-
ISBN 061842251X
9780618422517
9780618422531
0618422536
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