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Source criticism--analysis of a writer's source material--has emerged as one of the most popular approaches in exploring the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Since Tolkien drew from many disparate sources, an understanding of these sources, as well as how and why he incorporated them, can enhance readers' appreciation. This set of new essays by leading Tolkien scholars describes the theory and methodology for proper source criticism and provides practical demonstrations of the approach.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Preface
Jason Fisher
Introduction: Why Source Criticism?
Tom Shippey
Source Criticism: Background and Applications
E. L. Risden
Tolkien and Source Criticism: Remarking and Remaking
Jason Fisher
The Stones and the Book: Tolkien, Mesopotamia, and Biblical Mythopoeia
Nicholas Birns
Sea Birds and Morning Stars: Ceyx, Alcyone, and the Many Metamorphoses of Eärendil and Elwing
Kristine Larsen
"Byzantium, New Rome!" Goths, Langobards, and Byzantium in The Lord of the Rings
Miryam Librán-Moreno
The Rohirrim: "Anglo-Saxons on Horseback"? An Inquiry into Tolkien's Use of Sources
Thomas Honegger
William Caxton's The Golden Legend as a Source for Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Judy Ann Ford
She and Tolkien, Revisited
John D. Rateliff
Reading John Buchan in Search of Tolkien
Mark T. Hooker
Biography as Source: Niggles and Notions
Diana Pavlac Glyer and Josh B. Long
About the Contributors
Index
