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001 2013497648
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008 141022s2013 nyua b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a9781402784767 (hbk.)
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050 00 $aPR6039.O32$bZ8335 2013
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100 1 $aSnyder, Christopher A.$q(Christopher Allen),$d1966-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe making of Middle-earth :$ba new look inside the world of J.R.R. Tolkien /$cChristopher Snyder.
264 1 $aNew York :$bSterling,$c[2013]
300 $axiii, 338 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 311-327), timeline, appendices, and index.
520 2 $aExamines the real-world influences that shaped J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novels The hobbit and The lord of the rings.
520 2 $aTolkien expert Christopher Snyder presents the most in-depth exploration yet of Tolkien's source materials for Middle-earth --from the languages, poetry, and mythology of medieval Europe and ancient Greece to the halls of Oxford and the battlefields of World War I.
505 0 $aLearning his craft - From Africa to Birmingham - Oxford - The Great War - Tolkien the Scholar - Tolkien the Teacher - The Inklings - Fame and Retirement - Writing Tolkien -- Tolkien's middle ages - Back to the Sources - Ancient Greece and Rome - Celtic Britain and Ireland - The Anglo-Saxons and Old English - The Vikings and Old Norse - Middle English Literature - King Arthur and the Matter of Britain - Victorian Fairy Tales and the Gothic Revival - Finnish and The Kalevala - William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites - Andrew Lang - George MacDonald - The Northern Land -- "There and Back again" - Hobbits and Dwarves - Trolls and Goblins, Gnomes and Elves - Mountains, Rings, and Riddles in the Dark - Beorn - Mirkwood and Lake-town - Smaug - Endings -- Tales of the Third age - The Fellowship of the Ring - The Two Towers - The Return of the King -- The song of Iluvatar - The Silmarillion - The Children of Hurin -- Appendix I : Monsters and Critics -- Appendix II : Media and Middle-Earth -- Appendix III : Tolkieniana -- Appendix IV : The Moral Virtues of Middle Earth -- A Tolkien Timeline.
600 10 $aTolkien, J. R. R.$q(John Ronald Reuel),$d1892-1973$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aTolkien, J. R. R.$q(John Ronald Reuel),$d1892-1973$xSources.
650 0 $aMiddle Earth (Imaginary place)
600 17 $aTolkien, J. R. R.$q(John Ronald Reuel),$d1892-1973.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00030031
650 7 $aMiddle Earth (Imaginary place)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01020337
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 $aSources.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423900