Green Suns and Faërie

Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien is a collection of essays by Verlyn Flieger on J.R.R. Tolkien and his works.

Content
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Conventions

PART ONE - Tolkien Sub-creator

  • Fantasy and Reality: J.R.R. Tolkien's World and the Fairy-story Essay
  • The Music and the Task: Fate and Free Will in Middle-earth
  • Tolkien and the Idea of the Book
  • Tolkien on Tolkien: "On Fairy-stories," The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings
  • When Is a Fairy Story a Faerie Story? Smith of Wootton Major
  • The Footsteps of Ælfwine
  • The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow: Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-earth
  • Whose Myth Is It?

PART TWO - Tolkien in Tradition

  • Tolkien's Wild Men from Medieval to Modern
  • Tolkien and the Matter of Britain
  • Frodo and Aragorn: The Concept of the Hero
  • Bilbo's Neck Riddle
  • Allegory Versus Bounce: Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major
  • Flieger
  • Shippey
  • A Mythology for Finland: Tolkien and Lonnrot as Mythmakers
  • Tolkien, Kalevala, and "The Story of Kullervo"
  • Brittany and Wales in Middle-earth
  • The Green Knight, the Green Man, and Treebeard: Scholarship and Invention in Tolkien's Fiction
  • Missing Person

PART THREE - Tolkien and His Century

  • A Cautionary Tale: Tolkien's Mythology for England
  • The Mind, the Tongue, and the Tale
  • A Post-modern Medievalist
  • Taking the Part of Trees: Eco-conflict in Middle-earth
  • Gilson, Smith, and Baggins
  • The Body in Question: The Unhealed Wounds of Frodo Baggins
  • A Distant Mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the Looking-glass
  • Permissions and Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
Referencias

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