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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