Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology
2005 book by Verlyn Flieger
Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology is a scholarly book on J.R.R. Tolkien's works, written by Verlyn Flieger.
Contents
- Introduction
;Part 1. "To England"
- 1. The Motives
- "England still waits"
- "A great instrument in God's hands"
- "Something that belongs to the English"
- "Quickened to full life by war"
- "The origin of language and the mind"
- 2. The Models
- The Personal Model: Tolkien and Lönnrot
- The Literary Model: Tolkien and Arthur
- "'But,' said Sam"
- 3. Points of View: Whose Myth Is It?
- 4. The Tradition
- Adventures of a Text
- Oral Tradition in Middle-earth
- "A great big book with red and black letters"
- "The remains of a book"
- "One must stop somewhere"
- So What?
; Part 2. The Artificer and the Foreconceit
- 5. The Artifice
- Eriol the Mariner
- "I should try 'time-travel'"
- The Atlantis Story and the Eriol-Saga
- "Where it lieth still to read for such as may"
- "Ælfwine has one"
; Part 3. The Beauty Some Call Celtic
- 6. The Otherworld
- The Celtic Connection
- Drowned Lands
- Voyaging About
- 7. An Unfinished Symphony
- "The Lord of the Rings before all else"
- "A sad tale's best for winter"
- Afterword
Referencias
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