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
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