J.R.R. Tolkien (Modern Critical Views)

• Editor's note
• Introduction
• — By Harold Bloom
• "Tolkien: The Monsters and the Critters"
• — By Thomas J. Gasque (from Tolkien and the Critics)
• "Cosmic Order"
• — By Paul H. Kocher (from Master of Middle-earth)
• "Tolkien and Frodo Baggins"
• — By Roger Sale (from Modern Heroism: Essays on D.H. Lawrence & J.R.R. Tolkien)
• "The Author (1953-1965)"
• — By Daniel Grotta-Kurska (from J.R.R. Tolkien: Architect of Middle-earth)
• "The Individuated Hobbit"
• — By Timothy R. O'Neill (from The Individuated Hobbit)
• "Tolkien's Prelude"
• — By Anne C. Petty (from One Ring to Bind Them All: Tolkien's Mythology)
• "A Mythology for England"
• — By Paul H. Kocher (from A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion)
• "On the Need for Writing Tolkien Criticism"
• — By Neil D. Isaacs (from Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives)
• "Lit. and Lang."
• — By Tom Shippey (from The Road to Middle-earth)
• "Myth and Story"
• — By Richard L. Purtill (from J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality and Religion)
• Chronology
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Index

A new edition of the book was published in 2008, titled Bloom's Modern Critical Views: J.R.R. Tolkien (New Edition). Its contents differ from the first edition, having a whole new selection of previously published material.

• Editor's note
• Introduction
• — By Harold Bloom
• "Tolkien, Epic Traditions , and Golden Age Myths"
• — By Charles A. Huttar (from Twentieth-Century Fantasists: Essays on Culture, Societyand Believe in Twentieth-Century Mythopoeic Literature)
• "The Hobbit"
• — By David Stevens and Carol D. Stevens (from J.R.R. Tolkien: The Art of the Myth-maker)
• "Bilbo's Adventures in Wilderland"
• — By William H. Green (from The Hobbit: A Journey into Maturity)
• "J.R.R. Tolkien and the True Hero"
• — By George Clark (from J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances)
• "The King under the Mountain: Tolkien's Children Story"
• — By Jane Chance (from Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England)
• "The Quests of Sam and Gollum for the Happy Life"
• — By Jorge J.E. García (from The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy)
• "Tolkien in the History of Ideas"
• — By Brian Rosebury (from Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon)
• "An Unfinished Symphony"
• — By Verlyn Flieger (from Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology)
• "Skin-Changing in More than One Sense: The Complexity of Beorn"
• — By Marjorie Burns (from Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth)
• "The Evidence of Things Not Seen: Critical Mythology and The Lord of the Rings"
• — By John C. Hunter (from Journal of Modern Literature Volume 29, Number 2)
• Chronology
• Contributors
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements
• Index

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