Splintered Light

1983 book by Verlyn Flieger

Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World is a scholarly book on J.R.R. Tolkien's works, written by Verlyn Flieger, first published in 1983.

A second edition was published in 2002 after the appearance of The History of Middle-earth series, which gave much light on the matter.

Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Introduction
  1. A Man of Antithesis
  2. Dyscatastrophe
  3. Eucatastrophe
  4. Poetic Diction and Splintered Light
  5. Fantasy and Phenomena
  6. Splintered Light and Splintered Being
  7. Theme and Variations
  8. A Disease of Mythology
  9. Perception = Name = Identity
  10. Ourselves as Other See Us
  11. amazing wine and cellar doors
  12. Light and Heat
  13. Making versus Hoarding
  14. Light Out of Darkness
  15. Beyond the Music
  16. Light for Light
  17. Beren and Thingol
  18. The Smallest Fragment
  19. Filled with Clear Light
  20. One Good Custom
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works consulted
Publication history and gallery
Splintered Light (First edition).jpg
2002 second edition
2002 second edition
  • Kent State University Press, hardcover (1983), pp. 144. ISBN 0802819559
  • Kent State University Press, paperback (2002), pp. 208. ISBN 0873387449
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