Sub-creating Arda

Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies is a collection of essays edited by Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger. It was published as No. 40 in the Cormarë Series.

Contents
  • Introduction by Dimitra Fimi and Thomas Honegger
  • "Concerning the 'Sub' in 'Subcreation': The Act of Creating Under" by Mark J.P. Wolf
  • "One Pair of Eyes: Focalisation and Worldbuilding" by Allan Turner
  • "Worldbuilding and Mythopoeia in Tolkien and post-Tolkienian Fantasy Literature" by Massimiliano Izzo
  • "Beyond Fantastic Self-indulgence: Aesthetic Limits to World-building" by Péter Kristóf Makai
  • "Worldbuilding Design Patterns in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien" by N. Trevor Brierly
  • "Ilu's Music: The Creation of Tolkien's Creation Myth" by John Garth
  • "On No Magic in Tolkien: Resisting the Representational Criteria of Realism" by Gergely Nagy
  • "Tolkien the Tinkerer: World-building versus Storytelling" by Renée Vink
  • "Composition as Exploration: Fictional Development in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" by Jonathan Nauman
  • "Temporal Topographies: Mapping the Geological and Anthropological Effects of Time in J.R.R. Tolkien's Legendarium" by Anahit Behrooz
  • "Sundering Seas and Watchers in the Water: Water as a Subversive Element in Middle-earth" by Robin Markus Auer
  • "Lyrics on Lost Lands: Constructing Lost Places through Poetry in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings" by Michaela Hausmann
  • "Mountain People in Middle-earth: Ecology and the Primitive" by Hamish Williams
  • "Then Smaug Spoke: On Constructing the Fantastic via Dialogue in Tolkien's Story Cosmos" by Timo Lothmann, Arndt Heilmann, Sven Hintzen
  • "Artefacts and Immersion in the Worldbuilding of Tolkien and the Brontës" by Maureen F. Mann
  • "Sub-creation by any Other Name: The Artist and God in the Early Twentieth Century" by Bradford Lee Eden
  • "A Mythology for Poland: Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher Fantasy Series as a Tolkienian Subcreation" by Kristine Larsen
  • "More than Narrative: The Role of Paratexts in the World-building of Austin Tappan Wright, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin" by Andrew Higgins
  • "The Faërie World of Michael Swanwick" by Tom Shippey
  • "Absence of gods vs. Absence of God: The Spiritual Landscapes of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and George R.R. Martin's Westeros" by Łukasz Neubauer
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