The Great Tales Never End
The Great Tales Never End: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien is a book of essays about Christopher Tolkien, edited by Richard Ovenden and Catherine McIlwaine. The essays are all contributed by well-known Tolkien scholars. It was published by the Bodleian Library in June 2022 in UK, and by University of Chicago in September in US.
The book serves as a memorial to Christopher Tolkien, who passed away on 16 January, 2020.
Contents
- 1. Introduction
- — by Catherine McIlwaine
- Timeline
- 2. Eulogy delivered at Christopher Tolkien’s funeral
- — by Maxime H. Pascal (translated from the French by Baillie Tolkien)
- 3. A Personal Memory
- — by Priscilla Tolkien
- 4. The Son Behind the Father: Christopher Tolkien as a Writer
- — by Vincent Ferré
- 5. Listening to the Music
- — by Verlyn Flieger
- 6. The Chronology of Creation: How J.R.R. Tolkien Misremembered the Beginnings of his Mythology
- — by John Garth
- 7. 'I Wisely Started with a Map': J.R.R. Tolkien as Cartographer
- — by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- 8. Editing the Tolkienian Manuscript
- — by Carl F. Hostetter
- 9. A Milestone in BBC History? The 1955-56 Radio Dramatization of The Lord of the Rings
- — by Stuart D. Lee
- 10. 'King Sheave' and 'The Lost Road'
- — by Tom Shippey
- 11. 'Down from the door where it began…': Portal images in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
- — by Brian Sibley
- Bibliography for Christopher Tolkien
- Notes
- About the Contributors
- Further Reading
- Picture Credits
- Index
Referencias
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