Tolkien’s View

• Preface
• Introduction and Background
• List of Abbreviations and References

• Part A. Early Biographic Pieces and Emerging Tastes
• — Those Birmingham Quietists: J.R.R. Tolkien and J.H. Shorthouse (1834–1903)
• — The Oxford Undergraduate Studies in Early English and Related Languages of J.R.R. Tolkien (1913–1915)
• — An Important Influence: His Professor’s Wife, Mrs Elizabeth Mary (Lea) Wright
• — Trolls and Other Themes – William Craigie’s Significant Folkloric Influence on the Style of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit
• — Homo Ludens — Amusement, Play and Seeking in Tolkien’s earliest Romantic Thought
• — Edith, St. Edith of Wilton and the other English Western Saints

• Part B. The Young Professor and his Early Publishing
• — Tolkien and George Gordon: or, A Close Colleague and His notion of ‘Myth-maker’ and of Historiographic Jeux d’Esprit
• — J.R.R. Tolkien: Lexicography and other Early Linguistic Preferences
• — The Work and Preferences of the Professor of Old Norse at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1945
• — The Poem ‘Mythopoeia’ as an Early Statement of Tolkien’s Artistic and Religious Position
• — Tolkien’s Concept of Philology as Mythology
• — By ‘Significant’ Compounding “We Pass Insensibly into the World of the Epic”
• — Barrow-wights, Hog-boys and the evocation of The Battle of the Goths and Huns and of St. Guthlac
• — Dynamic Metahistory and the Model of Christopher Dawson
• — Folktale, Fairy Tale, and the Creation of a Story
• — The Wild Hunt, Sir Orfeo and J.R.R. Tolkien
• — Mid-Century Perceptions of the Ancient Celtic Peoples of ‘England’
• — Germanic Mythology Applied – the Extension of the Literary Folk Memory
• — Perilous Roads to the East, from Weathertop and through the Borgo Pass
• — Before Puck – the Púkel-men and the puca

• Appendix. Othin in England – Evidence from the Poetry for a Cult of Woden in *Anglo-Saxon England
• Bibliography
• Index

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