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Title
Tolkien and the West
Type
NonMusicAudio
Monograph
Language
English
Classification
LCC: RZC 3126
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Summary
Professor Michael D.C. Drout takes listeners on a literary journey, exploring Tolkien's most celebrated writings, while explaining the techniques and themes, to show how Tolkien crafted literary worlds that the reader cares desperately about and wishes to save.
Table Of Contents
Introduction : Tolkien and the West
The development of technique : The hobbit
A Western world worth saving : The fellowship of the ring
Ruins and the ruined : The two towers
Leavening joy with sadness : The return of the king
The beauty of sorrow : The Silmarillion
Real scholarship about imaginary things : the appendices and unfinished tales
Further west than West : beyond the books.
Authorized Access Point
Drout, Michael D. C., 1968- Tolkien and the West