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Verlyn Flieger
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A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie
(1997)
Explores the interrelation and evolution of the
themes of time, dream, and 'faërie' throughout Tolkien's major works.
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Tolkien's Legendarium : Essays on The History of Middle-earth
(Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy) --
2002 Mythopoeic Award for Inklings Studies
Essays on the history of
Middle-earth.
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Pig Tale (2002)
A novel of love, sacrifice and redemption with themes
from
Celtic myth. For people of all ages, especially the mythically
inquisitive.
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Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (2002)
The content of Tolkien’s mythology, the
Silmarillion, has been the subject of considerable exploration and analysis
for many years, but the logistics of its development have been mostly ignored
and deserve closer investigation. ¶Nineteenth- and twentieth-century
scholars understood the term mythology as a gathering of song and story that
derived from and described an identifiable world. Tolkien made a continuous
effort over several years to construct a comprehensive mythology, to include
not only the stories themselves but also the storytellers, scribes, and bards
who were the offspring of his thought. ¶In Interrupted Music Flieger
attempts to illuminate the structure of Tolkien’s work, allowing the reader to
appreciate its broad, over-arching design and its careful, painstaking
construction. She endeavors to “follow the music from its beginning as an idea
in Tolkien’s mind through to his final but never-implemented mechanism for
realizing that idea, for bringing the voices of his story to the reading
public.” In addition, Flieger reviews attempts at myth-making in the history
of English literature by Spenser, Milton, and Blake as well as by Joyce and
Yeats. She reflects on the important differences between Tolkien and his
predecessors and even more between Tolkien and his contemporaries. ¶This
in-depth study will fascinate those interested in Tolkien and fantasy
literature.
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Interrupted Music: Tolkien And The Making Of A Mythology
(2005)
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Smith of Wootton Major (2005) by
J.R.R. Tolkien and edited by Verlyn Flieger
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