Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien

✍ Scribed by Tom Shippey

• Publisher: Walking Tree Publishers
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 431
• Series: Cormare Series, Volume 11
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Professor Tom Shippey is best known for his books 'The Road to Middle-earth' and 'J.R.R. Tolkien. Author of the Century'. Yet they are not the only contributions of his to Tolkien studies. Over the years, he has written and lectured widely on Tolkien-related topics. Unfortunately, many of his essays, though still topical, are no longer available. The current volume unites for the first time a selection of his older essays together with some new, as yet unpublished articles.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page......Page 1
Copyright......Page 2
Table of Contents......Page 3
Series Editor's Preface......Page 5
Introduction......Page 7
The Roots: Tolkien and His Predecessors......Page 11
01 Tolkien and the Beowulf-Poet......Page 13
02 Tolkien and the Appeal of the Pagan: Edda and Kalevala......Page 31
03 Tolkien and the West Midlands: The Roots of Romance......Page 51
04 Tolkien and the Gawain-Poet......Page 73
05 Grimm, Grundtvig, Tolkien: Nationalisms and the Invention of Mythologies......Page 91
06 The Problem of the Rings: Tolkien and Wagner......Page 109
07 Goths and Huns: The Rediscovery of the Northern Cultures in the Nineteenth Century......Page 127
Heartwood: Tolkien and Scholarship......Page 149
08 Fighting the Long Defeat: Philology in Tolkien's Life and Fiction......Page 151
09 History in Words: Tolkien's Ruling Passion......Page 169
10 A Look at Exodus and Finn and Hengest......Page 187
11 Tolkien and Iceland: The Philology of Envy......Page 199
12 Tolkien's Academic Reputation Now......Page 215
The Trunk: The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion......Page 225
13 Light-Elves, Dark-Elves and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem......Page 227
14 Indexing and Poetry in The Lord of the Rings......Page 247
15 Orcs, Wraiths, Wights: Tolkien's Images of Evil......Page 255
16 Heroes and Heroism: Tolkien's Problems, Tolkien's Solutions......Page 279
17 Noblesse Oblige: Images of Class in Tolkien......Page 297
18 'A Fund of Wise Sayings': Proverbiality in Tolkien......Page 315
Twigs and Branches: Minor Works by Tolkien......Page 333
19 Tolkien and 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth'......Page 335
20 The Versions of 'The Hoard'......Page 353
21 Allegory versus Bounce: (Half of) An exchange on Smith of Wootton Major......Page 363
22 Blunt Belligerence: Tolkien's Mr. Bliss......Page 375
23 Another Road to Middle-earth: Jackson's Movie Trilogy......Page 377
Abbreviations & References......Page 399
Index......Page 415
Walking Tree Publishers......Page 431