The Making of Middle Earth: A New Look Inside the World of J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Snyder, c. 2013
Grapevine Library
DDS: 823 SNY
Preface
For a long time, only one significant biography of JRR Tolkien, the one by Humphrey Carpenter in 1977.
philology: now called historical linguistics
modern literary genre of fantasy: virtually invented by Tolkien
most successful film franchises:
Tolkien
Harry Potter
James Bond
Star Wars
Chapter 1: Learning His Craft
From Africa to Birmingham
b. January 3, 1892
left Africa at age 3, so not much influence on his writing
left before the outbreak of the Boer war in 1899
exceptions: bitten by a spider while in Africa; led to arachnophobia, and ultimately this fear embodied by his menacing Middle-earth spiders
1900: a place at King Edward's School, Birmingham, which his father had attended
Oxford
The Great War
Tolkien The Scholar
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics"
"On Fairy-Stories"
Tolkien the Teacher
The Inklings
Fame and Retirement
Writing Tolkien
Chapter 2: Tolkien's Middle Ages
Back to the Sources
Ancient Greece and Rome
Celtic Britain and Ireland
The Anglo-Saxons and Old English
The Vikings and Old Norse
Middle English Literature
King Arthur and the Matter of Britain
Victorian Fairy Tales and the Gothic Revival
Finnish and the Kalevala
William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites
Andrew Lang
George MacDonald
The Northern Land
Chapter 3: "There and Back Again"
Hobbits and Dwarves
Trolls and Goblins, Gnomes and Elves
Mountains, Rings, and Riddles in the Dark
Beorn
Mirkwood and Lake-Twon
Smaug
Endings
Chapter 4: Tales of the Third Age
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Chapter 5: The Son of Iluvatar
The Silmarillion
The Children of Nurin
Appendices
Appendix I: Monsters and Critics
Appendix II: Media and Middle Earth
Appendix III: Tolkieniana
Appendix IV: The Moral Virtues of Middle Earth
A Tolkien Timeline
Notes
Bibliography and Tolkien Resources
Index
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