The road to middle-earth
/T.A. Shippey
- London: Harper Collins Publishers, 1982
- 337 p.
Contents
Acknowledgements and abbreviations ix Preface to the second edition xv
1 'lit. And lang.' 1 2 philological inquiries 26 3 the bourgeois burglar 51 4 a cartographic plot 87 5 interlacements and the ring 123 6 'when all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones' 159 7 visions and revisions 201 8 'on the cold hill's side' 241 9 'the course of actual composition' 255 afterword 291
Appendix a. Tolkien's sources: the true tradition 296 Appendix b. Four 'asterisk' poems 303 Notes 310 Index 324