Shippey, T.A.  <br/><br/>
The road to middle-earth 
/T.A. Shippey 
 - London:  Harper Collins Publishers,  1982 
 - 337 p. 
<br/><br/>Contents<br/><br/>Acknowledgements and abbreviations           ix<br/>Preface to the second edition                xv<br/><br/>1  'lit. And lang.'                          1<br/>2  philological inquiries                    26<br/>3  the bourgeois burglar                     51<br/>4  a cartographic plot                       87<br/>5  interlacements and the ring               123<br/>6  'when all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones' 159<br/>7  visions and revisions                     201<br/>8  'on the cold hill's side'                 241<br/>9  'the course of actual composition'        255<br/>   afterword                                 291<br/><br/>Appendix a. Tolkien's sources: the true tradition 296<br/>Appendix b. Four 'asterisk' poems            303<br/>Notes                                        310<br/>Index                                        324<br/> 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0261102753 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Road--Middle-Earth
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823.912  / Sh647