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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
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