TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shippey, T.A. 
TI  - The road to middle-earth
SN  - 0261102753 (pbk)
U1  - 823.912 
PY  - 1982///
CY  - London
PB  - Harper Collins Publishers
KW  - Road--Middle-Earth
N1  - 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

ER  -