The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology

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Diagram from Theodore M. Andersson, The Legend of Brynhild, copyright © 1980 by Cornell University Press, used by permission of the publisher, Cornell University Press, and Theodore M. Andersson.

Some of the material in this book first appeared in different form in the following publications: J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, Mary B. Salu and Robert T. Farrell, eds. (Cornell University Press, 1979); Scholarship and Fantasy: The Tolkien Phenomenon, Keith J. Battarbee, ed. (Turku University Press, 1993); J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-earth, George Clark and Dan Timmons, eds. (Greenwood Press, 2000); “Allegory Versus Bounce: Tolkien’s Smith of Wootton Major”, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 12, no. 2 (2001); and “Another Road to Middle-earth: Jackson’s Movie Trilogy”, in Understanding The Lord of the Rings, ed. Neil D. Isaacs and Rose Zimbardo, Houghton Mifflin, 2004.