Tolkien's Shorter Works

ISBN-13: 9783905703115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 364 str.

Margaret Hiley; Frank Weinreich

Opis

Tolkiens Middle-earth and its legendarium have drawn extensive scholarly attention. But there is more to Tolkien than the history and legends of Middle-earth, and there has hitherto been a certain lack of academic criticism focused primarily on his shorter fictional works Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major, Roverandom and his poetry. Although scholarly evaluations of these works exist, they often deal with the shorter texts more as an afterthought, as footnotes to the major texts rather than as demanding attention in their own right. This dearth of studies suggests that it is time for a closer look at Tolkiens Shorter Works. The current volume collects the findings of a joint conference of Walking Tree Publishers who co-organised this event in order to celebrate their tenth anniversary, and the German Tolkien Society at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany in 2007. Various interesting aspects, details and connections are unearthed which are likely to broaden not simply the understanding of Tolkiens Shorter Works, but also of the authors overall fictional work as well as the man and author J.R.R. Tolkien himself.