Synopsis
A collection of twenty-two classic fantasy tales notes their connection to Tolkien's early works and includes such pieces as George Macdonald's "The Golden Key," Andrew Lang's "The Story of Sigurd," and E. A. Wyke-Smith's "The Marvelous Land of Snergs." Reprint.
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Douglas A. Anderson, a leading American Tolkien scholar and editor of The Annotated Hobbit, is acknowledged as the worldwide expert on the textual history of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. A bookseller in Ithaca, New York, and northwest Indiana, he now lives in southwestern Michigan.
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