THE ROAD TO MIDDLE-EARTH - Revised Edition Paperback Book (Tom Shippey - 1st Revised Edition UK Paperback Edition - 2005)
Language: English
Published by HARPER COLLINS, 2005
Series: Book 1 of 1 - How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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- Title
- THE ROAD TO MIDDLE-EARTH - Revised Edition Paperback Book (Tom Shippey - 1st Revised Edition UK Paperback Edition - 2005)
- Author
- TOM SHIPPEY
- Publisher
- HARPER COLLINS
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0261102753
- ISBN 13
- 9780261102750
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Item weight
- 1,050 grams
- Dimensions
- 12.9 centimeters width by 19.8 centimeters height by 3.2 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 1 of 1: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
A detailed and fascinating journey to the roots of The Lord of the Rings, by award-winning Tolkien expert Professor Tom Shippey.
The Road to Middle-Earth is a fascinating and accessible exploration of J.R.R.Tolkien’s creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Tom Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien’s professional background led him to write The Hobbit and how he created a work of timeless charm for millions of readers. He discusses the contribution of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales to Tolkien’s great myth-cycle, showing how Tolkien’s more ‘complex’ works can be read enjoyably and seriously by readers of his earlier books, and goes on to examine the remarkable 12-volume History of Middle-earth by Tolkien’s son and literary heir Christopher Tolkien, which traces the creative and technical processes through which Middle-earth evolved. The core of the book, however, concentrates on The Lord of the Rings as a linguistic and cultural map, as a twisted web of a story, and as a response to the inner meaning of myth and poetry.
By following the routes of Tolkien’s own obsessions – the poetry of languages and myth – The Road to Middle-earth shows how Beowulf, The Lord of the Rings, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, the Elder Edda and many other works form part of a live and continuing tradition of literature. It takes issue with many basic premises of orthodox criticism and offers a new approach to Tolkien, to fantasy, and to the importance of language in literature.
This new edition is revised and expanded, and includes a previously unpublished lengthy analysis of Peter Jackson’s film adaptations and their effect on Tolkien’s work.
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About the Author
Professor Tom Shippey taught at Oxford, overlapping chronologically with Professor Tolkien and teaching the same syllabus, giving him an intimate familiarity with the poems and the languages which formed the main stimulus to Tolkien’s imagination. He subsequently held the same Chair of English Language and Medieval Literature at Leeds University which Tolkien held early in his career, and currently holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University, USA.
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