Tolkien's World
by Randel Helms
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Discusses Tolkien's minor prose, The Hobbit, The lord of the rings trilogy, and The adventures of Tom Bombadil.Tags
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Literature has its critics, and they are necessary, I suppose (oh, just a minute DF, you are writing a book review here!), Randel Helms has penned a good biography of JRR Tolkien, and an informed critique of LOTR and the Hobbit.
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- Canonical title
- Tolkien's World
- Original publication date
- 1974
- People/Characters
- M. H. Abrams; Hazard Adams; Joseph Addison; Alf Prentice; Amadis; Aragorn II (as Strider) (show all 120); Matthew Arnold; Bilbo Baggins; Frodo Baggins; Balrog; Bard the Bowman; Beorn; Beowulf; R. P. Blackmur; William Blake; Harold Bloom; Tom Bombadil; Boromir; Joseph Bosworth; Barliman Butterbur; Joseph Campbell; Bill Cater; T. K. Cheynes; Winston Churchill (Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer); Oswald Cockayne; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Albert S. Cook; S. Foster Damon; Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321; Christopher Dawson; Déagol; Denethor II; Dori; Michael Drayton; John Dryden; Eärendil; Mircea Eliade; George Eliot; Elrond Half-elven; Thranduil; William Empson; The Ents; Éomer; Éowyn; Eros; Faramir; Farmer Maggot; Bill Ferny; James George Frazer; Sigmund Freud; Northrop Frye; Samwise Gamgee; Gandalf; Gimli; Gildor; Glóin; Glorfindel; Goldberry; Israel Gollancz; Gollum; Golux; The Great Goblin; Christian W.M. Grein; Grendel; Grishnákh; James O. Halliwell; The Haradrim; Heraclitus; Hurons; Richard Hurd; Stanley Edgar Hyman; Prince Imrahil; Arngrim Jonas; Carl Jung; Charles W. Kennedy; W. P. Ker; Paul H. Kocher; Cristoforo Landino; Andrew Lang; D. H. Lawrence; Legolas; C. S. Lewis; Karl Marx; Master Cook; Meriadoc Brandybuck (as Meriadoc, Merry, one of the Nine Walkers); John Milton; Max Müller; The Nazgûl (Black Riders); Nearchus; Necromancer; Erich Neumann; Niggle; Odysseus; Old Man Willow; The One; Iona Opie; Peter Opie; Parish [in Leaf by Niggle]; Pegasus; Peregrin Took; Saruman; Satan; Sauron; William Shakespeare; Shelob; Sigurd; William Skene; Smaug; Sméagol; Snorri Sturluson; Thanatos; Théoden; Thorin Oakenshield; James Thurber; Took; Treebeard; Richard West; Charles Williams; Gríma Wormtongue; William Butler Yeats
- Important places
- Bag End, Hobbiton, The Shire, Eriador, Middle-earth; Barad-dûr, Mordor, Middle-earth; Amon Hen, Nen Hithoel, Anduin, Rhovanion, Middle-earth; Anduin, Rhovanion, Middle-earth; The Barrow Downs, Eriador, Middle-earth; Bree, Eriador, Middle-earth (show all 58); Breredon, Buckland, The Shire, Eriador, Middle-earth; Buckland, The Shire, Eriador, Middle-earth; Bywater, West Farthing, The Shire, Eriador, Middle-earth; Cirith Ungol, Ephel Dúath, Middle-earth; Dead Marshes, Dagorlad, Rhovanion, Middle-earth; Deephallow, Eastfarthing, Rhovanion, Middle-earth; Delectable Mountains; Denmark; Dingle, The Old Forest, Eriador, Middle-earth; Dol Amroth, Belfalas, Gondor, Middle-earth; Elvenhome, Beleriand, Middle-earth; Emyn Muil, Rhovanion, Middle-earth; Ford of Bruinen, Eriador, Middle-earth; Gondor, Middle-earth; Gorgoroth, Mordor, Middle-earth; Hades; Helm's Deep, Rohan, Middle-earth; Hobbiton, The Shire, Eriador, Middle-earth; Isengard, Nan Curunír, Misty Mountains, Middle-earth; Isenmouthe, Mordor, Middle-earth; Ithilien, Gondor, Middle-earth; Esgaroth, Long Lake, Rhovanion, Middle-earth; Lebennin, Gondor, Middle-earth; Meduseld, Edoras, Rohan, Middle-earth; Middle-earth; Mirkwood, Rhovanion, Middle-earth; Misty Mountains, Middle-earth; Morannon, Udûn, Mordor, Middle-earth; Mordor, Middle-earth; Imlad Morgul, Ephel Dúath, Middle-earth; Moria, Misty Mountains, Middle-earth; Crack of Doom, Sammath Naur, Orodruin, Mordor, Middle-earth; Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK; The Old Forest, Eriador, Middle-earth; Orodruin, Gorgoroth, Mordor, Middle-earth; University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK; Parth Galen, Rhovanion, Middle-earth; Paths of the Dead, White Mountains, Middle-earth; Peabody Museum, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA; Pelennor Fields, Gondor, Middle-earth; Perilous Realm; The Prancing Pony, Bree, Eriador, Middle-earth; Rivendell, Misty Mountains, Middle-earth; Rohan, Middle-earth; Sammath Naur, Orodruin, Mordor, Middle-earth; The Sea of Windless Storm; The Shire, Eriador, Middle-earth; Undying Lands, Middle-earth; University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK; Weathertop, Weather Hills, Eriador, Middle-earth; Withywindle, The Old Forest, Eriador, Middle-earth; Wootton Major
- Important events
- Battle of Five Armies; Industrial Revolution; World War II (1939 | 1945); Battle of Britain (1940)
- Dedication
- To Pennie and Kate,
for their love and presence - First words
- This book is for those who have come to love Tolkien's world and want to know more about it and how it came into being.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)His name will stand with the great ones.
- Original language*
- English
- Disambiguation notice
- This is a different work from "Tolkien's World: Paintings of Middle-earth", which is a collection of artworks inspired by Tolkien's writings. Please do not combine the two.
*Some information comes from Common Knowledge in other languages. Click "Edit" for more information.
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- Genres
- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fantasy, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 828.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1900-
- LCC
- PR6039 .O32 .Z66 — Language and Literature English English Literature 1900-1960
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- Languages
- English, Swedish
- Media
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- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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