Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord Of The Rings
by Lin Carter
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- Mass Market Paperback, Near As New.
- ISBN 10
- 0345215508
- ISBN 13
- 9780345215505
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About The Book: Carter's study was intended to serve as an introduction to Tolkien for those unfamiliar with his work. His introduction briefly reviews the publishing phenomenon of The Lord of the Rings and its burgeoning popularity in the wake of the first paperback editions in the 1960s, after which he devotes three chapters to a short biography of the author through the late 1960s, including an account of how The Lord of the Rings was written. Four chapters explaining Tolkien's invented Middle-earth and summarizing the stories of The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings follow, for the benefit of readers who may not have yet actually read the works. Carter next turns to the question of what the works are, a point of some confusion at the time. The then-current vogue for realistic fiction provided critics with few tools for evaluating an out-and-out fantasy on its own terms, and attempts to deconstruct it as a satire or allegory were rife. Carter gently but firmly debunks these efforts, supporting his argument by drawing on Tolkien's own published ruminations on the functions and purposes of fantasy. He then contextualizes Tolkien's works by broadly sketching the history of written fantasy from its earliest appearance in the epic poetry of the ancient world through the heroic poetry of the dark ages and the prose romances of the medieval era, down to the fairy tales, ghost stories and gothic novels of the early modern era and the rediscovery of the genre by writers of the 19th and 20th centuries prior to and contemporary with Tolkien.
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- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7060-10.2722
- Title
- Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord Of The Rings
- Author
- Lin Carter
- Book Condition
- New Mass Market Paperback, Near As New.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed. 6th Prt’g.
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0345215508
- ISBN 13
- 9780345215505
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- February, 1973
- Pages
- 211+
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