Tolkien and the Great War The Threshold of Middle-Earth

Name: Tolkien and the Great War The Threshold of Middle-Earth
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ISBN: 9780618331291

ISBN-10: 0618331298

ISBN-13: 9780618331291

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Garth

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"Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written." -- A.N. Wilson "A highly intelligent book ... Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer." -- Max Hastings "It is a strange story that Garth tells, but he tells it clearly and compellingly." -- Tom Shippey "Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation." -- Charles Matthews, San Jose Mercury News "Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights." - Library Journal "A labor of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman's nose for a good story with a scholar's scrupulous attention to detail... Brilliantly argued." -- Daily Mail "Insight into how a writer turned…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 12/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Maps


Preface



The immortal four


Prologue



Before



A young man with too much imagination



The Council of London



The shores of Faerie



Benighted wanderers



Too long in slumber



Tears unnumbered



Larkspur and Canterbury-bells



A bitter winnowing



'Something has gone crack'



In a hole in the ground



The Lonely Isle



Castles in the air



Tol Withernon and Fladweth Amrod


Epilogue: 'A new light'


Postscript: 'One who dreams alone'


Notes


Bibliography


Index