There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale : More Essays on Tolkien.

Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Style, Usage, and Abbreviations -- Note to the Reader -- Part One: "A Perilous Land": Defining Faërie -- "There Would Always Be a 'Fairy-tale'": J. R. R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy -- But What Did He Really Mean? -- Re-creating Reality -- War, Death, and Fairy Stories in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien -- Eucatastrophe and the Dark -- Part Two: "Faërie Begins": The Nuts and Bolts of Sub-creation -- Words and World-making: The Particle Physics of Middle-earth -- Myth, History, and Time-travel: The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers -- Politically Incorrect Tolkien -- The Jewels, the Stone, the Ring, and the Making of Meaning -- Making Choices: Moral Ambiguity in Tolkien's Major Fiction -- Part Three: "Arresting Strangeness": Making It Different -- The Forests and the Trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie -- How Trees Behave-Or Do They? -- Myth and Truth in Tolkien's Legendarium -- Fays, Corrigans, Elves, and More: Tolkien's Dark Ladies -- Part Four: Boiling Bones -- Serving Soup -- Tolkien, Kalevala, and Middle-earth -- Tolkien's Celtic Connection -- Tolkien's French Connection -- Drowned Lands -- Voyaging About: Tolkien and Celtic Navigatio -- Permissions and Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

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