A Real Taste for Fairy-stories
Verlyn Flieger
Cormarë Series No. 54
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This volume of essays comprises more than a dozen of essays by one of the leading Tolkien scholars in which she addresses central questions concerning the status, structure, and meaning of Tolkien’s work for a 21st century audience.
Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger is author of A Question of Time. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faërie (1997), Splintered Light. Logos and Language in Tolkien’s World (2002), and Interrupted Music. The Making of Tolkien’s Mythology (2005). She has published three collections of essays on Tolkien and was responsible for the publication of editions of Smith of Wootton Major, Aotrou and Itroun and The Story of Kullervo.
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Acknowledgements
Series Editor’s Preface
Prologue
Prolegomenon
Essay 1: The Arch and the Keystone
Part I – Tales
Essay 2: Tolkien’s Great Tales
Essay 3: A Lost Tale, a Found Influence: Eärendel and Tinúviel
Essay 4: Tolkien’s Lúthien(s)
Essay 5: The Scouring of Frodo
Essay 6: The Dragon and the Railway Station
Part II – Myths
Essay 7: Whose Myth is it?
Essay 8: A Fearful Weapon
Essay 9: ‘The Lost Road’ and‘The Notion Club Papers’:
Myth, History, and Time-travel
Essay 10: Defying and Defining Darkness
Essay 11: Listening to the Music
Part III – Words
Essay 12: Words, Words, Words
Essay 13: Putting Words in Their Mouths
Essay 14: The Fate of Free Will in Tolkien’s World
Essay 15: A Note on a Name
Essay 16: Credit Where it’s Due
Postscript
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography
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Cover illustration: ‘Rivendell Looking West’ by Ted Nasmith
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New publication, A Real Taste for fairy-stories (14th July 2025)
226 pages, Walking Tree Publishers 2025, Cormarë Series No. 54, ISBN: 978-3-905703-54-2.
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