Tolkien's Shorter Works

Tolkien's Shorter Works
Author	Margaret Hiley and Frank Weinreich (editors)
Publisher	Walking Tree Publishers
Released	2008
Format	Paperback
Pages	352
ISBN	978-3-905703-11-5

Tolkien's Shorter Works is the seventeenth book of Walking Tree's Cormarë Series. It is a collection of several essays.

Contents

• Margaret Hiley and Frank Weinreich: "Introduction"
• Allan Turner: "'Tom Bombadil': Poetry and Accretion"
• Guglielmo Spirito: "Speaking With Animals: A Desire that Lies Near the Heart of Faërie"
• Marek Oziewicz: "Setting Things Right in Farmer Giles of Ham and the Lord of the Rings: Tolkien's Conception of Justice"
• Vincent Ferré: "The Rout of the King: Tolkien's Readings on Arthurian Kingship – Farmer Giles of Ham and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth"
• Friedhelm Schneidewind: "Farmer Giles of Ham: the Prototype of a Humorous Dragon Story"
• Patrick Brückner: "'... Until the Dragon Comes': Tolkien’s Dragon-Motif as Poetological Concept"
• Thomas Fornet-Ponse: "Theology and Fairy-Stories: A Theological Reading of Tolkien's Shorter Works?"
• Bertrand Alliot: "The 'Meaning' of Leaf by Niggle"
• Heidi Steimel: "The Autobiographical Tolkien"
• Fabian Geier: "Leaf by Tolkien? Allegory and Biography in Tolkien's Literary Theory and Practice"
• Martin Simonson: "Redefining the Romantic Hero: a Reading of Smith of Wootton Major in the Light of Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg"
• Maria Raffaella Benvenuto: "Smith of Wootton Major, 'The Sea-Bell' and Lothlórien: Tolkien and the Perils of Faërie"
• Anna E. Slack: "A Star Above the Mast: Tolkien, Faërie and the Great Escape"
• Margaret Hiley: "Journeys in the Dark"
• Martin Sternberg: "Smith of Wootton Major Considered as a Religious Text"
• Frank Weinreich: "Metaphysics of Myth: The Platonic Ontology of 'Mythopoeia'"

External links

• Official product page