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| |title=Myth, Magic and Meaning in Tolkien's World
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| |author=[[Randel Helms]]
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| |publisher=Granada
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| |date=[[1974]]
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| |format=Paperback
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| |pages=142
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| '''Myth, Magic and Meaning in Tolkien's World''', often (even on the book itself) just called '''Tolkien's World''', is a [[1974]] book by [[Randel Helms]].
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| ==Back cover==
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| [[Tolkien]]'s magical world of [[Middle-earth]] - a land inhabited by [[pipe-weed|tobacco]]-smoking, ale-brewing, [[Hobbits|Halfling]] superheroes, eon-old [[Elves|Elven]] kings, chanting time-travellers, messianic [[Istari|wizards]] and satanic [[Sauron|war-lords]] - remains unparalleled in its scope and vision and unsurpassed in its appeal and fascination for countless millions of people of all ages the world over.
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| Now, in this long-awaited study, Professor Helms shows how the master story-teller succeeded in combining a scholarly knowledge of traditional mythological literature with an imaginative genius to create fantasy epics of universal significance.
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| ==Table of Contents==
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| * Tolkien's World: An Introduction
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| # "I Desired Dragons": The development of a theory of fantasy
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| # Tolkien's Leaf: ''The Hobit'' and the discovery of a world
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| # The Hobbit as Swain: A world of myth
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| # Frodo Anti-[[wikipedia:Faust|Faust]]: ''The Lord of the Rings'' as contemporary mythology
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| # Tolkien's World: The structure and aesthetic of ''The Lord of the Rings''
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| # The Myth Allegorized: Tolkien's minor prose
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| # Last Gleanings from the Red Book: Scholarly parody in ''The Adventures of Tom Bombadil''
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| * Afterword
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| * Notes
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| * Index
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