Tolkien

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About the Author
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I – The Making of a Philologist
Chapter 1 – Early Years
Chapter 2 – University and Edith
Chapter 3 – War
Chapter 4 – The Young Scholar
Part II – Philology in Practice
Chapter 5 – Oxford and Storytelling
Chapter 6 – Delays and Frustrations
Chapter 7 – A Wilderness of Dragons: Beowulf and The Hobbit
Plates I – VIII
Part III – Achievement
Chapter 8 – In the Background, War
Chapter 9 – Peace, Not Rest
Chapter 10 – Hyde and Jekyll
Chapter 11 – Finished, at Last
Chapter 12 – Philology at Bay
Chapter 13 – ‘My heart, to be shot at’
Part IV – Last Years
Chapter 14 – Silmarillion and Scholarship?
Chapter 15 – Unfinished Tales
Part V – Niggle’s Parish
Chapter 16 – Posthumous Publications
Chapter 17 – A Cinematic Afterlife
Epilogue
Appendix – Tolkien the Catholic
References
Further Reading and Bibliography
Index