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Tree and leaf : Mythopoeia ; The homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's son / J.R.R. Tolkien. [print]

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001Copyright date: �2001Edition: [Paperback edition 2001]Description: ix, 150 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0007105045
  • 9780007105045
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973. Homecoming of Beorhtnoth []
  • Container of (work): Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973. On fairy-stories
  • Container of (work): Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973. Leaf by Niggle
  • Container of (work): Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973. Mythopoeia
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 828.91209 21
LOC classification:
  • PN3437 .T6 2001
Online resources:
Available additional physical forms:
  • 1
Contents:
On fairy-stories -- Mythopoeia -- Leaf by Niggle -- Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's son.
Summary: "Fairy-stories are not just for children...In his essay On Fairy-stories, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate it to juvenilia...the short story Leaf by Niggle...recounts the story of the artist, Niggle, who has 'a long journey to make' and is seen as an allegory of Tolkien's life...The poem Mythopoeia, in which the author Philomythus, 'Lover of myth', confounds the opinion of Misomythus, 'Hater of myth'...[and finally] the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth,...a dramatic poem which takes up the story following the disastrous Battle of Maldon in 991, where the English commander Beorhtnoth was killed."--back cover.
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On fairy-stories -- Mythopoeia -- Leaf by Niggle -- Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's son.

"Fairy-stories are not just for children...In his essay On Fairy-stories, Tolkien discusses the nature of fairy-tales and fantasy and rescues the genre from those who would relegate it to juvenilia...the short story Leaf by Niggle...recounts the story of the artist, Niggle, who has 'a long journey to make' and is seen as an allegory of Tolkien's life...The poem Mythopoeia, in which the author Philomythus, 'Lover of myth', confounds the opinion of Misomythus, 'Hater of myth'...[and finally] the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth,...a dramatic poem which takes up the story following the disastrous Battle of Maldon in 991, where the English commander Beorhtnoth was killed."--back cover.

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