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Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology is the third scholarly book by Verlyn Flieger.
Published by The Kent State University Press in 2005, it aims to illuminate the literary models and framework that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion was founded on. Some notable sections discuss Eriol the Mariner and the seminal tales accessed through him, suggestions in The Lost Road that Tolkien intended in 1936 to write a time-travel story, and thoughts on Tolkien's purpose behind his whole mythology at large.
The book's title refers to the creation of the World, in which Eru Ilúvatar and the Ainur's music was interrupted by Melkor's deviance from it, determining the state and future of Arda.
Contents[]
- Part 1: "to England"
- The Motives
- The Models
- Points of View: Whose Myth Is It?
- The Tradition
- Part 2: The Artificer and the Foreconceit
- The Artifice
- Part 3: The Beauty Some Call Celtic
- The Otherworld
- An Unfinished Symphony
- Afterword
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Books authored by Verlyn Flieger
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