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Tolkien's View: Windows into his World is a collection of essays by J. S. Ryan concerning J.R.R. Tolkien, his legendarium, and his academic work. It is the nineteenth installment of Walking Tree Publishers' Cormarë Series, published in August 2009.
Contents[]
Part A: Early Biographic Pieces and Emerging Tastes[]
- "Those Birmingham Quietists: J.R.R. Tolkien and J.H. Shorthouse (1834–1903)"
- "The Oxford Undergraduate Studies in Early English and Related Languages of J.R.R. Tolkien (1913–1915)"
- "An Important Influence: His Professor’s Wife, Mrs Elizabeth Mary (Lea) Wright"
- "Trolls and Other Themes – William Craigie’s Significant Folkloric Influence on the Style of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit"
- "Homo Ludens — Amusement, Play and Seeking in Tolkien’s earliest Romantic Thought"
- "Edith, St. Edith of Wilton and the other English Western Saints"
Part B. The Young Professor and his Early Publishing[]
- "Tolkien and George Gordon: or, A Close Colleague and His notion of ‘Myth-maker’ and of Historiographic Jeux d’Esprit"
- "J.R.R. Tolkien: Lexicography and other Early Linguistic Preferences"
- "The Work and Preferences of the Professor of Old Norse at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1945"
- "The Poem ‘Mythopoeia’ as an Early Statement of Tolkien’s Artistic and Religious Position"
- "Tolkien’s Concept of Philology as Mythology"
- "By ‘Significant’ Compounding “We Pass Insensibly into the World of the Epic”
- "Barrow-wights, Hog-boys and the evocation of The Battle of the Goths and Huns and of St. Guthlac"
- "Dynamic Metahistory and the Model of Christopher Dawson"
- "Folktale, Fairy Tale, and the Creation of a Story"
- "The Wild Hunt, Sir Orfeo and J.R.R. Tolkien"
- "Mid-Century Perceptions of the Ancient Celtic Peoples of ‘England’"
- "Germanic Mythology Applied – the Extension of the Literary Folk Memory"
- "Perilous Roads to the East, from Weathertop and through the Borgo Pass"
- "Before Puck – the Púkel-men and the puca"
- Appendix - Othin in England – Evidence from the Poetry for a Cult of Woden in Anglo-Saxon England