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| 1 | How to use this book | 1 |
| 2 | Introduction | 2 |
| 2.1 | Background | 2 |
| 2.1.1 | Why another book about Tolkien? | 2 |
| 2.1.2 | This is not a source book | 3 |
| 2.1.3 | Tolkien's career | 4 |
| 2.1.4 | Tolkien's fiction and medieval literature | 7 |
| 2.1.5 | Medieval sources | 11 |
| 2.2 | Medieval literature | 12 |
| 2.2.1 | Old English | 16 |
| 2.2.2 | Middle English | 20 |
| 2.2.3 | Old Norse | 23 |
| 2.3 | Thematic and technical parallels | 25 |
| 2.3.1 | The theme of the quest | 25 |
| 2.3.2 | The epic | 28 |
| 2.3.3 | The runes | 31 |
| 2.3.4 | Alliterative verse and Tolkien's verse | 38 |
| 2.3.5 | The names | 50 |
| 3 | The editions | 54 |
| 4 | The texts | 57 |
| The hobbit | 59 | |
| 4.1 | Gandalf and the dwarves - Voluspa, stanzas 9-16 (TH, 'an unexpected party') | 59 |
| 4.2 | Bilbo and Gollum's riddle-game - Vafpruonismal and Solomon and Saturn II, II. 47-68 and 104-23 (TH, 'riddles in the dark') | 73 |
| 4.3 | Bilbo meets Smaug - Beowulf, II. 2207-311 (TH, 'inside information') | 106 |
| The lord of the rings | 123 | |
| 4.4 | The elves at Rivendell - Sir Orfeo, II. 107-94 (FR, 'many meetings'; TH, 'a short rest' and 'flies and spiders') | 123 |
| 4.5 | Legolas's 'lament of the stones' - the ruin (FR, 'the ring goes south') | 133 |
| 4.6 | The fight at Balin's tomb - the fight at Finnsburg and 'Cynewulf and Cyneheard' (FR, 'the bridge of Khazad-Dum') | 146 |
| 4.7 | The crossing of the Nimrodel - Pearl, II. 61-276 (FR, 'lothlorien') | 164 |
| 4.8 | Boromir's death - Beowulf, II. 26-52 (TT, 'the departure of Boromir') | 177 |
| 4.9 | Treebeard's list - maxims II (TT, 'treebeard') | 183 |
| 4.10 | The Rohirrim - The wanderer and Beowulf, II. 306-70 (TT, 'the king of the golden hall') | 194 |
| 4.11 | The death of theoden and the arrival of the Mumakil - the battle of Maldon, II. 111-84 and AElfric's homily on the Maccabees, II. 499-519 (RK, 'the battle of Pelennor fields') | 217 |
| 4.12 | The landscape of mordor - Sir Gawain and the green knight, II. 713-63 and Beowulf, II. 1345-82 (RK, 'the land of shadow') | 235 |
| 4.13 | The final journey - the seafarer (RK, 'the grey havens') | 250 |
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Joseph Smetanka
reviewed The Keys Of Middle-Earth on October 14, 2020 The Keys Of Middle-Earth
I haven't finished The Hobbit and The Silmarillion sections yet because I was looking specifically for information on LOTR, but this book is SO COOL and very informative if you're interested in Tolkien and Medieval literature, or if you're just interested in Tolkien's influences in general!! I originally bought it to use as a source for a paper, but I think it's really essential for any Tolkien lover. It provides all the information necessary to understand all references, given you have access to the full text of LOTR, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion. It even gives the original and translated text of sources, which is a huge bonus for me. Really digestible and a great starting point for studying Tolkien's medieval influences!!
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