Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-178) and index.
Contents
The appeal of The Lord of the rings: a struggle for life / Hugh T. Keenan -- The Lord of the rings as literature / Burton Raffel -- Frodo anti-Faust: The Lord of the rings as contemporary mythology -- 1925-1949(ii): The third age / Humphrey Carpenter -- The Lord of the rings: Tolkien's epic / Jane Chance Nitzche -- Defining The Lord of the rings: an adventure story in Edwardian mode / Jared Lobdell -- Recovery: name in The Lord of the rings / David L. Jeffrey -- The medieval-renaissance vision of The Lord of the rings / Rose A. Zimbardo -- The quest as legend: The Lord of the rings / Katharyn W. Crabbe.