Scholarship and Fantasy

Scholarship and Fantasy: Proceedings of the Tolkien Phenomenon, Turku, May 1992
Author	Keith Battarbee (ed)
Publisher	Department of English, University of Turku
Released	1993
Format	(Unknown Binding)
Pages	236
ISBN	978-9512900879

Scholarship and Fantasy is a collection of the papers presented at The Tolkien Phenomenon in Turku, Finland, in May 1992.

Contributors and contents

• Keith Battarbee
  • "Speculative Fiction and Ideology"
• Luigi de Anna
  • "The Magic of Words: J.R.R. Tolkien and Finland"
• Helena Rautala
  • "Familiarity and Distance: Quenya's Relation to Finnish"
• Christina Scull
  • "The Influence of Archaeology and History on Tolkien's Middle-earth"
• Anders Stenström
  • "Some Notes on Giants in Tolkien's Writings"
• Andy Orchard
  • "Tolkien, the Monsters, and the Critics: Back to Beowulf"
• Verlyn Flieger
  • "The Green Man, the Green Knight, and Treebeard: Scholarship and Invention in Tolkien's Fiction"
• Fredrik Heinemann
  • "Tolkien and Old Icelandic Literature"
• Paul Bibire
  • "Sægde seþe cuþe: J.R.R. Tolkien as an Anglo-Saxonist"
  • "By Stock or by Stone: Recurrent Imagery and Narrative Pattern in The Hobbit"
• Colin Duriez
  • "Sub-creation and Tolkien's Theology of Story"
• Clive Tolley
  • "Tolkien and the Unfinished"
• David Llewellyn Dodds
  • "Technology and Sub-creation: Tolkien's Alternative to the Dominant Worldview"
• Vappu Viemerö
  • "Violence and Fantasy"
• Tom A Shippey
  • "Tolkien as a Post-War Writer"