The Road to Middle-Earth
- ISBN-10
- 0395339731
- ISBN-13
- 9780395339732
- Category
- Literary Criticism / Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Pages
- 252
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Author
- T. A. Shippey
Description
The author draws on his own knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and on his friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien to show that the key to the inspiration, magic, and enchantment of Tolkien's Middle-earth books is language itself
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- 2012-03-08
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