Constructive Mythopoetics in J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium

Abstract
Tiivistelmä
Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
	1.1 Background and Research Questions
	1.2 The Mythopoetic Code of Tolkien’s Legendarium
	1.3 Disposition of the Dissertation
	1.4 On Constructive (Mytho)Poetics
2 The Creation and the Existence
	2.1 The Song of Ainur: The Cosmogonical Creation Myth in The Silmarillion
		2.1.1 Two Levels of Creation: Vision and Realisation, and Physical and Spiritual Existence
		2.1.2 Cosmology and the Chain of Being
	2.2 Tolkien’s Mythopoeia in On Fairy-Stories and in the Legendarium
		2.2.1 Tolkien and Traditional Constructive Poetics: Concerning Sidney and Coleridge
		2.2.2 Christian Platonic Mythopoetics: Philosophy of Afterlife
		2.2.3 The Inklings and the Power of Words
	2.3 Fictional Mythology Dedicated “to England”
		2.3.1 The Speculative Historical Epic
		2.3.2 Contextual Circles of Myth and Genre
3 The Fall and the Struggle
	3.1 Long Defeat
	3.2 Mythopoeia in Effect
		3.2.1 Mythopoetic Allegories
		3.2.2 Mythical Heroes
	3.3 Examples of Constructive Mythopoeia
		3.3.1 Númenor: an Atlantis myth
		3.3.2 The One Ring and the Ring-motif
		3.3.3 Familiarisation and Defamialiarisation of Myth
4 Conclusions
List of References