There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien

Introduction
Style, Usage, and Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
Part One: A Perilous Land - Defining Faerie
“There Would Always Be a ‘Fairy-tale’” J. R. R. Tolkien and the Folklore Controversy
But What Did He Really Mean?
Re-creating Reality
War, Death, and Fairy Stories in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien
Eucatastrophe and the Dark
Part Two: Faerie Begins - The Nuts and Bolts of Sub-cretion
Words and World-making, The Particle of Middle-earth
Myth, History, and Time-travel, The Lost Road and The Notion Club Papers
Politically Incorrect Tolkien
The Jewels, the Stone, the Ring, and the Making of Meaning
Making Choices, Moral Ambiguity in Tolkien’s Major Fiction
Part Three: Arresting Strangeness - Making It Different
The Forests and the Trees, Sal and Ian in Faerie
How Trees Behave—Or Do They?
Myth and Truth in Tolkien’s Legendarium
Fays, Corrigans, Elves, and More: Tolkien’s Dark Ladies
Part Four: Boiling Bones; Serving Soup
Tolkien, Kalevala, and Middle-earth
Tolkien’s Celtic Connection
Tolkien’s French Connection
Drowned Lands
Voyaging About, Tolkien and Celtic Navigatio
Permissions Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index