Tolkien: Man and Myth

by Joseph Pearce

  10 Lewis, Of This and Other Worlds, pp. 73-5. Back to text.

  11 Susan Wood (ed.), The Languages of the Night, New York: Berkeley Books, 1979, p. 58. Back to text.

  12 Patrick Curry, ‘Tolkien and His Critics: A Critique’, unpublished manuscript, p. 2. Back to text.

  13 Ibid. Back to text.

  14 Ibid., p. 3. Back to text.

  15 Ibid. Back to text.

  16 Humphrey Carpenter on the BBC’s Bookshelf, 22 November 1991. Back to text.

  17 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters ofJ.R.R. Tolkien, p. 63. Back to text.

  18 Ibid., p. 235. Back to text.

  19 Christopher Derrick, interview with the author. Back to text.

  20 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 65. Back to text.

  21 Ibid., pp. 55-6. Back to text.

  22 Ibid., pp. 375-6. Back to text.

  23 Ibid., p. 37. Back to text.

  24 Ibid. Back to text.

  25 Robert Giddings (ed.), J.R.R. Tolkien: This Far Land, p. 40. Back to text.

  26 Ibid., p. 73. Back to text.

  27 Ibid., pp. 82-3. Back to text.

  28 Ibid., pp. 189-91. Back to text.

  29 Moseley, J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 75. Back to text.

  30 Giddings (ed.), J.R.R. Tolkien: This Far Land, p. 119. Back to text.

  31 The Times, 20 January 1997. Back to text.

  32 Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, pp. 147-8. Back to text.

  33 Ibid., p. 159. Back to text.

  34 Gerard Manley Hopkins, Selected Poems, Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994, p. 119. Back to text.

  35 Yancey (ed.), Reality and the Vision, pp. 35-6. Back to text.

  36 Crisis, March 1992. Back to text.

  37 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 25 5. Back to text.

  38 Tolkien, The Silmarillion, p. 31. Back to text.

  39 Maurice Baring, Have You Anything to Declare!, London: Heinemann, 1936, p. 147. Back to text.

  40 Emma Letley, Maurice Baring: A Citizen of Europe, London: Constable, 1991, p. 2,17. Back to text.

  41 Laura Lovat, Maurice Baring: A Postscript, London: Hollis & Carter, 1947, pp. 4-5. Back to text.

  42 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 171-2. Back to text.

  43 Father Ricardo Irigaray, ‘The Theological Style of J.R.R. Tolkien’, unpublished manuscript. Back to text.

  44 Father Charles Dilke, letter to the author, 18 August 1997. Back to text.

  45 Coulombe, The Lord of the Rings: A Catholic View, p. 11. Back to text.

  46 J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1988 ed., p. 64. Back to text.

  CHAPTER 9

  1 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 213-14. Back to text.

  2 Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, p. 180. Back to text.

  3 Ibid., p. 89. Back to text.

  4 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 88. Back to text.

  5 Ibid., p. 250. Back to text.

  6 Ibid., p. 212. Back to text.

  7 Ibid., p. 218. Back to text.

  8 Ibid., p. 65. Back to text.

  9 Ibid., p. 218. Back to text.

  10 Ibid., p. 213. Back to text.

  11 Ibid., p. 108. Back to text.

  12 Ibid., p. 54. Back to text.

  13 Ibid., p. 288. Back to text.

  14 Visual Corporation Limited, A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien. Back to text.

  15 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937, p. 32. Back to text.

  16 Ibid., p. 208. Back to text.

  17 Ibid., p. 190. Back to text.

  18 Ibid., p. 235. Back to text.

  19 Ibid., p. 237. Back to text.

  20 Ibid., pp. 284-5. Back to text.

  21 Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, p. 3 90. Back to text.

  22 Ibid., p. 13. Back to text.

  23 Ibid., p. 657. Back to text.

  24 Ibid., p. 921. Back to text.

  25 Ibid., p. 382. Back to text.

  26 Ibid., p. 494. Back to text.

  27 Ibid., p. 495. Back to text.

  28 Alida Becker (ed.), The Tolkien Scrapbook, Philadelphia: Running Press, 1978, p. 26. Back to text.

  29 Paul H. Kocher, Master of Middle Earth: The Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1972, p. 26. Back to text.

  30 Coulombe, The Lord of the Rings: A Catholic View, p. 7. Back to text.

  31 Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, p. 935. Back to text.

  32 Ibid., p. 1049. Back to text.

  33 Observer, 13 December 1925. Back to text.

  34 G.K. Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature, London: Williams & Norgate, 1913, pp. 16-17. Back to text.

  35 Ibid. Back to text.

  36 G.K. Chesterton, William Cobbett, London: Hodder &. Stoughton, 1925, pp. 14-15. Back to text.

  37 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 92. Back to text.

  38 George Sayer, fack: C.S. Lewis and His Times, London: Macmillan, 1988, p. xvi. Back to text.

  39 South Atlantic Bulletin, 39, No. ii, May 1974, pp. 10-16. Back to text.

  40 Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, p. 162. Back to text.

  41 Ibid., p. 504. Back to text.

  42 Visual Corporation Limited, A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien. Back to text.

  43 Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, p. 146. Back to text.

  44 Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, pp. 325-6. Back to text.

  45 Church Socialist Quarterly, January 1909. Back to text.

  46 Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, pp. 484-5. Back to text.

  47 G.K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles, New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1909, p. 134. Back to text.

  48 Ibid., pp. 298-303. Back to text.

  49 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Father Christmas Letters, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1976. Back to text.

  50 Richard Jeffery, unpublished manuscript of talk to the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society, February 1994, p. 15. Back to text.

  51 J.R.R. Tolkien, Smith of Wootton Major, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1967^.31. Back to text.

  52 Ibid., p. 56. Back to text.

  53 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 195. Back to text.

  54 Kocher, Master of Middle Earth, pp. 164-5. Back to text.

  55 Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays, pp. 156-7. Back to text.

  56 Visual Corporation Limited, A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien. Back to text.

  57 Tolkien, Tree and Leaf, p. 88. Back to text.

  58 Ibid., pp. 92-3. Back to text.

  59 Ibid., pp. 100-1. Back to text.

  60 Lin Carter, Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings, New York: Ballantine Books, 1969, pp. 93-4. Back to text.

  61 Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo (eds), Tolkien and the Critics: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968, pp. 129-30. Back to text.

  62 Ibid., p. 130. Back to text.

  63 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 81. Back to text.

  64 J.R.R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1949, p. 1. Back to text.

  65 Ibid., p. 56. Back to text.

  66 Ibid., p. 13. Back to text.

  67 Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, p. 101. Back to text.

  68 Ibid., p. 170. Back to text.

  69 Ibid., p. 1039. Back to text.

  70 G.K. Chesterton, The New Jerusalem, London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1920, p. 159. Back to text.

  CHAPTER 10

  1 Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, p. 225. Back to text.

  2 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 223. Back to text.

  3 Ibid. Back to text.

  4 Ibid. Back to text.

  5 Ibid., p. 261. Back to text.

  6 Ibid. Back to text.

  7 Ibid. Back to text.

  8 Salu and Farrell (eds), J.
R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays In Memoriam, p. 17. Back to text.

  9 The Times, 3 September 1973. Back to text.

  10 Salu and Farrell, J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays in Memoriam, p. 31. Back to text.

  11 Catholic Herald, 31 January 1997. Back to text.

  12 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 341. Back to text.

  13 Ibid. Back to text.

  14 Ibid., p. 342. Back to text.

  15 Ibid., p. 349. Back to text.

  16 Ibid., p. 350. Back to text.

  17 Moseley, J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 34-5. Back to text.

  18 Becker (ed.), The Tolkien Scrapbook, p. 86. Back to text.

  19 Independent, 20 January 1997. Back to text.

  20 Charles W. Moorman, The Precincts of Felicity: The Augustinian City of the Oxford Christians, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1966, passim. Back to text.

  21 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 401-2. Back to text.

  22 Ibid., pp. 337-9. Back to text.

  23 George Sayer, interview with the author, 3 September 1997. Back to text.

  24 Visual Corporation Limited, A Film Portrait of J.R.R. Tolkien. Back to text.

  25 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 419. Back to text.

  26 Ibid., p. 393. Back to text.

  27 Ibid., p. 394. Back to text.

  28 Ibid. Back to text.

  29 The Spectator, 23 November 1962. Back to text.

  30 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 394-5. Back to text.

  31 Ibid., p. 339. Back to text.

  32 Ibid., pp. 339-40. Back to text.

  33 Salu and Farrell (eds), J.R.R. Tolkien, Scholar and Storyteller: Essays In Memoriam, pp. 33-4. Back to text.

  34 Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, p. 161. Back to text.

  35 Interview with Denys Geroult, BBC Radio 4,16 December 1970. Back to text.

  36 Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, p. 161. Back to text.

  37 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 340. Back to text.

  38 Carpenter, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, p. 251. Back to text.

  39 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, p. 397. Back to text.

  40 Ibid., p. 401. Back to text.

  41 Ibid., p. 415. Back to text.

  42 Ibid., pp. 420-1. Back to text.

  43 Ibid., p. 432. Back to text.

  44 Tolkien, The Silmarillion, p. 224. Back to text.

  45 Ibid., p. 225. Back to text.

  46 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 53-4. Back to text.

  EPILOGUE

  1 Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, p. 943. Back to text.

  2 Carpenter (ed.), The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, pp. 399-400. Back to text.