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Introduction : "This Queer Creature" -- Forlorn and abject : Tolkien and his earliest writing (1914-1924) -- Bilbo as Sigurd in the fairy-story Hobbit (1920-1927) -- Tolkien's fairy-story Beowulfs (1926-1940s) -- "Queer endings" after Beowulf : The Fall of Arthur (1931-1934) -- Apartheid in Tolkien: Chaucer and The Lord of the Rings, Books 1-3 (1925-1943) -- "Usually slighted: Gudrun, other medieval women, and The Lord of the Rings, Book 3 (1925-1943) -- The failure of masculinity: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth(1920), Sir Gawain (1925), and The Lord of the Rings, Books 3-6(1943-1948) -- Conclusion : The ennoblement of the humble : The History of Middle-earth.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-265) and index.
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature
New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))