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Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon (review)

Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon (review) Book Reviews ing imagination. Sometimes, however, as in stories he perhaps didn't read, such as John Buchan's "The Far Islands," with its hero's visions of a land in the West, or A. Merritt's "The Woman of the Wood," with its trees that attempt to defend themselves, one still finds echoes of themes he later used, but such echoes are maybe inevitable given the general themes to be found in fairy-stories or fantasy. Apart from the stories in this book serving to indicate how the modern genre of fantasy began to define itself, they have the slightly different function of simply making available to interested readers a good many of the tales to which Tolkien variously refers. Reading this book was for this reviewer and long-time Tolkien-fan the first time he has actually read MacDonald's "The Golden Key" or Knatchbull-Hugessen's "Pusscat Mew"--although I should have liked to see, perhaps, the Brothers Grimm's tale "The Juniper Tree" in place of, say, Austin Tappan Wright's "The Story of Alwina," an extract from the mostly unpublished background materials to his pseudo-history lslandia (published as a novel in 1942), and belonging, I think, to a slightly different genre from fantasy. And finally this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tolkien Studies West Virginia University Press

Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon (review)

Tolkien Studies , Volume 2 (1) – May 16, 2005

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Book Reviews ing imagination. Sometimes, however, as in stories he perhaps didn't read, such as John Buchan's "The Far Islands," with its hero's visions of a land in the West, or A. Merritt's "The Woman of the Wood," with its trees that attempt to defend themselves, one still finds echoes of themes he later used, but such echoes are maybe inevitable given the general themes to be found in fairy-stories or fantasy. Apart from the stories in this book serving to indicate how the modern genre of fantasy began to define itself, they have the slightly different function of simply making available to interested readers a good many of the tales to which Tolkien variously refers. Reading this book was for this reviewer and long-time Tolkien-fan the first time he has actually read MacDonald's "The Golden Key" or Knatchbull-Hugessen's "Pusscat Mew"--although I should have liked to see, perhaps, the Brothers Grimm's tale "The Juniper Tree" in place of, say, Austin Tappan Wright's "The Story of Alwina," an extract from the mostly unpublished background materials to his pseudo-history lslandia (published as a novel in 1942), and belonging, I think, to a slightly different genre from fantasy. And finally this

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Published: May 16, 2005

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