Green suns and faërie : essays on Tolkien
(Book)

Tolkien sub-creator. Fantasy and reality: J.R.R. Tolkien's world and the fairy-story essay ; The music and the task: fate and free will in Middle-earth ; Tolkien and the idea of the book ; Tolkien on Tolkien: "On fairy-stories," The hobbit, and The lord of the rings ; When is a fairy story a faërie story? Smith of Wootton Major ; The footsteps of Ælfwine ; The curious incident of the dream at the barrow: memory and reincarnation in Middle-earth ; Whose myth is it?

Tolkien in tradition. Tolkien's Wild Men from medieval to modern ; Tolkien and the matter of Britain ; Frodo and Aragorn: the concept of the hero ; Bilbo's neck riddle ; Allegory vs. bounce: Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major ; Flieger ; Shippey ; A mythology for Finland Tolkien and Lönnrot as mythmakers ; Tolkien, Kalevala, and "The story of Kullervo" ; Brittany and Wales in Middle-earth ; The Green Knight, the Green Man, and Treebeard: scholarship and invention in Tolkien's fiction ; Missing person

Tolkien and his century. A cautionary tale: Tolkien's mythology for England ; The mind, the tongue, and the tale ; A post-modern medievalist ; Taking the part of trees: eco-conflict in Middle-earth ; Gilson, Smith, and Baggins ; The body in question: the unhealed wounds of Frodo Baggins ; A distant mirror: Tolkien and Jackson in the looking-glass.