Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording

Author:

Drout, Michael D. C., 1968-

Title:

Tolkien and the West [sound recording] : reclaiming Europe's lost literary tradition / by Michael D.C. Drout.

Publisher, Date:

Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, p2012.

Description:

4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Professor Michael D.C. Drout takes listeners on a literary journey, exploring Tolkien's most celebrated writings, while explaining the techniques and themes, to show how Tolkien crafted literary worlds that the reader cares desperately about and wishes to save.

Series:

Modern scholar.

Subjects:

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Lord of the rings.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Hobbit.

Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Silmarillion.

Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism.

Audiobooks.

Other Author:

Recorded Books, LLC.

Crescite Group, LLC.

Notes:

Compact disc.

Recording originally produced by Crescite Group, LLC, p2012.

In container (17 cm.).

"8 lectures"--Container.

Lecturer: Michael D.C. Drout, Wheaton College.

Contents:

Introduction : Tolkien and the West -- The development of technique : The hobbit -- A Western world worth saving : The fellowship of the ring -- Ruins and the ruined : The two towers -- Leavening joy with sadness : The return of the king -- The beauty of sorrow : The Silmarillion -- Real scholarship about imaginary things : the appendices and unfinished tales -- Further west than West : beyond the books.

ISBN:

9781464047053

1464047057

Publisher Number:

UC0111

Other Number:

797214293

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

330672

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

CD 823 Tolkien

Medium:

[sound recording]