An analysis of the letter reveals that while, as many scholars have shown, the ‘sources’ and ‘inspirations’ of The Hobbit include the likes of Beowulf and the Poetic Edda, already in 1937-and contrary to his own later claims-Tolkien’s principal primary source for fleshing out his prose stories with characters, places, and references to historical events was the vast legendarium he had created himself. This article publishes for the first time Tolkien’s response to Ransome in its entirety, and answers some of the questions regarding the chronology of Tolkien’s correspondence which arise. The sacrifice in Lilith goes beyond mere.
One key insight from Phantastes, that love is only complete when it is fully self-sacrificing, is central to the message of Lilith.
Tolkien lost no time in replying, and his letter provides one of his earliest comments on his published fiction, and a relatively early explicit commentary on his mythic writing. Lilith, MacDonald’s final novel written forty years after Phantastes, continues its themes of nature throbbing with vitality, shrouded in beauty, and birthing joy. Tolkien with a few comments on Tolkien’s newly published book The Hobbit. On December 13th 1937, the celebrated children’s author Arthur Ransome wrote to J. The article edits a letter from Tolkien to Ransome held in the Brotherton Library of the University of Leeds.
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