{"product_id":"j-r-r-tolkien-by-robley-evans","title":"‘J.R.R. Tolkien’ by Robley Evans","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"auto\"\u003ePublished as part of Warner Paperback Library’s \u003cem\u003eWriters for the 70’s\u003c\/em\u003e series, Robley Evans’s study skirt the cult of Tolkien and digs into him as a writer, whose fiction is structurally bound up with myth, language, theology, time and the imaginative traditions he inherited.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eEvans looks through \u003cem\u003eThe Hobbit\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e and Tolkien’s critical writing to examine recurring concerns with decline, memory, power, mortality and the persistence of myth in modern literature. Evans’s treatment of Tolkien’s idea of “sub-creation” is really beguiling, it says that fantasy not as escape from reality but as the deliberate making of a secondary world through which reality can be encountered differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003eHe places Tolkien in relation to \u003cem\u003eBeowulf\u003c\/em\u003e, fairy tale, medieval literature and Christian cosmology, while also attending to the moral architecture of Middle-earth — its suspicion of domination, its fascination with lost greatness, and its sense that history is always moving away from an inaccessible beginning. A compact early critical study from the first wave of serious Tolkien scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarner Paperback Library, New York, 1972. First printing, December 1972. Paperback. Moderate shelf wear and rubbing to covers, with edge and corner wear; light age-toning throughout. Binding firm. Good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46328975687763,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation-2026-09-17T111517.346.png?v=1789607818","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/j-r-r-tolkien-by-robley-evans","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}