Tolkien's Middle-earth and its legendarium have drawn extensive
scholarly attention. But there is more to Tolkien than the history
and legends of Middle-earth, and there has hitherto been a certain
lack of academic criticism focused primarily on his shorter
fictional works Farmer Giles of Ham, Smith of Wootton Major,
Roverandom and his poetry. Although scholarly evaluations of these
works exist, they often deal with the shorter texts more as an
afterthought, as footnotes to the 'major' texts rather than as
demanding attention in their own right. This dearth of studies
suggests that it is time for a closer look at Tolkien's 'Shorter
Works'. The current volume collects the findings of a joint
conference of Walking Tree Publishers who co-organised this event
in order to celebrate their tenth anniversary, and the German
Tolkien Society at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena,
Germany in 2007. Various interesting aspects, details and
connections are unearthed which are likely to broaden not simply
the understanding of Tolkien's Shorter Works, but also of the
author's overall fictional work as well as the man and author
J.R.R. Tolkien himself.
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