Table of Contents:
  • The critic as monster: Tolkien's lectures, prefaces, and foreword
  • The king under the mountain: Tolkien's children's story
  • The Christian king: Tolkien's fairy-stories
  • The Germanic lord: Tolkien's medieval parodies
  • The lord of the rings: Tolkien's epic
  • The creator of the Silmarils: Tolkien's "Book of lost tales."