ENG 446: Fiction of Lewis & Tolkien

In Tolkien and the Silmarillion, Clyde S. Kilby spins his remembrance of a summer's close personal acquaintance with J. R. R. Tolkien into an intimate portrait of the writer whose mythic universe has kindled the imagination of a vast audience. Here Kilby not only provides a rich diversity of clues to the content of that looked-for magnum opus, The Silmarillion, but elaborates on Tolkien's personal and literary relationships with his contemporaries, C. S. Lewis and Charles Williams.

Includes relevant chapter: "On Fate, Providence, and Free Will in The Silmarillion"

Includes relevant chapter: "Epilogue: The Silmarillion (1977)"

Includes relevant chapter: "The Evolution of a Friendship and the Writing of The Silmarillion"

Includes relevant chapter: "The Silmarillion"

Includes relevant chapter: "Dissonance in the Divine Theme: The Issue of Free Will in Tolkien's Silmarillion"

Includes several relevant chapters including "The 'Music of the Spheres': Relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and Medieval Cosmological and Religious Theory", "The Great Chain of Reading: (Inter- )Textual Relations and the Technique of Mythopoesis in the Túrin Story", and "Real-World Myth in a Secondary World: Mythological Aspects in the Story of Beren and Lúthien"

Includes relevant chapter: "Over the Chasm of Fire: Christian Heroism in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings"