Middle-earth Minstrel

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Middle-earth Minstrel:
Essays on Music in Tolkien
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AuthorBradford Lee Eden (ed.)
PublisherMcFarland & Company
Released21 April 2010
FormatPaperback
Pages215
ISBN978-0786448142

Middle-earth Minstrel: Essays on Music in Tolkien is a collection of essays about music in Middle-earth, edited by Bradford Lee Eden.

Contents

  • Bradford Lee Eden: "Introduction"
  • Jason Fisher: "Horns of Dawn: The Tradition of Alliterative Verse in Rohan"
  • John R. Holmes: "'Inside a Song': Tolkien's Phonaesthetics"
  • Peter Wilkin: "Ǽfre me strongode longað: Songs of Exile in the Mortal Realms"
  • Danielle Richards: "J.R.R. Tolkien: A Fortunate Rhythm"
  • Deanna Delmar Evans: "Tolkien's Unfinished 'Lay of Lúthien' and the Middle English Sir Orfeo"
  • Bradford Lee Eden: "Strains of Elvish Song and Voices: Victorian Medievalism, Music, and Tolkien"
  • Keith W. Jensen: "Dissonance in the Divine Theme: The Issue of Free Will in Tolkien's Silmarillion"
  • Amy M. Amendt-Raduege: "'Worthy of a Song': Memory, Mortality and Music"
  • Amy H. Sturgis: "'Tolkien is the Wind and the Way': The Educational Value of Tolkien-Inspired World Music"
  • David Bratman: "Liquid Tolkien: Music, Tolkien, Middle-earth, and More Music"
  • Anthony S. Burdge: "Performance Art in a Tunnel: A Musical Sub-Creator in the Tradition of Tolkien"

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