This book is immediately misleading in that the title might make you think it contains all the Icelandic sagas. It does not; not even close. What it does contain is two of the longest sagas and a selection of the shorter ones (including the Vinland Sagas) as well as a selection of "Tales". This si...
A selection of scholarly essays on literary influences on The Hobbit and LOTR, some of which are very interesting (the ones on Tolkien's views of loss, evil, and darkness (in comparison with Milton), as well as the generally ignored complexities of his ecological consciousness, but others of which (...