Meditations on Middle-Earth: New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Fei
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781429974738 (1429974737)
Publish date: October 11th 2002
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Writing,
Essays,
Reference,
Language,
Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Anthologies,
Short Stories
A few of these essays are brilliant, but there is a depressing recurring element to a lot of them. Repeatedly the authors reveal themselves to have been teenage loners and social outcasts who discovered Middle Earth at a critical stage and it became the perfect escape. If you are like me and brist...
I've been cheating on my real book with a regularity that hints at callousness, and this is one of my mistresses. (What is the term for a male mistress, anyway? Gigolo? Boy toy? Beard?) It was a fun read, if you're into this sort of thing, as I most avowedly am. The contributors are a veritable who'...