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In The Course Of His Travels From A Cozily Appointed Little Home In Bag-end To The Dark And Smoky Lair Of Smaug The Dragon, The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins Comes Upon Not Only Dwarves, Elves, Goblins, And Giant Spiders But A Wiser, Better Self. His Journey, Like Those Of The Heroes In The Long Tradition Of Quest Stories Preceding The Hobbit, Marks His Passage From Fearfulness To Bravery, From Self-indulgence To Self-reliance, From Ignorance To Knowledge, From A Kind Of Prolonged Adolescence To Responsible Adulthood. William H. Green's Finely Crafted Study Places The Hobbit In The Company Of Such Quest Narratives As Beowulf, The Odyssey, Don Quixote, And Tom Jones. Giving J.r.r. Tolkien's Fantasy Tale For Children The Serious Scholarly Attention Often Reserved For Works Intended For Adults, Green Shows How Tolkien Adapted The Structure And Dramatic Force Of The Mythic Quest To A Modern Literary Form. Underlying Tolkien's Tall Tale Of An Unlikely Hero Drawn Into A Fantastic Series Of Adventures Is A Complex Exploration Of The Nature Of The Human Journey Into Maturity And Of The Power Of Myth To Both Elucidate And Validate That Journey. Tolkien Shared With Psychoanalyst C.g. Jung An Abiding

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Author

Green, William H. Green

Publisher

New York: Twayne Publishers ; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780805788068

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Technology

Rating

4 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14