{"product_id":"tolkien-history-meets-legend-nancy-bunting-9783905703566","title":"Tolkien - History Meets Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Legend and History have met and fused\" (OFS 156)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays deal with how Tolkien excavated the mother lode of his own history to create legends. This strategy can be seen in his use of S.R. Crockett's \u003cem\u003eThe Black Douglas\u003c\/em\u003e and his late essay, \"Aldarion and Erendis.\" This biographical approach appears at the start of \u003cem\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/em\u003e in the Bombadil chapters, and in his intimate portrait of Faramir, the character\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhom Tolkien wrote is \"like me.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe main essay reviews the inferred traumatic events of March 1904, when food and water ran low and the isolated, housebound Mabel Tolkien was challenged by caring for two sick boys. Already in the late stages of diabetes, Mabel Tolkien faced only three possible medical outcomes: death, coma, or psychosis. In March 1904, the first two did not occur. The logically reconstructed events of March 1904 aim to reveal Tolkien's own History which \"resembles 'Myth', because they are both ultimately of the same stuff.\" Tolkien's story and its eucatastrophe in \"the sudden miraculous experience of Fr. Francis love and care and humour\" which allowed an escape from \"hunger, thirst, poverty, pain, sorrow, injustice, death,\" all parts of the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etrauma of 1904.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy grounding the reading of Tolkien's writings, artwork, and maps in his biography, these detailed essays provide unique insights into his creations. As Tolkien said: \"I hold the key.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nancy Bunting\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3905703564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783905703566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Walking Tree Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.76d","brand":"Nancy Bunting","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852987904255,"sku":"9783905703566","price":24.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tolkien-history-meets-legend-nancy-bunting-9783905703566","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}