A Real Taste for Fairy-stories

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This volume of essays comprises more than a dozen of essays by one of the leading Tolkien scholars in which she addresses central questions concerning the status structure and meaning of Tolkien's work for a 21</span><sup style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>st</sup><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> century audience.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger is author of </span><em>A Question of Time. J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (1997) </span><em>Splintered Light. Logos and Language in Tolkien's World</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (2002) and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Interrupted Music. The Making of Tolkien's Mythology</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (2005). She has published three collections of essays on Tolkien and was responsible for the publication of editions of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Smith of Wootton Major Aotrou and Itroun</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Story of Kullervo</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p>