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"Contents" -- "Preface and Acknowledgments" -- "Abbreviations" -- "Chronology of Composition and Publication Dates and Significant Events" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction: âThis Queer Creatureâ" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 2: Forlorn and Abject: Tolkien and His Earliest Writing (1914â1924)" -- "âGoblin Feet,â âYou and Me,â and âThe Cottage of Lost Playâ (1915â1917)" -- "An Early Literary Model: Antihero Kullervo in the Finnish Kalevala (1914â1919)" -- "Kullervo and Túrin Turambar" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 3: Bilbo as Sigurd in the Fairy-Story Hobbit (1920â1927)" -- "The Hobbit and the Legend of Sigurd as Fairy-Story" -- "Tolkienâs Cosmic Frame in The Legend of Sigurd and the Old Norse Edda" -- "Langâs Sigurd as Tolkienâs Antihero" -- "The Abject Hero: Tolkienâs Bilbo in The Hobbit" -- "The Fairy-Story as Mythmaking: The Silmarillion Steps In" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 4: Tolkienâs Fairy-Story Beowulfs (1926â1940s)" -- "Tolkienâs Beowulf Translations" -- "Beowulf, The Geat Hero" -- "Shield Sheafing, Beow(ulf), and Beewolf" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 5: âQueer Endingsâ After Beowulf: The Fall of Arthur (1931â1934)" -- "Arthur and His Men" -- "Arthur and Beowulf: âMan on Earthâ" -- "Queer Endings" -- "Notes" -- "Chapter 6: Apartheid in Tolkien: Chaucer and The Lord of the Rings, Books 1â3 (1925â1943)" -- "Apartheid/Apartness in Philological Scholarship (1925â1930)" -- "âSigelwara Landâ and the Old English âExodusâ" -- "Chaucerâs Rustics and Other âDubious Charactersâ" -- "The Lord of the Rings: The Homely and the Alien" -- "Bilbo and Frodo and the Shire" -- "The Bag End, Hobbiton, and Brandybuck Hobbits" -- "The Ivy Bush and the Green Dragon in Hobbiton" -- "Sméagol/Gollum" -- "The Brandybucks and Tooks of Buckland". Tolkien's Cosmic Frame in The Legend of Sigurd and the Old Norse Edda -- Lang's Sigurd as Tolkien's Antihero -- The Abject Hero: Tolkien's Bilbo in The Hobbit -- The Fairy-Story as Mythmaking: The Silmarillion Steps In -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Tolkien's Fairy-Story Beowulfs (1926-1940s) -- Tolkien's Beowulf Translations -- Beowulf, The Geat Hero -- Shield Sheafing, Beow(ulf), and Beewolf -- Notes -- Chapter 5: "Queer Endings" After Beowulf: The Fall of Arthur (1931-1934) -- Arthur and His Men -- Arthur and Beowulf: "Man on Earth" -- Queer Endings -- Notes Chapter 6: Apartheid in Tolkien: Chaucer and The Lord of the Rings, Books 1-3 (1925-1943) -- Apartheid/Apartness in Philological Scholarship (1925-1930) -- "Sigelwara Land" and the Old English "Exodus" -- Chaucer's Rustics and Other "Dubious Characters" -- The Lord of the Rings: The Homely and the Alien -- Bilbo and Frodo and the Shire -- The Bag End, Hobbiton, and Brandybuck Hobbits -- The Ivy Bush and the Green Dragon in Hobbiton -- Sméagol/Gollum -- The Brandybucks and Tooks of Buckland -- Merry and Pippin of Buckland, near the Old Forest -- Farmer Maggot, Good Friend to the Brandybucks The Gatekeeper at Bree -- The Hobbit Taxonomy: Families, Tribes, Peoples -- Sam -- Merry and Pippin -- Gollum -- Notes -- Chapter 7: "Usually Slighted": Gudrún, Other Medieval Women, and The Lord of the Rings, Book 3 (1925-1943) -- Conventional Tolkien -- Tolkien's Women: Students, Saints, and Holy Women -- The Ancrene Wisse (Riwle): The Anchoress's Rule -- From the Females in Beowulf to Brynhild and Gudrún -- Tolkien's "Beowulf " Teaching Translation -- Tolkien's Teaching Commentary: Grendel's Mother and Freawaru -- Tolkien's Lays, "Beowulf and Grendel I" and "Beowulf and the Monsters Brynhild and Gudrún -- The Flight of the Female in The Lord of the Ring, Book 3 -- Notes -- Chapter 8: The Failure of Masculinity: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1920), Sir Gawain (1925), and The Lord of the Rings, Books 3-6 (1943-1948) -- Masculinity and Medieval Errantry -- The Battle of Maldon and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Tolkien's Three Versions -- "Man to Man" in The Lord of the Rings -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: The Ennoblement of the Humble: The History of Middle-earth -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
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