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Journal Article
THE RIDDLES OF THE HOBBIT
2014
Overview
A simple critical r \\work about The Hobbit it is assuredly not; Roberts explores Anglo-Saxon wordplay, Tolkien's Middle-earth, the conventions of the fantasy genre, and the acts of reading, writing and literary criticism, with the titular Riddles as a kind of locus, a central point to which he invariably returns. [...]riddles are \"a truer representation of the nature of reality than simple declarative statements [...] [...]Roberts spends several chapters detailing Tolkien's probable or definite sources, many of which are impenetrable without the insight into the Anglo-Saxon world and worldview which Roberts provides. Riddles is worth reading, but perhaps not for its critical approach (an insistence on close textual analysis and cultural context, in many ways a quiet rejection of highly theoretical and ideological literary criticism) or for its answers to the questions it raises.
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Mythopoeic Society
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