Meditations on Middle-Earth New Writing on

Original essays on J.R.R. Tolkien from bestselling fantasy writers including George Martin, Orson Scott card and others. Includes art by John Howe, the world's foremost Tolkien illustrator. Illustrations.

Karen Haber is the art book reviewer for Locus, and profiles artists for both Realms of Fantasy and Galaxyonline. She is co-editor, along with her husband, Robert Silverberg, of the Bantam/Spectra science fiction anthologies, Universe 1 & 2.

John Howe is universally considered to be the foremost Tolkien illustrator (along with Alan Lee). He is currently hard at work with director Peter Jackson on the art design for the upcoming Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Preface: The Beat Goes On

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Karen Haber

Introduction

1

(6)

George R. R. Martin

Our Grandfather: Meditations on J. R. R. Tolkien

7

(14)

Raymond Feist

Awakening the Elves

21

(12)

Poul Anderson

A Changeling Returns

33

(14)

Michael Swanwick

If You Give a Girl a Hobbit

47

(14)

Esther M. Friesner

The Ring and I

61

(14)

Harry Turtledove

Cult Classic

75

(10)

Terry Pratchett

A Bar and a Quest

85

(16)

Robin Hobb

Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings

101

(16)

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Longest Sunday

117

(12)

Diane Duane

Tolkien After All These Years

129

(24)

Douglas A. Anderson

How Tolkien Means

153

(22)

Orson Scott Card

The Tale Goes Ever On

175

(10)

Charles De Lint

The Mythmaker

185

(14)

Lisa Goldstein

``The Radical Distinction...''

199

(16)

Timand Greg Hildebrandt

Glenn Hurdling

On Tolkien and Fairy-Stories

215

(16)

Terri Windling

Author Biographies

231

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Meditations on Middle-Earth New Writing on the Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien by Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Raymond E. Feist, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, George R. R. Martin, and more

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