title: The genesis of J.R.R. Tolkein's mythology
abstract: This thesis critically examines the earliest creative work of J.R.R. Tolkien, from which the first version of his mythology would emerge, as one coherent whole, rather than a series of individual creative acts.It argues that all aspects of Tolkien's creativity worked in a dialectic way to bring to life an invented secondary world the complexity of which fantasy literature had not seen before.First and foremost, I would like to thank my
journal: Cardiff Metropolitan Research Repository (Cardiff Metropolitan University)