The Proverbs of Middle-Earth

Download or read book The Proverbs of Middle-Earth written by Rowe Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his great Tree of Tales, it is the leaves - the tiny details - in which J.R.R. Tolkien took greatest delight. One of the ways this manifested itself in Middle-earth is in the fully-formed oral traditions from the diverse peoples and cultures contained in it. In The Proverbs of Middle-earth, David Rowe explores over 400 original proverbs that show the wisdom traditions found in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, investigating the degree to which Tolkien's proverbs not only delight and instruct, but also bring revelatory "inner reality" to his created world.