Abstract
Especially concerned with Bilbo’s characterization, unusual in children’s literature, as middle-aged, but also addresses other issues of world-building and story structure that reinforce this motif of “starting in the middle”: maps, the sense of the past, racial characteristics and relations. Birns draws interesting contrasts with the Alice in Wonderland and Oz books.
Recommended Citation
Birns, Nicholas
(2013)
""The Inner Consistency of Reality": Intermediacy in The Hobbit,"
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 31
:
No.
3
, Article 3.
Available at:
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol31/iss3/3
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