Tolkien and Wales

Tolkien and Wales is the first book to offer a detailed examination of the influence of Wales on Tolkien's fiction and scholarly work, including some relatively neglected texts.

Both interesting and accessible, deserving of a place on the bookshelf of anyone who is interested in learning more about Tolkien,Required reading for anyone who has a serious interest in Tolkien's work'.,With this work, Carl Phelpstead corrects a flagrant injustice'; 'In the end, this book will surely interest Tolkien's fans who would like to learn more about his Welsh sources of inspiration. The mutual influence of literature and linguistics in Tolkien's works is particularly well described, and this confirms the usefulness of such an approach. The study of Tolkien's academic works is interesting, and their impact on his literary inventions well documented.',This is a book that offers much to both the serious student of Tolkien, as well as those who are simply interested in discovering more about the various influences on Tolkien's writing.