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"The Inner Consistency Of Reality": Intermediacy In The Hobbit, Nicholas Birns
"The Inner Consistency Of Reality": Intermediacy In The Hobbit, Nicholas Birns
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
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.