The Riddles of the Hobbit

Riddles are threaded through The Hobbit, and are key to Tolkien's creative imagination. The Riddles of The Hobbit situates this novel and the rest of Tolkien's writing in the context of Old English riddling culture, and more modern day examples; it sets out to solve the many riddles of the novel in original and often surprising ways.

Author: Adam Roberts
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 11/01/2013
Pages: 186
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781137373632
ISBN10: 1137373636
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century

About the Author
Adam Roberts is Professor of Nineteenth-century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. He is also the author of more than a dozen science fiction novels: his most recent, Jack Glass (2012) won the BSFA and Campbell awards for the year's best science fiction novel. He has published a number of critical and academic works on science fiction, 19th-century and other topics.