An essay by this author explains why a certain location "cannot be caught in a net of words, for it is one of its qualities to be indescribable, though not imperceptible.
An essay by this author explains why a certain location "cannot be caught in a net of words, for it is one of its qualities to be indescribable, though not imperceptible." In that essay, this author described the "sudden joyous 'turn'" of the happy endings provided by the title kind of literature as an example of "eucatastrophe." He included that essay, which was first presented as an Andrew Lang lecture in 1939, in his book Tree and Leaf. Another of this author's essays features an allegory about a man who builds a (*) tower from an accumulation of old stone, only for his friends to push it over to look for "hidden carvings and inscriptions." That essay rebuts the views of W. P. Ker, and divides its title poem into two major sections, the first about youth and the second about age. This author of "On Fairy Stories" also wrote a book describing the regions of Beleriand and Numenor. For 10 points, name this author who argued that Beowulf should be considered a poem, not a historical document, in The Monsters and the Critics, and developed a detailed fictional mythology in The Silmarillion.
An essay by this author explains why a certain location "cannot be caught in a net of words, for it is one of its qualities to be indescribable, though not imperceptible.
John Ronald Reuel (J. R. R.) Tolkien