The Hobbit and Philosophy: For When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way

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Title: The Hobbit and Philosophy: For When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way
Author: Gregory Bassham, Eric Bronson
Year: 2012
ISBN-10: 9780470405147
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Price: $17.95
Pages: x+262
Binding: Trade Paperback
Type: Non-fiction
Title Reference: The Hobbit and Philosophy
Notes: 1st printing per number line. No date printed beyond (c) 2012. Date, price from Amazon.com as of 2012-09-01. There is a sticker with $21.95 as a Canadian price. No sign of price on archive.org copy. Cover Photograph: (c) Hamish Innes-Brown / Getty Images Cover Design: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. The page count of 'x' is uncertain - they are generally about 2 pages but Amazon quoted 272 pages. The essays are divided into different sections: - Discover Your Inner Took - The Good, The Bad and the Slimy - Riddles and Rings - Being There and Back Again There is introductory material - 'Acknowledgments: Thag You Very Buch' on p. x and 'Index: The Moon Letters' on pp. 257-262 which are left out of the Contents. The essay on the contributing authors ('Contributors: Our Most Excellent and Audacious Contributors') may contain fictitious material. Several titles use italics: 'Pride and Humility in The Hobbit', '"Pretty Fair Nonsense": Art and Beauty in The Hobbit', 'Hobbitus Ludens: Why Hobbits Like to Play and Why We Should Too', 'Inside The Hobbit: Bilbo Baggins and the Paradox of Fiction' and 'Philosophy in the Dark: The Hobbit and Hermeneutics'.