Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments and Permissions -- Abbreviations for Works by Tolkien -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Tolkien and the "Fundamental Literary Dilemma -- Chapter Two: Great Matters Grown Dim: The Allusive Web of the Last Alliance -- Chapter Three: "Strange Lumber": Faded Tradition in the Túrin Saga -- Chapter Four: A Portrait of the Poet as a Young Man: Omission in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth -- Chapter Five: Destroying Magic, Kindling Fire: Untold Tales and Tolkien's Legacy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.