Here Be Dragons
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Thror’s map. See Hobbit, The; Tolkien maps
Thrower, J. W., 39
time: between worlds or domains, 10, 74, 93, 143, 217; in Faerie, 84–85, 246–47n25; and geography, 12, 125–26; maps, encoded in, 48–49, 60–62; and polders, 100–101, 104–9, 109–110, 114–26; time abysses, 106, 116, 125, 249n63
Tobin-McClain, Lee, 240n45
Todorov, Tzvetan, 234n20
Tolkien, Christopher, 45, 55
Tolkien, J. R. R., 70, 71–72, 140, 199; anti-industrial sentiments, 200–201, 206, 261n70, 262n89; epigones, 15, 96, 236n35. See also Hobbit, The; Lord of the Rings, The; “On Fairy-stories”; Silmarillion, The; Tolkien maps
Tolkien maps, 12, 14, 38, 44, 238n4; creation of, 25, 45, 47, 50; history encoded in, 48–49, 60–62; names on, 47, 52, 59, 65–67; “A Part of the Shire,” 23–24, 44–55, 66; previous studies of, 16–18; roads on, 46–47, 59, 61 (see also roads); “The West of Middle-earth,” 23–24, 39, 55–67; as world creation, 14–15, 21–22. See also Hobbit, The; Lord of the Rings, The; Tolkien, J. R. R.
T-O maps, 25–26, 41
topofocal, 2–4, 11, 216, 218–20
topographical map elements, 36–37, 46–47, 49–50, 56–57
Tough Guide to Fantasyland, The (Jones), 15, 17, 36–37, 180, 188
Tourists. See Goldstein, Lisa
Traill, Nancy H., 10–11
Turner, Frederick, 131
VanderMeer, Jeff, 255n67
Vess, Charles, 247–48n38; Stardust, 12, 72, 82–92, 93, 95, 98, 247n36
Virgil, Aeneid, 70, 78, 197
Walker, R. C., 16, 238n4
Wallace, Kathleen R., 256n85
water margins, 26–28, 30, 37, 47, 173
Weis, Margaret, Dragonlance Chronicles, 236n34
Welch, Michelle M., Chasing Fire, 27–28
Westfahl, Gary, 233–34n20
Weston, Jessie L., 185–88, 258n37
White, Lynn, Jr., 131
white spaces. See blank spaces
Wilford, John Noble, 26
Williams, Tad, Caliban’s Hour, 236n33; Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, 259n49; War of the Flowers, 71, 183
Windling, Terry, Borderlands, 72
Wizard of Earthsea, A (Le Guin), 16, 18, 28–29
Wolfe, Gary K., 4, 9, 184–185, 190
Wolfe, Gene: The Book of the New Sun series, 10; the Soldier series, 222
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, 188
Wood, Denis, 20, 32–33, 41, 44, 46, 48
world, definition of, 9. See also actual world; dyadic worlds
worlds. See dyadic worlds; primary worlds; secondary worlds
Worsley, Peter, 131
Wyndham, John, “Confidence Trick,” 91–92
Wyrd Sisters (Pratchett), 181–82, 213
Zahorsky, Kenneth J., 2, 10, 41
Zelazny, Roger, Jack of Shadows, 72
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Stefan Ekman is a freelance lecturer on fantasy, role-playing games, and manga, and serves as the head of the Fantasy Literature Division at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts. He teaches in the creative writing program at Lund University in Sweden.