Series Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on Contributors.- Introduction; Peter Hunt.- 1. The Hobbit, the Tale, Children's Literature, and the Critics; Keith O'Sullivan.- 2. Sources and Successors; Maria Sachiko Cecire.- 3. The Pastoral Impulse and the Turn to the Future in The Hobbit and Interwar Children's Fiction; Hazel Sheekey Bird.- 4. Tolkien and the Traditional Dragon Tale: An Examination of The Hobbit; C.W.Sullivan III.- 5. Tolkien's Language; Louise Joy.- 6. There and Back Again: The Gendered Journey of Tolkien's Hobbits; Zoe Jaques.- 7. Tolkien and Worldbuilding; Catherine Butler .- 8. A Topoanalytical Reading of Landscapes in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit; Jane Suzanne Carroll.- 9. Tolkien and Trees; Shelley Saguaro and Deborah Cogan Thacker.- 10. From Illustration to Film: Visual Narratives and Target Audiences; Kate Harvey.- Further Reading.- Index.