Cover
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Citation
Abbreviations
Part One Religion, Fantasy, and Translation
1 Religion and Fantasy-What's the Difference?
Religion, Fantasy, and Truth
Miracles and Fairies
Flies in the Ointment
Allegory
Conclusions
2 Translation, an Elven Craft
"Versions of the Same Story"
Untranslatability and Loss
Comparing English and Chinese
Back-Translation
Conclusions
3 Tolkien in Chinese Books and Titles
The Yilin Press Edition

The Nature of Tolkien's Elves
Elves and Altered States
What Exactly is a Xian?
What Exactly is a (M/m)an?
Conclusions
7 Race
Moral Geography
Concepts of Race
Skin Color: Black
Skin Color: "Yellow"
Skin Color: White
Dwarves and Jews
Conclusions
8 Hell and Other Theories
Hell
Other Theories
Ghosts
Conclusions
9 White Shores and Beyond
The Halls of Mandos
Gandalf's Death and Resurrection
Dwindling away to the Undying Lands
Conclusions
10 Fate and Doom
Fate in Chinese
By Whom is Fate Fated?
Karma
Chance
Doom

Doom as Judgment
Doom as Fate
Doom as Bad Luck
Doom as the End/Last Days
Conclusions
11 Language
The Problem of G for Gandalf
The Word the
Capital Letters
Garbled Language
Archaisms
Idioms
Conclusions
12 Magical Language
Bad Language
Seductive Language
Curses
Spells
Cosmogonic Spells
Conclusions
13 And Back Again
Bibliography
Index