![]() Visit The Professor’s Bookshelf, the home of books that influenced Professor JRR Tolkien. In The Lord of the Rings, Galadriel herself, along with her handmaidens, weaves the cloth of the cloaks that the Elves of Lórien give to the Company. The princess’s faery grandmother sits and spins at a wheel. MacDonald incorporates into his tale the powerful folk theme of women who spin or weave. The Princess and the Goblin is rich with literary treasures drawn from folk tradition. This ring aids her in an escape from the Goblin Underground, much as The One Ring aids Bilbo in The Hobbit. Princess Irene has a magic ring that is associated with invisibility, being linked to a semi-visible thread. In a 1938 letter to the Observer newspaper, Tolkien stated that some ideas in The Hobbit “derived from (previously digested) epic, mythology, and fairy-story-not, however, Victorian in authorship, as a rule to which George MacDonald is the chief exception”. When his children were young, he used to read The Princess and the Goblin to them in the evenings, before they went to bed. ![]() Tolkien was a great admirer of George MacDonald’s fairy-stories. ![]() The Princess and the Goblin A book that inspired Tolkien ![]()
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