Introduction "This Queer Creature"Chapter 1: Forlorn and Abject: Tolkien and His Earliest Writings (1914-1924)Chapter 2: Bilbo as Sigurd in the Fairy-Story Hobbit (1920-1927)Chapter 3: Tolkien's Fairy-Story Beowulfs (1926-1940s)Chapter 4: "Queer Endings" After Beowulf: The Fall of Arthur (1931-1934)Chapter 5: Apartheid in Tolkien: Chaucer and The Lord of the Rings, Books 1-3 (1925-1943)Chapter 6: "Usually Slighted" GudrĂșn, Other Medieval Women, and The Lord of the Rings, Book 3 (1925-1943) Chapter 7: The Failure of Masculinity: The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1920), Sir Gawain (1925), and The Lord of the Rings, Books 3-6 (1943-1948) Conclusion: The Ennoblement of the Humble: The History of Middle-earth