The Individuated Hobbit

The Individuated Hobbit: Jung, Tolkien, and the Archetypes of Middle-Earth
Author	Timothy R. O'Neill
Genre	Literary criticism
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	September 1979
Pages	200
ISBN	0-395-28208-X
OCLC	5007475
Dewey Decimal	828/.9/1209
LC Class	PR6039.O32 Z78

The Individuated Hobbit: Jung, Tolkien, and the Archetypes of Middle-Earth (1979) is a critical study of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Timothy R. O'Neill. It is written from a Jungian perspective, with particular emphasis on Jungian archetypes.

Reception[]

The book was called "a compelling and influential Jungian reading" (2013) by Christopher Vaccaro, teditor of The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium.^[1]

Tolkien scholar Thomas Honegger called it "the unsurpassed standard work on the subject" (2019).^[2]

Refeerences[]

^ Christopher Vaccaro (2013). "The Body in Question". In Christopher Vaccaro (ed.). The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality. McFarland. p. 19.
^ Thomas Honegger (2019). "More Light Than Shadow? Jungian Approaches to Tolkien and the Archetypal Image of the Shadow". In Giovanni Agnoloni (ed.). Tolkien: Light and Shadow. Kipple Officina Libraria.

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[1] Christopher Vaccaro (2013). "The Body in Question". In Christopher Vaccaro (ed.). The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality. McFarland. p. 19.

[2] Thomas Honegger (2019). "More Light Than Shadow? Jungian Approaches to Tolkien and the Archetypal Image of the Shadow". In Giovanni Agnoloni (ed.). Tolkien: Light and Shadow. Kipple Officina Libraria.

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