| A long phase of reverence for rationality subverted his original, spiritually frenetic passion for tragic mythopoeia. |
| Although a major work in itself, the story was only the last movement of a larger epic Tolkien had worked on since 1917, in a process he described as mythopoeia. |
| This view was expressed in his poem and essay entitled Mythopoeia. |
| He is the only one who relates mythopoeia to the dynamism of human imagination. |
| Whatever the limitations of his own myth-making, Tolkien's genius as a storyteller rekindled the flame of mythopoeia for generations of writers who followed. |
| In the next four chapters, he attempts to uncover the mythopoeia. |
