Tolkien the Medievalist

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ISBN: 9780415289443 | 0415289440
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/7/2003

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Interdisciplinary in approach, this book provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's medievalism. Fifteen essays explore how professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal.

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

xiii

List of abbreviations

Introduction

(12)

Jane Chance

PART I J. R. R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts

(80)

``An industrious little devil'': E. V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien

(11)

Douglas A. Anderson

``There would always be a fairy-tale'': J. R. R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy

(10)

Verlyn Flieger

A kind of mid-wife: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis -- sharing influence

(14)

Andrew Lazo

``I wish to speak'': Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay

(13)

Mary Faraci

Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation: myth and history in World War II

(30)

Christine Chism

PART II J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts

(76)

Tolkien's Wild Men: from medieval to modern

(11)

Verlyn Flieger

The valkyrie reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Eowyn, and Arwen

106

(27)

Leslie A. Donovan

Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings

133

(22)

Miranda Wilcon

``Oathbreakers, why have ye come?'': Tolkien's ``Passing of the Grey Company'' and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum

155

(14)

Margaret A. Sinen

PART III J. R. R. Tolkien: The texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography

169

(68)

Augustine in the cottage of lost play: the Ainulindale as asterisk cosmogony

171

(12)

John William Houghton

The ``music of the spheres'': relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory

183

(11)

Bradford Lee Eden

The anthropology of Arda: creation, theology, and the race of Men

194

(31)

Jonathan Evans

``A land without stain'': medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel

225

(12)

Michael W. Maher

PART IV J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology: medievalized retextualization and theory

237

(31)

The great chain of reading: (inter-)textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Turin story

239

(20)

Gergely Nagy

Real-world myth in a secondary world: mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Luthien

259

(9)

Richard C. West

References

268

(17)

Index

285

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