Tolkien the Medievalist

by Chance,Jane; Chance,Jane

• ISBN13: 9780415289443
• ISBN10: 0415289440
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
List of abbreviations	xv
Introduction	1	(12)
Jane Chance
PART I J. R. R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts	13	(80)
``An industrious little devil'': E. V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien	15	(11)
Douglas A. Anderson
``There would always be a fairy-tale'': J. R. R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy	26	(10)
Verlyn Flieger
A kind of mid-wife: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis -- sharing influence	36	(14)
Andrew Lazo
``I wish to speak'': Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay	50	(13)
Mary Faraci
Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation: myth and history in World War II	63	(30)
Christine Chism
PART II J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts	93	(76)
Tolkien's Wild Men: from medieval to modern	95	(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