ABSTRACT
Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval mythologizing.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |80 pages
J. R. R. Tolkien as a Medieval Scholar
chapter |30 pages
Middle-Earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan Nation
part |76 pages
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Medieval Literary and Mythological Texts/Contexts
chapter |27 pages
The Valkyrie Reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
chapter |14 pages
“Oathbreakers, Why have Ye come?”
part |68 pages
J. R. R. Tolkien
chapter |11 pages
The “Music of the Spheres”
chapter |12 pages
“A Land without Stain”
part |31 pages
J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion Mythology