Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-284) and index. - Print version record Jane Chance: 1. Introduction Douglas A. Anderson: pt. 1.J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar : modern contexts.2. "Anindustrious little devil" : E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien Verlyn Flieger: 3."There would always be a fairy-tale" : J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy Andrew Lazo: 4.A kind of mid-wife : J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis--sharing influence Mary Faraci: 5."I wish to speak" : Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay Christine Chism: 6.Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation : myth and history in World War II Verlyn Flieger: pt. 2.J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts.7.Tolkien's Wild Men : from medieval to modern Leslie A. Donovan: 8.The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings : Galadriel, Shelob, ʹEowyn, and Arwen Miranda Wilcox: 9.Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the rings Margaret A. Sinex: 10."Oathbreakers, why have ye come?" : Tolkien's "Passing of the Grey Company" and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum John William Houghton: pt. 3.J.R.R. Tolkien : the texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography.11.Augustine in the cottage of lost play : the Ainulindalë as asterisk cosmogony Bradford Lee Eden: 12.The "music of the spheres" : relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory Jonathan Evans: 13.The anthropology of Arda : creation, theology, and the race of Men Michael W. Maher: 14. "Aland without stain" : medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel Gergely Nagy: pt. 4.J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology : medievalized retextualization and theory.15.The great chain of reading : (inter- )textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Tʹurin story Richard C. West.: 16.Real-world myth in a secondary world : mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Lʹuthien |
