TY - BOOK AU - Chance,Jane TI - Tolkien the medievalist T2 - Routledge studies in medieval religion and culture SN - 0203218019 AV - PR6039.O32 Z87 2003eb U1 - 823/.912 22 PY - 2003/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Tolkien, J. R. R. KW - Medievalism KW - England KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Fantasy fiction, English KW - Medieval influences KW - Literature, Medieval KW - Appreciation KW - Middle Earth (Imaginary place) KW - Medievalism in literature KW - Middle Ages in literature KW - Mythology in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Médiévisme KW - Angleterre KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - Roman fantastique anglais KW - Histoire et critique KW - Littérature médiévale KW - Appréciation KW - Terre du Milieu (Lieu imaginaire) KW - Médiévisme dans la littérature KW - Moyen Âge dans la littérature KW - Mythologie dans la littérature KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - Learning and scholarship KW - fast KW - Mediëvistiek KW - gtt KW - Fantasie KW - Letterkunde KW - The lord of the rings (Tolkien) KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-284) and index; 1. Introduction; Jane Chance --; pt. 1; J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar : modern contexts; 2. "An; industrious little devil" : E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien; Douglas A. Anderson --; 3; "There would always be a fairy-tale" : J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy; Verlyn Flieger --; 4; A kind of mid-wife : J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis--sharing influence; Andrew Lazo --; 5; "I wish to speak" : Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay; Mary Faraci --; 6; Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation : myth and history in World War II; Christine Chism --; 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; Verlyn Flieger --; 8; The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the rings : Galadriel, Shelob, ʹEowyn, and Arwen; Leslie A. Donovan --; 9; Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the rings; Miranda Wilcox --; 10; "Oathbreakers, why have ye come?" : Tolkien's "Passing of the Grey Company" and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum; Margaret A. Sinex --; 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; John William Houghton --; 12; The "music of the spheres" : relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory; Bradford Lee Eden --; 13; The anthropology of Arda : creation, theology, and the race of Men; Jonathan Evans --; 14. "A; land without stain" : medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel; Michael W. Maher --; 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; Gergely Nagy --; 16; Real-world myth in a secondary world : mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Lʹuthien; Richard C. West N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=92441 ER -