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Tolkien's medievalism in ruins : the function of relics and ruins in Middle-Earth / edited by Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973.
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel).
- Medievalism.
- Middle Ages in popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- "This collection demonstrates how to achieve more comprehensive scholarship on J. R. R. Tolkien, connecting Tolkien studies with other literary periods and cultural contexts"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Tolkien's medievalism in runs / Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell
- Ruins in Tolkien's literary criticism
- "To look out upon the sea" : Tolkien's use of the allegory of the tower in "Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics" / Mark Doerksen
- Tolkien's tower by the sea / Angela Fulk
- Relics and ruins in Arda
- Ruins of past tongues : Tolkien's timeless philology / Kevin J. Waldron
- "What do your elf eyes see?" : Perceiving ruins in Middle-Earth / J.L. Burton
- Ruins as landscape runes / Nancy Ciccone
- Wealth, ruin, and weregild in Tolkien's dwarvish civilizations / Victoria Smurthwaite
- "Too greedily and too deep" : Decadence and the relics of empires in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings / Sandra M. Leonard
- Romantic nostalgia in Tolkien's relics and ruins : Longing for Aman, Gondolin, and Núrmenor in The Lost Road / Nick Katsiadas
- The blade of of the King : Tolkien, Arthur, and the remnants of kingship / Carl Sell
- Relics and ruins in Tolkien adaptations
- Towers of silver : Ruins and relics in the Middle-Earth video game series / Seth Lee
- "You wield Aiglos, icicle of Gil-galad" : Relics as signposts in The Lord of the Rings Online and The Two Towers MUD / J.E. Lowell
- Marching through Mordor : Ruins and landscape in Summoning's Minas Morgul / Dean Swinford.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8189-833-5
- 979-82-16-26535-1
- 1-9787-6213-5
- 9781978762138
- OCLC:
- 1545126082
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