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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.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Katsiadas, Nick, editor.
Sell, Carl, editor.
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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