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Tolkien the Medievalist

Tolkien the Medievalist explores how Tolkien’s creative worlds were shaped by his

own scholarship on medieval literature. In trying to create a “mythology for

England” in the space of his fiction, Tolkien inevitably drew upon extant

medieval languages and literatures.

This is the first recent collection to examine anew the question of Tolkien’s

medievalness. Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays explore Tolkien’s position

within the context of twentieth-century medieval scholarship and religious

movements and his use of various works of medieval literature as a palimpsest

for the development of his own ideas.

In the first section, essays focus on how Professor Tolkien invested his profes-

sional interests in his writing and how those works and the movements of his day

may have affected his fiction. The second and third sections focus on specific

episodes, characters, concepts, and images and how they correspond to medieval

literary antecedents, in Old Norse, Old and Middle English, medieval Latin, and

in medieval Catholicism. In the fourth section, essays explain how mythological

retextualization in his fiction assumes a medieval form.

Essential reading for all scholars interested in J. R. R Tolkien, this work will

also be of vital interest to those working in the fields of medieval history and

literature, literary history, and literature in the early twentieth century.

Jane Chance ,Professor of English,teaches medieval literature and J. R. R.

Tolkien at Rice University, Houston, Texas. Among her seventeen books are

Tolkien’s Art: A Mythology for England , The Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power ,

and two guest-edited issues of Studies in Medievalism . She also edits two series,the

Library of Medieval Women and the Greenwood Guides to Historic Events in

the Medieval World.

Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion

and Culture

Edited by George Ferzoco, University of Leicester

and Carolyn Muessig, University of Bristol

This series aims to present developments and debates within the field of

medieval religion and culture. It will provide a broad range of case studies and

theoretical perspectives, covering a variety of topics, theories, and issues.

1 Gender and Holiness

Men, Women and Saints in Late Medieval Europe

Edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih

2 The Invention of Saintliness

Edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

3 Tolkien the Medievalist

Edited by Jane Chance

Tolkien the Medievalist

Edited by Jane Chance

First published 2003

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.

individual chapters, the contributors

or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means,

now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording,

or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in

writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Tolkien the medievalist/edited by Jane Chance

p.cm – (Routledge Studies in medieval religion and culture)

Includes bibliographic references and index.

1. Tolkien J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892–1973 – Knowledge and

learning. 2. Medievalism – England – History – 20th century. 3. Fantasy

fiction, English – Medieval influences. 4. Literature, Medieval –

Appreciation – England. 5. Middle earth (Imaginary place).

6. Medievalism in literature. 7. Middle ages in literature. 8. Mythology in

literature. I. Chance, Jane, 1945 – II. Series.

ISBN 0-203-21801-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-27362-1 (Adobe eReader Format)

(Print Edition)

ISBN 0–415–28944–0

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