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"Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War examines many perpectives on the impact of the First World War on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium and writing in general. It was edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Annika Röttinger, and published by Walking Tree Publishers in September 2019.
Contents[]
- Introduction by Janet Brennan Croft
- Chronology, by Annika Röttinger
The Conduct of War: Reading the Great War in Middle-earth's Wars[]
- Tom Shippey & John Bourne, "A Steep Learning Curve: Tolkien and the British Army on the Somme"
- Glenn E. Peterson, "Strategic Blunders in the First Age Great Battles: Tolkien's Commentary on World War I"
- Annika Röttinger, "The Great War in Middle-earth – or: Where to Find Modern Warfare in The Lord of the Rings"
- Tal Tovy, "Aspects of Total War in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"
Biography: The Personal Becomes Art[]
- John Rosegrant, "Fault Lines Beneath the Crack"
- Michael Flowers, "Tolkien in East Yorkshire, 1917-18: A Hemlock Glade, Two Towers, The Houses of Healing and a Beacon"
- Wilhelm Kuehs, "Two Poets at War: J.R.R. Tolkien and Ernst Jünger in the Battle of the Somme, a Semiotic Approach"
Roots of Major Themes of the Legendarium in the Great War[]
- John Garth, "Revenants and Angels: Tolkien, Machen, and Mons"
- Łukasz Neubauer, ""Worried by Silence": Some Possible Resonances of Combat-related Stress in The Lord of the Rings"
- Victoria Holtz Wodzak, "Tolkien Underground: The "Troglodyte War" in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings"
- Molly Volanth Hall, "Narrating the Missed Encounter with the Loss of a World: The Lord of the Rings' Testimony to Modern Ecology"
- Anna Smol, "Bodies in War: Medieval and Modern Tensions in "The Homecoming""
Alterity: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in War[]
- Lynn Schlesinger, "Angels of Care and Houses of Healing in World War I: Their Possible Influence on Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
- Felicity Gilbert, "Mighty Men of War: The Impact of Gender and War in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien"
- Alicia Fox-Lenz, "Contemporary Reflections of War: Soldier-Servant Relationships in The Lord of the Rings and Downton Abbey"
- Giovanni Costabile, "'No Englander May Hinder Me': Éowyn the Highland Pipe Major and Other Highlights of Tolkien's Awareness of Sexual, Class and Ethnic Divisions in Wartime"
External links[]
Works by Janet Brennan Croft
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"Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War with Annika Röttinger
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