Łukasz Neubauer, Ph.D. is a Polish Tolkien scholar whose work has appeared in the Cormarë Series and other publications. He teaches on J.R.R. Tolkien's work and Old English and Arthurian literature at the University of Koszalin in Koszalin, Poland. He had received his doctorate in philology, which had been the prevailing passion of Tolkien.
He has published more than three studies on Tolkien's The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, and has engaged highly with Beowulf. He was the editor of the essay collection Middle-earth, or There and Back Again (2020).
Articles & essays[]
- "'He has gone to God glory seeking': Tolkien's Critique of the Northern Courage and Rejection of the Traditional Heroic Ethos in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" in O What a Tangled Web: Tolkien and Medieval Literature: A View from Poland (Cormarë Series no. 29) (2013)
- "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth as a Dialectic Attempt to Capture the Essence of the 'Northern Heroic Spirit'" in Lembas Extra 2016
- "Plain Ignorance in the Vulgar Form: Tolkien's Onomastic Humour in Farmer Giles of Ham" in Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of JRR Tolkien (Cormarë Series no. 35)
- "Behind the Names of Torhthelm and Tídwald: Tolkien's Onomastic Imagination in The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" in Hither Shore, vol. 13 (2016)
- "Absence of gods vs. Absence of God: The Spiritual Landscapes of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and George R.R. Martin's Westeros" in Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies (Cormarë Series vol. 40) (2019)
- "'Worried by Silence': Some Possible Resonances of Combat-related Stress in The Lord of the Rings" in "Something Has Gone Crack": New Perspectives on J.R.R. Tolkien in the Great War (2019)
- "This local family game played in the country just round us: Some Remarks Concerning the Genesis of Farmer Giles of Ham" in Lembas Extra 2019: The World Tolkien Built
- "'What news from the North?': The Compositional Fabric, Intricate Imagery and Heroic Christian Character of the 'Lament for Boromir'" in Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond (Cormarë Series no. 39) (2019)
- "'You cannot pass': Tolkien's Christian Reinterpretation of the Traditional Germanic Ideals of Heroism and Loyalty in The Lord of the Rings" in Middle-earth, or There and Back Again (Cormarë Series no. 44) (2020)
- "'The Eagles are coming!': A pneumatological reinterpretation of the Old Germanic 'beasts of battle'" in Journal of Inklings Studies, vol. 11 (2021)
- "Less Consciously at First but More Consciously in the Revision: Plato's Ring of Gyges as a Putative Source of Inspiration for Tolkien's Ring of Power" in Tolkien and the Classical World (Cormarë Series no. 45) (2021)
- "A Biblical gloss to the witnesses of Manwë" in Lembas Extra 2022: Númenor
- Review of Peter Grybauskas' A Sense of Tales of Untold in Journal of Inklings Studies (2022)
External links[]
- Academia page
- Łukasz Neubauer at Tolkienists.org
See also[]