Gergely Nagy

Gergely Nagy (born 1969) is an Hungarian Tolkien scholar, one of the founding members of the Hungarian Tolkien Society and a teacher on Plato and J.R.R. Tolkien at the University of Szeged. He has contributed essays to Tolkien scholarship and written numerous reviews of Tolkien studies literature.

He was keynote speaker of the 2023 Tolkien in Vermont conference held at University of Vermont.^[1]

Articles & essays[]

"The great chain of reading: (inter-)textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Túrin story" in Jane Chance's collection Tolkien the Medievalist (2003)
"Saving the Myths: The Re-creation of Mythology in Plato and Tolkien" in Jane Chance's Tolkien and the Invention of Myth (2004)
"The Adapted Text, The Lost Poetry of Beleriand" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 1 (2004)
"The Medievalist's Fiction" in Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages (2005)
"The 'Lost' Subject of Middle-earth: The Constitution of the Subject in the Figure of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 3 (2006)
Nine entries, including of Gollum, in Michael D. C. Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (2006)
"A Body of Myth: Representing Sauron in The Lord of the Rings" in Christopher Vaccaro's The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality (2013)
"The Silmarillion: Tolkien's Theory of Myth, Text, and Culture" in Stuart D. Lee's A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien (2014)
"On No Magic in Tolkien: Resisting the Representational Criteria of Realism" in Thomas Honegger and Dimitra Fimi's Sub-creating Arda (Cormarë Series No. 40)