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Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages is a book by Holly Ordway, published by Word on Fire Academic on January 25, 2021.
Ordway asserts in the book that, contrary to popular notion, J.R.R. Tolkien was versed in modern literature and his Middle-earth legendarium did not lack contemporary influences. Authors discussed include Rider Haggard, George MacDonald, William Morris, David Lindsay, and J.H. Shorthouse. The book finishes with a table index of all literature that Tolkien is known to have possessed.
In 2022, Tolkien's Modern Reading won the Mythopoeic Society's Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies.[1]
- "Tolkien’s Modern Reading not only enables a clearer understanding of Tolkien’s epic, it also illuminates his views on topics such as technology, women, empire, and race. For Tolkien’s genius was not simply backward-looking: it was intimately connected with the literature of his own time and concerned with the issues and crises of modernity. Ordway’s ground-breaking study reveals that Tolkien brought to the workings of his fantastic imagination a deep knowledge of both the facts and the fictions of the modern world."
- —The publisher
External links[]
- Official page at author's website
- Publisher page
- Review by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
- Goodreads
- Amazon.com
See also[]
- J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
- Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Sources of Inspiration (Cormarë Series)
- Tolkien and the Study of His Sources
- Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography
- Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist