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Tolkien and the Classical World is a collection of essays examining possible influences of Roman, Greek, and early Germanic mythology or culture on J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. As the forty-fifth book of the Cormarë Series, it was released at the start of 2021 and edited by Hamish Williams.
Essays[]
- Introduction by Hamish Williams, "Classical Tradition, Modern Fantasy, and the Generic Contracts of Readers"
- I: Classical Lives and Histories
- Hamish Williams, "Tolkien the Classicist: Scholar and Thinker"
- Ross Clare, "Greek and Roman Historiographies in Tolkien's Númenor"
- II: Ancient Epic and Myth
- Giuseppe Pezzini, "The Gods in Tolkien's Epic: Classical Patterns of Divine Interaction"
- Benjamin Eldon Stevens, "Middle-earth as Underworld: From Katabasis to Eucatastrophe"
- Austin M. Freeman, "Pietas and the Fall of the City: A Neglected Virgilian Influence on Middle-earth's Chief Virtue"
- Peter Astrup Sundt, "The Love Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Tolkien's Orphic Middle-earth"
- III: In Dialogue with the Greek Philosophers
- Michael Kleu, "Plato's Atlantis and the Post-Platonic Tradition in Tolkien's Downfall of Númenor"
- Łukasz Neubauer, "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"
- Julian Eilmann, "Horror and Fury: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Children of Húrin and the Aristotelian Theory of Tragedy"
- IV: Around the Borders of the Classical World
- Philip Burton, "'Eastwards and Southwards': Philological and Historical Perspectives on Tolkien and Classicism"
- Richard Z. Gallant, "The Noldorization of the Edain: The Roman-Germani Paradigm for the Noldor and Edain in Tolkien's Migration Era"
- Juliette Harrisson, "'Escape and Consolation': Gondor as the Ancient Mediterranean and Rohan as the Germanic World in The Lord of the Rings"
- V: Shorter Remarks and Observations
- Alley Marie Jordan, "Shepherds and the Shire: Classical Pastoralism in Middle-earth"
- Oleksandra Filonenko and Vitalii Shchepanskyi, "Classical Influences on the Role of Music in Tolkien's Legendarium"
- Afterword by Graham J. Shipley, "Tolkien's Response to Classics in Its Wider Context"