Tolkien the Medievalist is an essay collection edited by Jane Chance, examining the facets of J.R.R. Tolkien's relationship with Medieval texts and studies. It was published by Routledge in September 2002.
In three years, it was followed by Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers' similar collection, Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages.
Essays[]
- Introduction by Jane Chance
PART I: J.R.R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts[]
- Douglas A. Anderson, "'An industrious little devil': E.V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien"
- Verlyn Flieger, "'There would always be a fairy-tale': J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy"
- Andrew Lazo, "A kind of mid-wife: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - sharing influence"
- Mary Falaci, "'I wish to speak": Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay"
- Christine Chism, "Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation: myth and history in World War II"
PART II: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts[]
- Verlyn Flieger, "Tolkien's Wild Men: from medieval to modern"
- Leslie A. Donovan, "The valkyrie reflex in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Éowyn, and Arwen"
- Miranda Wilcox, "Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings"
- Margaret A. Sinex, "'Oathbreakers, why have ye come?', Tolkien's Passing of the Grey Company and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum"
PART III: J.R.R. Tolkien: The texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography[]
- John William Houghton, "Augustine in the cottage of lost play: the Ainulindalë as asterisk cosmogony"
Bradford Lee Eden, "The 'music of the spheres': relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory" - Jonathan Evans, "The anthropology of Arda: creation, theology, and the race of Men"
- Michael W. Maher, "'A land without stain': medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel"
PART IV: J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology: medievalized retextualization and theory[]
- Gergely Nagy, "The great chain of reading: (inter-)textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Túrin story"
- Richard C. West, "Real-world myth in a secondary world: mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Lúthien"