Elfland Revisited: A Comparative Study of Late Twentieth Century Adaptations of Two Traditional Ballads
Elfland Revisited: A Comparative Study of Late Twentieth Century Adaptations of Two Traditional Ballads Giebert, Stefanie PhD Dissertation, Philosophy, University of Trier, (2009) Abstract Once upon a…
New book examines the influence of medieval Welsh on Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote: “I love Wales…and especially the Welsh language”. Now, a Cardiff University academic has explored Wales’ influence on Tolkien in…
The Keys of Middle-Earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
The Keys of Middle-Earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien Palgrave Macmillan: February 26, 2006 ISBN – 9781403946713 The Keys…
Sir Orfeo: A Middle English Version By J.R.R. Tolkien
The article presents an edition of Sir Orfeo, first published by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1944. Sir Orfeo was a Middle English poem, first written in the late-thirteenth or early-fourteenth century.
The Middle Ages as Fantasy
Discusses the famous writers J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and the influence of medievalism on their storytelling.