Tolkien the Medievalist Book

	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgments
	List of abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	J. R. R. Tolkien as a medieval scholar: modern contexts	13
2	"An industrious little devil": E. V. Gordon as friend and collaborator with Tolkien	15
3	"There would always be a fairy-tale": J. R. R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy	26
4	A kind of mid-wife: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - sharing influence	36
5	"I wish to speak": Tolkien's voice in his Beowulf essay	50
6	Middle-earth, the Middle Ages, and the Aryan nation: myth and history in World War II	63
Pt. II	J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and medieval literary and mythological texts/contexts	93
7	Tolkien's Wild Men: from medieval to modern	95
8	The valkyrie reflex in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Galadriel, Shelob, Eowyn, and Arwen	106
9	Exilic imagining in The Seafarer and The Lord of the Rings	133
10	"Oathbreakers, why have ye come?": Tolkien's "Passing of the Grey Company" and the twelfth-century Exercitus mortuorum	155
Pt. III	J. R. R. Tolkien: The texts/contexts of medieval patristics, theology, and iconography	169
11	Augustine in the cottage of lost play: the Ainulindale as asterisk cosmogony	171
12	The "music of the spheres": relationships between Tolkien's The Silmarillion and medieval cosmological and religious theory	183
13	The anthropology of Arda: creation, theology, and the race of Men	194
14	"A land without stain": medieval images of Mary and their use in the characterization of Galadriel	225
Pt. IV	J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion mythology: medievalized retextualization and theory	237
15	The great chain of reading: (inter-)textual relations and the technique of mythopoesis in the Turin story	239
16	Real-world myth in a secondary world: mythological aspects in the story of Beren and Luthien	259
	References	268
	Index	285