IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 127: Memory in Tolkien's Medievalism, I
Monday 2 July 2018, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Cardiff Metropolitan University |
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| Organiser: | Dimitra Fimi, Department of Humanities, Cardiff Metropolitan University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Brad Eden, Christopher Center for Library & Information Resources, Valparaiso University, Indiana |
| Paper 127-a | World-Building and Memory in the Name-List to the 'Fall of Gondolin' (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 127-b | The Smith, the Weaver, and the Librarian: Sub-Creating Memory in Tolkien's Work (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 127-c | Tolkien's Typological Imagination (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | J.R.R. Tolkien's 'secondary world' unfolds in an immense depth of time.This sense of depth is inherent in The Lord of the Rings and is apparent in scenes such as the 'Council of Elrond', during which Elrond himself reminisces about events that took place thousands of years previously. What is more, it is not a literary device: Tolkien spent most of his lifetime inventing an extended mythology that detailed the history of his imaginary world over millennia, including a cosmogonic myth and a great number of interrelated legends and tales. This session will explore time in Tolkien's legendarium with an emphasis on memory. Papers can focus on topics such as the value, nature, means, or trauma of remembering and/or forgetting the past in Middle-earth, the role of memory in shaping the future, memorials and monuments, the fictitious transmission of the legendarium (via texts or orally), and remembering and forgetting as part of Tolkien's 'secondary world infrastructures' (Wolf, 2012) such as timelines, genealogies, languages, cultures, etc. |