IMC 2024: Sessions
Session 338: Tolkien's Medieval Sub-Creation in Crisis
Monday 1 July 2024, 16:30-18:00
| Sponsor: | Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow |
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| Organiser: | Andrew Higgins, Centre for Fantasy & the Fantastic, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow |
| Moderator/Chair: | Sara Brown, Department of Language & Literature, Signum University, New Hampshire |
| Paper 338-a | A Medievalist Myth-Making Crisis: Tolkien's Tychonic Cosmology (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 338-b | 'Bree-folk were sympathetic, but…': Historical Precursors to Middle-Earth's Migration Crisis at the End of the Third Age (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Paper 338-c | The Crisis of Arda Marred and How (Not) to Unmar It: The Ring, the Tongue, and the Tower as the New Wheel of Fortune, the New Tower of Babel, and the New World Tree (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other and Medievalism and Antiquarianism |
| Abstract | This session will examine different concepts of crisis in Tolkien studies. Papers may explore the types of crises Tolkien himself created in the body of his legendarium by his revising of several keys stories and legends at different times in his lifelong work. Papers can address the significance of these narratives and their revisions in Tolkien’s shifting ideas about the world and cultures he was inventing. Papers may also explore adaptations of Tolkien works and how they create crises in our evolving understanding of the canon of Tolkien’s work and its reception. |