Tolkien and the Gothic

Tolkien and the Gothic
Publication Information
Editor	Will Sherwood
Publisher	Luna Press Publishing
Released	26 March 2024
Format	paperback
Pages	134
ISBN	9781915556370
Series	Peter Roe Memorial Fund
Preceded by	Translating and Illustrating Tolkien

Tolkien and the Gothic is a collection of the proceedings of the 2022 Tolkien Society seminar. The book was published in 2024 as the twenty-fourth volume in the Peter Roe Memorial Fund series.

Contents

• Introduction by Will Sherwood
• "Tolkien’s Gothic: A Poetic Resurgence?" by Mahdî Brecq
• "Beware Melkors Bearing Gifts: The ‘Tale of Adanel’ as Gothic Fiction" by Kristine Larsen
• "Eldritch Tolkien: The Impossibility of the Gothic in Middle-earth" by Nick Groom
• "(Re-)Writing the (Monstrous) Body in 20th Century Fantasy Literature: The Construction of the Stranger in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings" by Sofia Skeva
• "Tolkien’s Triptych: Ecological Uncanny, Double Dualism Personified, and the Language of the Literary Gothic" by Michael Dunn
• "The Gothic and Environmental Bioethics: The ‘Creepy’ Bodies of Middle-earth" by Journee Cotton
• " 'The forest is queer' – The Fantastic and the Gothic in The Lord of the Rings" by D.A.K. Watson

From the Publisher

This volume of proceedings contains papers from the Tolkien Society Hybrid Seminar 2022. It seeks to add to the conversation on what the words 'Goth' and 'Gothic' meant to J.R.R. Tolkien and the ways in which their various associated traditions proliferate his writing. From the linguistic to the literary, religious to the ecocritical, the proceedings explores how traditional and new theories in Gothic scholarship can help us read Tolkien's work anew.

Published under the auspices of the Society's Peter Roe Memorial Fund, this proceedings features a collection of seven papers delivered at the Tolkien Society Hybrid Seminar 2022.

External links

• Official webpage