Release Date 26 March 2024
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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.
 
Contents
 
Introduction
Will Sherwood 
 
Tolkien’s Gothic: A Poetic Resurgence?
Mahdî Brecq 
 
Beware Melkors Bearing Gifts: The ‘Tale of Adanel’ as Gothic Fiction
Kristine Larsen 
 
Eldritch Tolkien: The Impossibility of the Gothic in Middle-earth
Nick Groom (Keynote) 
 
(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
Sofia Skeva 
 
Tolkien’s Triptych: Ecological Uncanny, Double Dualism Personified, and
the Language of the Literary Gothic
Michael Dunn 
 
The Gothic and Environmental Bioethics: The ‘Creepy’ Bodies of Middleearth
Journee Cotton 
 
“The forest is queer” - The Fantastic and the Gothic in The Lord of the Rings
D.A.K. Watson