Tolkien and the Gothic

<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p>