Tolkien the Medievalist

Interdisciplinary in approach <em>Tolkien the Medievalist</em> provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught and by his own medieval mythologizing.