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21st January 2019: Call for papers Tolkien and the Classical World
Scholarship on J.R.R. Tolkien has become more and more interested in the topic of worldbuilding in the literature of the English fantasy novelist and academic. Critical explorations into how Tolkien constructed his worlds have covered various domains: the early Germanic, the medieval (more broadly), the modern, the natural, and the Christian world. What has not received more comprehensive exploration, however, is how the Classical world of Ancient Greece and Rome influenced the literature, scholarship, and thoughts of Tolkien. Given Tolkien's early schooling in and love of Latin and Ancient Greek language and literature, is it possible to reconstruct a Classical worldbuilding in Tolkien's works? (read more here).
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