‘Morning Stars of a Setting World’: Alain de Lille’s \u3ci\u3eDe Planctu Naturæ\u3c/i\u3e and Tolkien’s Legendarium as Neo-Platonic Mythopoeia.

Examines a possible source of the imagery associated with Tolkien’s representations of divine and queenly women in Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturæ, or Complaint of Nature. De Lille was a 12th century theologian and poet associated with the Chartres school, and an influence on Chaucer