The dark, malodorous wetland called the Dead Marshes ranks among the most memorable and enigmatic landscapes in fantasy literature. While one influential line of scholarship connects the passage to Tolkien’s experiences in the Great War, this article argues that the Marshes should also be read as a reception of Tacitus’s depiction of the Teutoburg Forest. The link between the two texts is both simple and complex. Tolkien read Tacitus, and the latter’s influence has been detected elsewhere in The Lord of the Rings; yet Tolkien identified William Morris as an even more important source for the Marshes than the Great War, and the relevant passage in Morris is also a reception of Tacitus. It will be shown that Tolkien comes closer to Tacitus th...
The Lord of the Rings, though unique in many ways, is only one of a series of fantasies published by...
As a scholar, Tolkien spent a great deal of time working from manuscripts. Likewise, as a storytelle...
J.R.R. Tolkien’s pioneering work of fantasy fiction, The Lord of the Rings, was written in a period ...
The dark, malodorous wetland called the Dead Marshes ranks among the most memorable and enigmatic la...
Describes the Battle of the Somme and Tolkien’s participation in it. Pointing out the parallels betw...
World War I devastated a generation of men and women with its technologies of mass destruction and i...
There is no doubt that Norman stories and myths were an important inspiration for John R. R. Tolkien...
This article deals with literary war landscapes in ancient Rome. I investigate how Roman authors dep...
This article deals with literary war landscapes in ancient Rome. I investigate how Roman authors dep...
Following the Great War (1914–1918), J.R.R. Tolkien edited the poetry collection A Spring Harvest (1...
Discusses the impact of World War II on the themes and style of The Lord of the Rings, and particula...
The contemporary fantasy assigning to the medieval marsh the image of a wild and deadly space as bei...
Much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, is taken up with the natural world, paying significa...
Landscape can spark armed conflict, dictate its progress and condition the affective experience of i...
To devotees of Tolkien, the trench fever that led to his repatriation from the Western Front in Nove...
The Lord of the Rings, though unique in many ways, is only one of a series of fantasies published by...
As a scholar, Tolkien spent a great deal of time working from manuscripts. Likewise, as a storytelle...
J.R.R. Tolkien’s pioneering work of fantasy fiction, The Lord of the Rings, was written in a period ...
The dark, malodorous wetland called the Dead Marshes ranks among the most memorable and enigmatic la...
Describes the Battle of the Somme and Tolkien’s participation in it. Pointing out the parallels betw...
World War I devastated a generation of men and women with its technologies of mass destruction and i...
There is no doubt that Norman stories and myths were an important inspiration for John R. R. Tolkien...
This article deals with literary war landscapes in ancient Rome. I investigate how Roman authors dep...
This article deals with literary war landscapes in ancient Rome. I investigate how Roman authors dep...
Following the Great War (1914–1918), J.R.R. Tolkien edited the poetry collection A Spring Harvest (1...
Discusses the impact of World War II on the themes and style of The Lord of the Rings, and particula...
The contemporary fantasy assigning to the medieval marsh the image of a wild and deadly space as bei...
Much of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, is taken up with the natural world, paying significa...
Landscape can spark armed conflict, dictate its progress and condition the affective experience of i...
To devotees of Tolkien, the trench fever that led to his repatriation from the Western Front in Nove...
The Lord of the Rings, though unique in many ways, is only one of a series of fantasies published by...
As a scholar, Tolkien spent a great deal of time working from manuscripts. Likewise, as a storytelle...
J.R.R. Tolkien’s pioneering work of fantasy fiction, The Lord of the Rings, was written in a period ...