Tolkien Among the Moderns

Tolkien Among the Moderns proposes that J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth novels hold answers to predominant modern questions, and were written with a moral and religious vision. Compiled by Ralph C. Wood, it was published in 2015 by University of Notre Dame Press.
Other writers and thinkers are discussed in relation to Tolkien such as Cervantes, Nietzsche, Iris Murdoch, James Joyce, and Emmanuel Levinas.
==Contents==
*Germaine Paulo Walsh, "Philosophic Poet: J.R.R. Tolkien's Modern Response to an Ancient Quarrel"
*Helen Lasseter Freeh, "On Fate, Providence, and Free Will in The Silmarillion"
*Michael D. Thomas, "Unlikely Knights, Improbable Heroes: Inverse, Antimodernist Paradigms in Tolkien and Cervantes"
*Peter M. Candler, Jr., "Tolkien or Nietzsche: Philology and Nihilism"
*Philip J. Donnelly, "A Portrait of the Poet as an Old Hobbit: Engaging Modernist Aesthetic Ontology in The Fellowship of the Ring"
*Dominic Manganiello, "Pouring New Win into Old Bottles: Tolkien, Joyce, and the Modern Epic"
*Scott H. Moore, "The Consolations of Fantasy: J.R.R. Tolkien and Iris Murdoch"
*Joseph Tradie, ""That the World Not Be Usurped": Emmanuel Levinas and J.R.R. Tolkien on Serving the Other as release from Bondage"
*Ralph C. Wood, "Tolkien and Postmodernism"
==External links==
*Goodreads page
*Bookshop.org
*Barnes & Noble
*JSTOR page
*Review by Robin Anne Reid for the Journal of Tolkien Research
==See also==
*Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages
*Tolkien in the Twenty-first Century
*Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien: Myth and Modernity
*The Inklings, the Victorians, and the Moderns
*Tolkien's Modern Reading
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