Tolkien and the Classics

Tolkien and the Classics is a book examining relationships between J.R.R. Tolkien's creative writings and significant literature of classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the modern period. Edited by Roberto Arduini, Giampaolo Canzonieri, and Claudio A. Testi, it was published as the forty-second release of the Cormarë Series in 2019.
==Essays==
===Tolkien and Authors from Antiquity===
*"Giant, Solitary, and Anarchist: The Trolls in The Hobbit and Polyphemus in the Odyssey" by Gloria Larini
*Leonardo Mantovani, "Renewing the Epic: Tolkien and Apollonius Rhodius"
*Gloria Larini, "To Die for Love. Female Archetypes in Tolkien and Euripides" by
*Lavinia Scolari, "Tolkien and Virgil, Ancient Lore and Literary Inspiration"
===Tolkien and Authors from the Middle Ages===
*Valérie Morisi, "Stories of Wonders and Wanderings: The Hobbit and The Travels of Marco Polo"
*Claudio A. Testi, "Tolkien and Aquinas"
*Elisa Sicuri, "Tolkien and Malory: Writing a Mythology for England"
*Chiara Bertoglio, "Dante, Tolkien, and the Supreme Harmony"
*Tânia P. Azevedo, "Gawain vs. Gauvain: Tolkien and Chrétien de Troyes"
*Roberto Arduini, "The Innkeeper and the Miller: Common Folks in Chaucer and Tolkien"
===Tolkien and Authors from the Modern Period===
*Amelia A. Rutledge, "Tolkien and Sir Walter Scott: Critiques of the Chivalric/Heroic Imaginary"
*Luisa Paglieri, "Tolkien and Shakespeare: Debtor Against His Will"
*Sara Gianotto, "Tolkien and Alfieri: Fëanor and the Characters of Alfierian Tragedy"
*Cecilia Barella, "Tolkien and Grahame"
*Andrea Monda, "Tolkien and Manzoni"
*Melissa Ruth Arul, "The Yoke of Pride and Shame: Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim and J.R.R. Tolkien's Túrin Turambar"
*Chiara Nejrotti, "From Neverland to Middle-earth"
*Giampaolo Canzonieri, "The Hobbit and the Puppet: Two Protagonists Journeying into Opposite Directions"
*Simone Bonechi, "Tolkien and the War Poets"
*Barbara Sanguineti, "With Light Step Through the Threshold: Female characters, the Gothic, and the meditatio mortis in Tolkien and Poe"
*Tom Shippey, "William Morris and Tolkien: Some Unexpected Connections"
==External links==
*Official page
*Goodreads page
*Amazon.com
==See also==
*Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages
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Category:Secondary literature
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