Reading Tolkien
Benjamin BassettLiterary criticism, scholarship and conversations about Tolkien — beyond lore, fandom and adaptation discourse
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Reading Tolkien is a publication about Tolkien as a writer: his language, literary form, influences, ideas, and the strange ways his works resist some of the categories usually used to judge modern literature. I’m especially interested in q...
The Silmarillion and the Problem of the Novel
This is a short reflection adapted from the coda to a recent Reading Tolkien episode. What sort of literary tradition does The Silmarillion actually belong to? Its compressed, elevated prose can look strange when judged by the conventions o...
Interview - DJ Taylor and The King Under the Mountain
I speak with biographer and critic D. J. Taylor about his new book, The King Under the Mountain: In Search of J. R. R. Tolkien. We discuss Tolkien’s life and literary world, the relationship between biography and Middle-earth, his politics...
Intellectual history
Dr Giuseppe Pezzini
Giuseppe Pezzini is a Tolkien scholar whose work examines the ideas, traditions, and literary thought that shaped Tolkien's imagination. His book Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation offers a major reconstructio...
Perspectives
Dr. Rev. Tom Emanuel
Tom Emanuel is a theologian, ordained minister, and Tolkien scholar specializing in the relationship between Tolkien, religion, fandom, and reader reception. His research examines how contemporary readers—including tho...
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