Tolkien & Medieval Tradition (ENGL 4316/MALA 5346)
 Resources--Handouts, Lectures, and Suggested Weblinks

Introductory Online Resources

Chronological Bibliography of Works about Tolkien

Bibliography of Scholarly Studies of Tolkien (Through 2000)

Tolkien Bibliography (Through 2001)

Tolkien: Mythos and Modernity in Middle-Earth (The Chesterton Review)

Tolkien's Essays

Tolkien and the Folklore Debate

Outline of "The Monsters & the Critics"

Key Ideas of "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"

General Handouts on Tolkien

Tolkien's Essays and Letters on Elvish and Human Death and Reincarnation

A Tolkien Reading Plan

Some "Certainties" in Tolkien & Tolkien Studies

Beowulf

The Historical Elements in Beowulf

Structure in Beowulf

Tolkien on Translating Beowulf

Comparative Translation Example (website)

Interlinear Translation of Beowulf (website)

Old English & Old Norse Texts

Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon Sense and Sensibility

Tolkien's "Northernness": Tolkien the Kolbítar

Kalevala

Middle English Texts

Middle English Text of Sir Gawain (ed. Tolkien and Gordon)

Other Translations of Sir Gawain

Pearl-Poet Web sources

Introduction to Pearl (website at TEAMS)

Pearl Overview & Discussion Questions

Introduction to Sir Orfeo (website at TEAMS)

Sir Orfeo, Orpheus, Odysseus, and Faërie

Leaf by Niggle

The Silmarillion

Myth Outlines and Discussion Questions for The Silmarillion, Beginnings and First Age

The Wars of Beleriand

The Celestial Hierarchy of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

The Second Age & Beginnings of The Third Age

Atlantis, the Antediluvian World (1882), Ignatius Donnelly [e-text]

Tolkien & the Atlantis Myth

"Aldarion and Erendis" & Tolkien's Views of the Sacrament of Marriage

The Hobbit

The Northernness of The Hobbit and its Structure

Hobbit Illustrations Worldwide

The Saga of Hervör and Heithrek (Section XI. is one of the strong sources for the riddle game.)

Victorian/Edwardian Influences 

King Solomon's Mines & She (H. Rider Haggard)

The Black Douglas

Review of The Marvelous Land of Snergs

Lewis Carroll Society Website

Kenneth Grahame Texts

E. Nesbit Stories 

George MacDonald E-list 

Farmer Giles of Ham

The Nature of Humor

Characteristics of Tragedy and Comedy

The Lord of the Rings

Marian Devotion & The Courtly Tradition in Elbereth & Galadriel

Medieval Motifs in Books 3 and 4 

The Return of the King: Emotional Monarchy in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Theological Patterns & Themes in The Lord of the Rings