Death and Immortality in Middle-earth
Death and Immortality in Middle-earth is a collection of the proceedings of the 29th Tolkien Society Seminar held in Leeds in 2016. The book was published by The Tolkien Society in 2017 under the auspices of the Peter Roe Memorial Fund.
Contents
- Introduction by Daniel Helen
- "Tolkien and the Somme" by Matthew B. Rose
- "Tolkien and T.S. Eliot: the waste land and a fallen king" by Tânia Azevedo
- "Tolkien and disability: the narrative function of disabled characters in Middle-earth" by Irina Metzler
- "Facing death: how characters in The Lord of the Rings meet the prospect of their own demise and the loss of others" by Giovanni Carmine Costabile
- "The elven perspective of life, death and immortality, and its influence on humanity" by Aslı Bülbül Candaş
- "Mortal immortals: the fallibility of elven immortality in Tolkien's writing" by Anna Milon
- "'Gifts in harmony?': a philological exploration of Tolkien's invented words for 'life' and 'death'" by Andrew Higgins
- "Music of life: the creation of Middle-earth" by Sarah Rose
- "Transmission: an escape from death in Tolkien's work?" by Gaëlle Abaléa
- "Recurrent pattern of the Fall in Tolkien's legendarium" by Massimiliano Izzo
- "Frodo and Saruman: euformation, dysformation, and immortality in The Lord of the Rings" by Adam B. Shaeffer
- "'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" by Dimitra Fimi
Referencias
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