O What a Tangled Web

O What a Tangled Web: Tolkien and Medieval Literature: A View from Poland is a collection of essays examining J.R.R. Tolkien's works with respect to medieval literature. It was published as No. 29 in the Cormarë Series.

Contents
  • Introduction: Tolkien in Poland - A Medievalist Liaison
  • — By: Barbara Kowalik
  • "O, what a tangled web we weave": The Lord of the Rings and the Interlacement Technique
  • — By: Joanna Kokot
  • Orality and Literacy in Middle-earth
  • — By: Bartłomiej Błaszkiewicz
  • Rohan and the Social Codes of Heroic Epic and Chivalric Romance
  • — By: Justyna Brzezińska
  • Tolkien's Queen Women in The Lord of the Rings
  • — By: Maria Błaszkiewicz
  • Elbereth the Star-Queen Seen in the Light of Medieval Marian Devotion
  • — By: Barbara Kowalik
  • The Fallen: Milton's Satan and Tolkien's Melkor
  • — By: Katarzyna Blacharska
  • Berserkir, Bödvar Bjarki and the Dragon Fáfnir: The Influence of Selected Medieval Icelandic Sagas on Tolkien's Works for Children
  • — By: Renata Leśniakiewicz-Drzymała
  • 'He has gone to God glory seeking': Tolkien's Critique of the Northern Courage and Rejection of the Traditional Heroic Ethos in "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son"
  • — By: Łukasz Neubauer
  • What Exactly Does Tolkien Argue for in "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics?" An Attempt at a Metacriticism
  • — By: Andrzej Wicher
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