Tolkien's Medievalism in Ruins

List of Figures

About the Contributors

Introduction
Nick Katsiadas and Carl Sell

Part One: Ruins in Tolkien's Literary Criticism

Chapter 1
'to look out upon the sea': Tolkien's Allegory of the Ruined Tower in Beowulf: The Monsters
and the Critics
Mark Doerksen

Chapter 2
Tolkien's Tower by the Sea: Ruins and the Danger of the Nostalgic Gaze
Angela Fulk

Part Two: Relics and Ruins in Arda

Chapter 3
Ruins of Past Tongues: Tolkien's Timeless Philology
K. J. Waldron

Chapter 4
'What do you Elf eyes see?' Perceiving Ruin in Middle-earth
Joseph Burton

Chapter 5
Ruins as Landscape Runes
Nancy Ciccone

Chapter 6
Ruin, Fire, Wealth, and Wergild in Tolkien's Dwarven Civilizations
Victoria Smurthwaite

Chapter 7
'Too greedily and too deep': Decadence as Ruin of Empire in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Sandra Leonard

Chapter 8
Romantic Nostalgia in Tolkien's Relics and Ruins: Longing for Aman, Gondolin, and Númenor
in The Lost Road
Nick Katsiadas

Chapter 9
The Blade of the King: Tolkien, Arthur, and the Remnants of Kingship
Carl Sell

Part Three: Relics and Ruins in Tolkien Adaptations

Chapter 10
'What Are These Towers of Silver?' Ruins as Relics in the Middle-earth Game Series
J. Seth Lee

Chapter 11
'You Wield Aiglos, spear of Gil-galad': Relics as Signposts in The Two Towers MUD
J. Emerson Lowell

Chapter 12
Marching through Mordor: Ruins and Landscape in Summoning's Minas Morgul
Dean Swinford