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Contemporary Medieval Authors, Richard C. West
Contemporary Medieval Authors, Richard C. West
Tolkien Journal
Discusses works of the “contemporary medieval” genre, a sub-genre of twentieth-century romance, including T.H. White’s Arthurian cycle, and more briefly, Lewis’s Narnia books and Space Trilogy and Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.
The Genre Of The Lord Of The Rings, Alexis Levitin
The Genre Of The Lord Of The Rings, Alexis Levitin
Tolkien Journal
Attempts to define the genre of The Lord of the Rings, an “alien but very effective piece of work” that defies easy categorization. Settles on “a quest-story presented in an epic and fairy-tale medium.”