Academic Writings

Abstract

Most of Tolkien's academic lectures and essays have, with a few exceptions, for a long time suffered the fate of neglect and oblivion among their primary audiences – not least since some of them were published decades after he had delivered them orally. Thus the greater number of Tolkien's lectures gained in importance only due to a shift away from reading them in their original context towards applying their ideas to “Tolkien the author.” As a consequence, his essays on medieval literature, fairy-stories or philology have become increasingly inter- and meta-texts for the interpretation of Tolkien's works of fiction and thus gained a new lease of life.

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