Anna Milon 
Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens 
Peter Roe Series XIX

This volume of proceedings contains papers from the largest and, perhaps, most diverse Tolkien Society Seminar to date.Following a much-contested Call for Papers, ‘Tolkien the Pagan? Reading Middle-earth through a Spiritual Lens’ explores Tolkien’s complex use of religious ideology, the readers’ approach to their beloved fictional world via unusual spiritual and philosophical channels, and how Middle-earth almost became a faith unto itself.

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Introduction by Editor Anna Milon’On the Providential Historicism of Middle-earth’ by Ryan Haecker ‘The Nature of Arda: An Artwork as the Embodiment of the Flame Imperishable’ by Aslı Bülbül Candaş’Honouring the Valar, Seeking the Elf Within: The Curious History of Tolkien Spirituality and the Religious Affordance of Tolkien’s Literary Mythology’ by Markus Altena Davidsen’Tolkien’s Mandos, Pratchett’s Death’ by Justin Lewis-Anthony’Also Sprach Fëanor, Spirit of Fire: A Nietzschean Reading of Tolkien’s Mythology?’ by Giovanni Carmine Costabile