The Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien's Art: Geritol for the Classics

by Robert E. Morse

In his Preface, Robert Morse states that both Vergil and Tolkien present myth as an aspect of an historical continuum. For these authors, myth does not seem to represent a falsehood, but rather it seems to narrate a record of experience from which humanity learns. Thus, myth is...a form of memory. In Evocation of Vergil in Tolkien's Art, Robert Morse asks the does this syncretism of myth and history serve a similar purpose in each author? Includes an index of proper names from both authors' works, an index of passages, and a selected bibliography Also The Meaning of In Search of an Ancient Icon - ISBN 0865165106
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66 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Gergely]

Really appallingly written and edited.

[Seth Tomko]

My video review of The Evocation of Virgil in Tolkien's Art can be found here: https://youtu.be/yNZOvqHPaAo?si=O6smd...

[Dylan]

This was surprisingly a kind of tame and unbased take on the Virgilian quality of Tolkien's works. It was remarkably fine, but I can't remember any interesting takeaways from it.

[Colin]

An interesting book - though barely a book, really more of a pamphlet - following some of the themes and motifs in Tolkien that are directly or indirectly derived from Vergil, particularly the Aeneid. It is a promising theme for a book, and a sadly underdeveloped one. It seems to me that this booklet could have been expanded into a weighty tome, had the author cared to fully explore the implications of his own ideas. Sadly, a bit disappointing . . .

[Stephen Dutton]

I'm not an intellectual and thankfully this book was extremely short but I did find it interesting and makes me wonder if someday I should read The Aeneid. This author points out the many parallels to that book and the Lord of the rings - I guess this is how we know Tolkien did study the classics and by the classics we mean The Aeneid for starters.

Like I said I'm no scholar I had to get out my dictionary and look up Aeneid because I couldn't even remotely guess how to pronounce it!