TY  - JOUR
A1  - Chinn, Christopher
A1  - Thompson, Phoebe
A2  - Ambühl, Annemarie
A2  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
A2  - Rollinger, Christian
A2  - Walde, Christine
T1  - Tolkien’s Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean
T2  - thersites 15
N2  - This paper examines the intertext between Tolkien’s Ithilien episode in Two Towers and artistic presentations of plants in the art and literature of Augustan Rome. We argue that the evident ‘superbloom’ depicted in the ekphrasis of the flora of Ithilien recalls both Vergilian botanical adynata (especially in the Georgics) and Roman wall paintings of the Augustan period.
KW  - Tolkien
KW  - Vergil
KW  - ecocriticism
KW  - Ithilien
KW  - flora
Y1  - 2022
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56539
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 15
SP  - 163
EP  - 203
ER  -