TY  - JOUR
A1  - Chinn, Christopher
A1  - Thompson, Phoebe
ED  - Ambühl, Annemarie
ED  - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo
ED  - Rollinger, Christian
ED  - Walde, Christine
T1  - Tolkien’s Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean
JF  - 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
U6  - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.211
SN  - 2364-7612
VL  - 2022
IS  - 15
SP  - 163
EP  - 203
ER  -