Tolkien’s Ithilien and the Landscape of the Ancient Mediterranean
- 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.
| Author details: | Christopher ChinnORCiDGND, Phoebe Thompson |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15.211 |
| ISSN: | 2364-7612 |
| Title of parent work (English): | thersites 15 |
| Editor(s): | Annemarie Ambühl, Filippo Carlà-Uhink, Christian Rollinger, Christine Walde |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2022/10/27 |
| Publication year: | 2022 |
| Publishing institution: | Universität Potsdam |
| Release date: | 2022/11/01 |
| Tag: | Ithilien; Tolkien; Vergil; ecocriticism; flora |
| Volume: | 2022 |
| Issue: | 15 |
| Number of pages: | 41 |
| First page: | 163 |
| Last Page: | 203 |
| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Historisches Institut |
| DDC classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| Collection(s): | Universität Potsdam / Zeitschriften / thersites, ISSN 2364-7612 / thersites Vol. 15 |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
