TY - JOUR A1 - Matz, Alicia A1 - Paprocki, Maciej A1 - Cristini, Marco A1 - Pezzini, Giuseppe A1 - Capra, Elena Sofia A1 - Kambo, Kevin A1 - Oughton, Charles W. A1 - Chinn, Christopher A1 - Thompson, Phoebe A1 - Praet, Raf A1 - Stutz, Kathryn H. A1 - Keen, Tony A1 - Beck, Christian ED - Ambühl, Annemarie ED - Carlà-Uhink, Filippo ED - Rollinger, Christian ED - Walde, Christine T1 - There and Back Again: Tolkien and the Greco-Roman World T2 - thersites Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.34679/thersites.vol15 SN - 2364-7612 VL - 2022 IS - 15 ER - 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 -