Luna Press, 2018. 1e druk. Pocket. Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2017.
J.R.R. Tolkien regarded himself ‘chiefly as a poet’ (Carpenter, The Inklings, p. 29)
and the importance of poetic diction and its most potent form, song, provides a
powerful leitmotif to his mythological universe. Following the publication of
Tolkien’s two verse works: The Lay of Atrou and Itroun (2016) and Beren and Luthien
(2017), the Tolkien Society called for papers re-examining the importance of
poetry and song in Tolkien’s writing. A series of presentations both on the
author’s poems and on verse incorporated into his worldbuilding were given in
Leeds on the 2nd of July 2017.
