Gergely Nagy is a Hungarian

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and a well-known

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Biography

Gergely Nagy was born in

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. Nagy gained his PhD at the

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, where he teaches on

Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson ...

and

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. Nagy has written numerous papers of Tolkien criticism. He contributed nine entries to the 2006 '' J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia'', and a chapter on ''

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'' to the 2014 '' A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien''. Nagy was the keynote speaker for the 19th annual Tolkien conference at the

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in 2023. He has been described as an "especially well-known figure" in Tolkien scholarship who had made an "excellent contribution" to the book ''Sub-creating Arda. World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work'' with his "usual skill and insight".

Works

Nagy's many articles of Tolkien scholarship include: * 2002
The Great Chain of Reading: (Inter)Textual Relations and the Technique of Mythopoesis in the Túrin Story
, In:

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(ed) ''Tolkien the Medievalist''. London:

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, pp. 239-258. * 2004
The Adapted Text: The Lost Poetry of Beleriand
, ''

Tolkien Studies The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have generated a body of research covering many aspects of his High fantasy, fantasy writings. These encompass ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion'', along with Tolkien's legendarium, his legendarium t ...

'' 1: pp. 21-41. * 2004 "Saving the Myths: the Recreation of Mythology in Plato and Tolkien", In:

(ed) ''

Tolkien and the Invention of Myth ''Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader'' is a 2004 collection of scholarly essays on J. R. R. Tolkien's writings on Middle-earth, edited by Jane Chance. It has been warmly welcomed by critics, though some of the student contributions are ...

: A Reader''.

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, 2004. pp. 81-100. * 2005 "The Medievalist's Fiction: Textuality and Historicity as Aspects of Tolkien’s Medievalist Cultural Theory in a Postmodernist Context", In:

, Alfred K. Siewers (ed) ''Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages''. New York:

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, New-York, pp. 29-41. * 2006 nine essays in '' The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia'', including '

Gollum Gollum is a Tolkien's monsters, monster with a distinctive style of speech in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world of Middle-earth. He was introduced in the 1937 Fantasy (genre), fantasy novel ''The Hobbit'', and became important in its sequel, ' ...

', 'Fictionality', 'Plato', and '

'. * 2006
The 'Lost' Subject of Middle-earth. Elements and Motifs of the Constitution of the Subject in the Figure of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings
, ''

'' 3: pp. 57-79. * 2013 "A Body of Myth: Representing Sauron in The Lord of the Rings", In: Christopher Vaccaro (ed) ''The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality''. Jefferson, North Carolina:

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, pp. 119-130. * 2014
The Silmarillion: Tolkien's Theory of Myth, Text, and Culture
, in Stuart D. Lee (ed) '' A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien'',

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References

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