‘Morning Stars of a Setting World’: Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturæ and Tolkien’s Legendarium as Neo-Platonic Mythopoeia.

Authors

Christopher Vaccaro, University of Vermont

Abstract

Examines a possible source of the imagery associated with Tolkien’s representations of divine and queenly women in Alain de Lille’s De Planctu Naturæ, or Complaint of Nature. De Lille was a 12^th century theologian and poet associated with the Chartres school, and an influence on Chaucer.

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