Introduction: ’The Romantic Spirit in the Works of . Tolkien’

’The Romantic Spirit in the Works of . Tolkien’ (2023), edited by Will Sherwood and Julian Eilmann. Originally presented at the Tolkien Society’s Oxonmoot (2023), this is the introduction to the book, providing scholarly background to why the book is needed and how it can help cultivate new discussions of Romantic Tolkien. My article ’Tolkien and the Age of Forgery’ (2020) in the Journal of Tolkien Research: