Gergely Nagy (scholar)

Gergely Nagy is a Hungarian medievalist and a well-known Tolkien scholar.

Biography

Gergely Nagy was born in Szeged, Hungary. Nagy gained his PhD at the University of Szeged, where he teaches on Tolkien and Plato.^[1]

Nagy has written numerous papers of Tolkien criticism. He contributed nine entries to the 2006 J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia,^[2] and a chapter on The Silmarillion to the 2014 A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien.^[3] Nagy was the keynote speaker for the 19th annual Tolkien conference at the University of Vermont in 2023.^[4] 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".^[5]

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: Jane Chance (ed) Tolkien the Medievalist. London: Routledge, pp. 239-258.
• 2004 "The Adapted Text: The Lost Poetry of Beleriand", Tolkien Studies 1: pp. 21-41.
• 2004 "Saving the Myths: the Recreation of Mythology in Plato and Tolkien", In: Jane Chance (ed) Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader. University Press of Kentucky, 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: Jane Chance, Alfred K. Siewers (ed) Tolkien's Modern Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, New-York, pp. 29-41.
• 2006 nine essays in The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, including 'Gollum', 'Fictionality', 'Plato', and 'The Silmarillion'.
• 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", Tolkien Studies 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: McFarland & Company, 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, John Wiley & Sons.