{"id":36603,"date":"2021-10-18T15:26:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jrrtestate.wpengine.com\/escribir\/simonson-studies-in-spanish-on-the-works-of-j-r-r-tolkien\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T15:31:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T15:31:10","slug":"simonson-estudios-en-espanol-sobre-las-obras-de-j-r-r-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/es\/escribir\/simonson-estudios-en-espanol-sobre-las-obras-de-j-r-r-tolkien\/","title":{"rendered":"Simonson &#8211; Estudios en espa\u00f1ol sobre las obras de J.R.R. 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Not all works are mentioned; the focus falls on the most influential studies and other types of academic research which have contributed in important ways to a greater understanding of Tolkien\u2019s work. In parallel to this, the sequence of publications of the Spanish translations of Tolkien\u2019s most important works are highlighted for context, as are the studies translated from English that have had the greatest impact on the research carried out in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\u00bb1&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.16&#8243; _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_row _builder_version=\u00bb4.16&#8243; locked=\u00bboff\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_column type=\u00bb4_4&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.16&#8243; global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_text quote_border_weight=\u00bb4px\u00bb quote_border_color=\u00bb#9f8d60&#8243; _builder_version=\u00bb4.16&#8243; text_line_height=\u00bb1.9em\u00bb quote_font=\u00bb||on||||||\u00bb header_font=\u00bb||||||||\u00bb header_text_color=\u00bb#000000&#8243; header_3_font=\u00bbPT Serif|700|||||||\u00bb header_3_text_color=\u00bb#000000&#8243; width=\u00bb66%\u00bb width_tablet=\u00bb100%\u00bb width_phone=\u00bb\u00bb width_last_edited=\u00bbon|tablet\u00bb module_alignment=\u00bbcenter\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from the first, polemic 1964 translation of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hobbit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Teresa S\u00e1nchez, the first book by J.R.R. Tolkien to be translated into Spanish was <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was published between 1977 and 1980. This is not only Tolkien\u2019s most widely read work in Spanish, but also the one which is most often studied by Tolkien scholars in this language. One of the very first qualified comments on the book appeared as early as 1976, when the well-known writer and philosopher Fernando Savater authored a collection of essays on the impact of the literature he read in his youth. The book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La infancia recuperada<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (published in English translation in 1982 as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Childhood Regained: The Art of the Storyteller<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), Savater devotes a perceptive chapter to Tolkien, in which he highlights, among other things, the moral dimension of the natural world of Middle-earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 1980s saw the publication of two general studies on Tolkien and his works: on the one hand, Julio C\u00e9sar Santoyo and Jos\u00e9 Miguel Santamar\u00eda\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1983), and, on the other, Jos\u00e9 Miguel Odero\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.R.R. Tolkien. Cuentos de hadas<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1987). Santoyo and Santamar\u00eda were based at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria, while Odero lectured at the University of Navarra in Pamplona (both in the northern part of the country). These authors had a certain impact on the future of Tolkien scholarship in Spain, not the least since they went on to supervise MA and PhD dissertations on Tolkien written by scholars of the next generation, and to translate some of Tolkien\u2019s works. Following these first studies, in 1994 \u2013 well after the publication of the translation of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hobbit <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1982), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Silmarillion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1984), and the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Appendices<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1987) \u2013 Santoyo and Santamar\u00eda translated a collection of Tolkien\u2019s most important short works, including the landmark essay \u2018On Fairy-stories\u2019, under the title <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c1rbol y Hoja<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1991 saw the foundation of the Spanish Tolkien Society, which contributed with publications on Tolkien and his works in Spanish through the society\u2019s offical fanzine, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in the coming years. Several selections of the articles published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Estel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the 1990s were later gathered in another journal run by the Society, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nolm\u00eb<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, under the main editorship of Helios de Rosario and Ricard Valdivieso. Four issues of the latter publication were published between 2007-2010, one of which (issue 2) was also translated into English. The Spanish Tolkien Society also organizes an annual essay contest called \u2018Aelfwine\u2019. Another important later contribution made by the Tolkien fandom was the translation, carried out by people of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien List<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Yahoo Groups (which included members of the Spanish Tolkien Society as well as Latin Americans) of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Adventures of Tom Bombadil<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2005).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beginning in the early nineties, Minotauro published several books by and about Tolkien, the most important of which were Carpenter\u2019s biography, Tolkien\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Letters<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the volumes of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The History of Middle-earth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, edited by Christopher Tolkien. The interest in Tolkien\u2019s work continued to be fuelled in the later years of this decade by the translations of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfinished Tales<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Monsters and the Critics<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 1998, and a book on Elvish, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La lengua de los elfos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Language of the Elves<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), written by Luis Gonz\u00e1lez in 1999. In the academic sphere, Margarita Carretero wrote a PhD dissertation entitled &#8216;Fantas\u00eda, \u00e9pica y utop\u00eda en <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: an\u00e1lisis tem\u00e1tico y de la recepci\u00f3n&#8217; (&#8216;Fantasy, Epic and Utopia in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: An Analysis of Themes and Reception&#8217;), which was published by the University Press of Granada in 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The originally Argentinian publisher Minotauro, which had relocated from Buenos Aires to Barcelona in 1977, was bought by the Spanish media group Planeta in 2001, and now began translating international scholarship on Tolkien, notably works by Joseph Pearce and \u2013 crucially \u2013 Tom Shippey. Shippey\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Road to Middle-earth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> immediately became an inescapable point of reference for future Tolkien scholars in Spain. The book was magisterially translated by Eduardo Segura, who in the first decade of the new century would become a central figure in Spanish scholarship on Tolkien. Segura\u2019s 2001 PhD thesis, a narratological study of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">supervised by Jos\u00e9 Miguel Odero, made up the core of his perceptive study <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El viaje del Anillo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Journey of the Ring<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), which was published by Minotauro in 2004 (the book was re-issued in 2016 under the same title by the University Press of Granada). Prior to this, in 2003, Segura co-edited a selection of essays entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien o la fuerza del mito <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien, or the Power of Myth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), which included works by well-known international scholars such as Colin Duriez, Carl Hostetter, Tom Shippey, Patrick Curry and Wayne Hammond, among others. Segura himself contributed to this volume with an article on the narrative evolution from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hobbit <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Together with Thomas Honegger, Segura also co-edited an anthology of essays in English, with contributions by Spanish scholars such as the mentioned Margarita Carretero, Miryam Libr\u00e1n Moreno and Martin Simonson (apart from Segura himself), which was published as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myth and Magic: Art According to the Inklings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Walking Tree Publishers in 2007. That same year, Fernando Cid Lucas edited another collection of essays on Tolkien by Spanish scholars entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quince caminos para seguir a Tolkien <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fifteen Roads in the Footsteps of Tolkien<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), touching upon a wide range of aspects of the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legendarium<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2006, Martin Simonson, a Swedish scholar based at the University of the Basque Country, presented a doctoral thesis supervised by Eduardo Segura about the interaction of different literary genres in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The thesis, originally written in Spanish, was adapted and published by Walking Tree Publishers in<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2008 as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This book was followed, shortly afterwards, by an edition of Eduardo Segura\u2019s collected essays on Tolkien, entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.R.R. Tolkien: Mitopoeia y Mitolog\u00eda<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In these years, Simonson (a researcher and lecturer of comparative literature at the University of the Basque Country) and Myriam Libr\u00e1n Moreno, a scholar of Classics based at the University of Extremadura, published articles in the American journal <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien Studies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on the influence of Classical and nineteenth-century literary sources on Tolkien\u2019s works, respectively. Various courses on Tolkien were also organized at the Spanish universities of Alicante and Illes Balears, as well as the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A ground-breaking book of the 2010s was &#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El T\u00edo Curro&#8217;: La conexi\u00f3n espa\u00f1ola de J.R.R. Tolkien, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">de Jos\u00e9 Manuel Ferr\u00e1ndez (first published in 2013), which outlines the role of Father Francis Morgan \u2013 a member of the well-known Spanish Osborne family \u2013 in Tolkien\u2019s early life. (The book was translated into English and published by Luna Press as &#8216;<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Uncle Curro&#8217;: J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s Spanish Connection,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2018.) A more controversial, if less original study, which interprets <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a Christian allegory, was published by Diego Blanco in 2016 under the title <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Un camino inesperado: desvelando la par\u00e1bola de El se\u00f1or de los Anillos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An Unexpected Road: Revealing the Parable of The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">). The book was favourably received by many Catholic readers. We should also mention Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Miranda\u2019s original and thought-provoking study of the role of law and order in Tolkien\u2019s invented world, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El derecho en Tolkien<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Law in Tolkien<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), which was first published in 2017. (A revised and expanded English version of this book is currently being prepared by Walking Tree Publishers.) Finally, a fourth book on Tolkien in this period was Martin Simonson\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Oeste recuperado: La literatura del pasado y la construcci\u00f3n de personajes en El Se\u00f1or de los Anillos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The West Regained: The Literature of the Past and Character Development in The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), published in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for studies published in English by Spanish scholars, Simonson edited an international anthology entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Representations of Nature in Middle-earth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for Walking Tree Publishers in 2015, which used a mainly ecocritical lens for the analysis of Tolkien\u2019s works. Various articles by the researchers Helio De Rosario and Jos\u00e9 Manuel Ferr\u00e1ndez were also published in international journals such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien Studies, Mallorn<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mythlore<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and by<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eduardo Segura<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hither Shore<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Ferr\u00e1ndez has specialized in the formative years of Tolkien and his connection with Spain, while De Rosario centres more on linguistic matters. Segura\u2019s research has touched upon many different aspects of Tolkien, but mainly, perhaps, on the spiritual aesthetics present in his works, and the film adaptations. The latter theme was thoroughly explored in the book <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El Se\u00f1or de los Anillos: del libro a la pantalla<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> [<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings: From Book to Screen<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">], edited by Segura and Alejandro Pardo of the University of Navarra, with contributions by various Spanish scholars and a foreword by Tom Shippey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2010s saw the appearance of a number of posthumous publications related both to the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legendarium<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and to other aspects of Tolkien\u2019s career as a writer and scholar. These works doubtlessly contributed to the steadily growing appreciation, in the Spanish-speaking world, of Tolkien as an important twentieth-century writer. Following the translations of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Children of H\u00farin<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr\u00fan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Minotauro published translations of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fall of Arthur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Tolkien\u2019s version of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beowulf<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with the corresponding comments and notes; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Story of Kullervo<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beren and L\u00fathien <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fall of Gondolin,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> soon after the original works came out in English. Garth\u2019s seminal biography <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien and the Great War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was also made available to a Spanish-speaking readership in these years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to this sustained programme of publications by and about Tolkien, the 2010s would see an increase in Spanish scholarship on Tolkien, frequently under the auspices of doctoral and postdoctoral research undertaken at different Spanish universities. The departments of English at the University of Granada and the University of the Basque Country, as well as the CEU University of San Pablo in Madrid, the University of Francisco de Vitoria and the University of Zaragoza, contributed to this trend, hosting a series of conferences on Tolkien and the Inklings. The annual international conferences on the Inklings at the University of the Basque Country proved particularly influential in stimulating an interest in postgraduate research on Tolkien, attracting students from different parts of the country, and a new generation of Spanish Tolkien scholars gradually emerged. Rafael Pascual, a specialist in Old English based at the University of Oxford (originally from Granada) and co-translator of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fall of Arthur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and Andoni Cossio, a doctoral researcher of the University of the Basque Country centering on the role of trees and forests in Tolkien\u2019s work, have both published ther findings in prominent international academic journals. In parallel, several PhD theses on different aspects of the works of Tolkien have been successfully defended across the country \u2013 at the University of Le\u00f3n, the University of Vigo, the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma of Madrid, the University of Santiago de Compostela and the University of the Basque Country, to name a few.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The popular and scholarly interest in Tolkien does not seem to abate in the present decade. In 2021, a collection of translated essays entitled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.R.R. Tolkien y la Tierra Media<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) featured contributions by renowned international Tolkien scholars such as Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Thomas Honegger, Patrick Curry, Dimitra Fimi and Nick Groom, alongside the work of Spanish scholars Eduardo Segura, Jaume Albero, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Ferr\u00e1ndez and Martin Simonson. Tolkien studies are also beginning to take off in Latin America. For a few years now, the Tolkien Societies of Colombia, Chile, Peru, Argentina and Mexico have been particularly active in promoting Tolkien\u2019s works by means of publications, international conferences, periodical lectures and interviews. As for studies in English, Walking Tree Publishers is currently preparing a volume dedicated to Iberian scholarship on Tolkien; contributions to this volume include essays by Alejandro Mart\u00ednez, Andoni Cossio, Amaya Fern\u00e1ndez and Martin Simonson (all based at the University of the Basque Country), as well as M\u00f3nica Sanz, a philologist, Tolkien fandom specialist and member of the standing committee of the Spanish Tolkien Society. Without doubt, all these initiatives, publications and outlets for academic research in the Spanish-speaking world have contributed to consolidating an interest in the legacy of Tolkien as a writer and scholar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Bibliographical References<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blanco,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diego. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Un camino inesperado: desvelando la par\u00e1bola de El se\u00f1or de los Anillos<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ediciones Encuentro, 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carretero, Margarita. &#8216;Fantas\u00eda, \u00e9pica y utop\u00eda en <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: an\u00e1lisis\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tem\u00e1tico y de la recepci\u00f3n&#8217;. Universidad de Granada, 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cid, Fernando (ed.). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quince caminos para seguir a Tolkien. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Diputaci\u00f3n Provincial de\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">C\u00e1ceres, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ferr\u00e1ndez, Jos\u00e9 Manuel.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8216;El T\u00edo Curro&#8217;: La conexi\u00f3n espa\u00f1ola de J.R.R. Tolkien.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Luna\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Press, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gonz\u00e1lez, Luis. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La lengua de los elfos.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Minotauro, 1999.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Miranda, Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">El derecho en Tolkien<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2017). Ediciones Cinca, 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Odero,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 Miguel. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J.R.R. Tolkien. Cuentos de hadas.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Eunsa, 1987.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santoyo, Julio C\u00e9sar and Jos\u00e9 Miguel Santamar\u00eda,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Tolkien<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Barcanova, 1983.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Savater, Fernando. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La infancia recuperada.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Taurus, 1976.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segura, Eduardo.<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> El viaje del Anillo. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minotauro, 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segura, Eduardo, and Guillermo Peris (eds.) <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tolkien o la fuerza del mito<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Libros Libres,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2003.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segura, Eduardo, and Thomas Honegger (eds.). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myth and Magic: Art According to the\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inklings. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walking Tree Publishers, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Segura, Eduardo<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Alejandro Pardo (eds.).<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> El Se\u00f1or de los Anillos: del libro a la\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pantalla. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PortalEditions, 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simonson, Martin<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Lord of the Rings and the Western Narrative Tradition. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walking\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tree Publishers, 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simonson, Martin<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Eduardo Segura (eds.).<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> J.R.R. Tolkien: Mitopoeia y Mitolog\u00eda. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PortalEditions, 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simonson, Martin<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(ed.).<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Representations of Nature in Middle-earth. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Walking Tree\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Publishers, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simonson, Martin<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. El Oeste recuperado: La literatura del pasado y la construcci\u00f3n de\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">personajes en El Se\u00f1or de los Anillos. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peter Lang, 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simonson, Martin<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Jos\u00e9 R. Montejano (eds.).<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> J.R.R. Tolkien y la Tierra Media.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jonathan Alwars, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolkienestate.com\/es\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span>The following is an overview of the first forty-five years of studies on Tolkien published originally in Spanish, and studies by scholars from the Spanish-speaking world written in English. 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