@article{kisorHorrorUnnarratedLord2024,
title = {The {{Horror}} of the {{Unnarrated}} in {{The Lord}} of the {{Rings}}: {{Implications}} for {{Tolkien}}’s {{Reader}}},
shorttitle = {The {{Horror}} of the {{Unnarrated}} in {{The Lord}} of the {{Rings}}},
author = {Kisor, Yvette},
year = 2024,
journal = {Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society},
volume = {65},
pages = {6--18},
issn = {0308-6674},
abstract = {This essay considers how J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings participates in the horror genre, focusing specifically on how Tolkien often withholds details about the physicality of creatures encountered by members of the Fellowship, keeping them indistinct, and creates figures whose power to elicit fear stems at least in part from their apparent emptiness. It does so through the lens of reader-response theory, drawing primarily on Wolfgang Iser and Mikhail Bakhtin, and considering how structured gaps in the narrative implicate readers, obliging them to co-create scenes of horror.},
copyright = {Copyright (c) 2024 Yvette Kisor},
langid = {english}
}