Voyages mythiques et passages aux Enfers dans la littérature fantastique contemporaine Le Seigneur des Anneaux et À la croisée des mondes

Like their classical counterparts of the Odyssey and the Aeneid, contemporary fantasy heroes embark on dangerous voyages to an underground world of the dead, through catabasis, or to a realm of symbolic otherness, through nekyia, both of which constitute rites of passage in The Lord of the Rings and His Dark Materials.