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Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages by Holly Ordway;
epub |eng | 2021-07-15 | Author:Holly Ordway;

( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
The Little Book of J.R.R. Tolkien by Orange Hippo!;
epub |eng | 2023-02-01 | Author:Orange Hippo!;

( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
The Oxford Inklings by Colin Duriez;
epub |eng | 2015-01-14 | Author:Colin Duriez;

So what was it about “fairy stories” and fantasy that led Tolkien and Lewis in particular to want to rehabilitate them for a modern audience? Their reasons for this interest ...
( Category: British & Irish July 16,2024 )
J. R. R. Tolkien by Colin Duriez;
epub |eng | 2012-09-20 | Author:Colin Duriez;

8 Leeds and dragons Leeds University lacked the bright, ancient splendour of Oxford. The sooty air from its manufacturing industry made its mock Gothic Victorian buildings grimy. A short walk ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
Twenty-First-Century Tolkien by Nick Groom;
epub |eng | | Author:Nick Groom;

Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of our time . . . The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology July 16,2024 )
Perilous Realms by Burns Marjorie;
epub |eng | 2005-07-15 | Author:Burns, Marjorie; [Burns, Marjorie]

Chapter Six Wisewomen, Shieldmaidens, Nymphs, and Goddesses There is no doubt that Tolkien idealized the masculine world of camaraderie, fealty, and fellowship, a world best depicted through high-minded adventure, through ...
( Category: 20th Century July 16,2024 )
Finding God in The Hobbit by Ware Jim
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Ware, Jim.

* * * REFLECTION True leaders endure their lot for the sake of others. A FORTUNATE MISTAKE So you see Bilbo had come in the end by the only road ...
( Category: British & Irish July 16,2024 )
An Encyclopedia of Tolkien by David Day;
epub |eng | | Author:David Day;

NORSE MYTHOLOGY The myths and legends of the Norse people found in a rich body of medieval texts, principally such Old Norse poems as the Poetic Edda and the Prose ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
The Dark Powers of Tolkien by David Day;
epub |eng | | Author:David Day;

Southron Tribesman of Far Harad Subsequently, Tolkien’s chronologies inform us that, after five centuries, Gondor’s grip on power over Umbar slips from its grasp. In the year TA 1448, Gondor ...
( Category: 20th Century July 16,2024 )
The Hobbits of Tolkien by David Day;
epub |eng | 2020-02-25 | Author:David Day;

* * * PART FOUR THE QUEST OF THE LONELY MOUNTAIN A CONSPIRACY OF DWARVES The quiet life of Bilbo Baggins of Bag End is forever disturbed by the unexpected ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 16,2024 )
The Hobbit and Philosophy by Bronson Eric Bassham Gregory & Eric Bronson
epub |eng | 2012-08-21 | Author:Bronson, Eric,Bassham, Gregory & Eric Bronson

Chapter 10 HOBBITUS LUDENS Why Hobbits Like to Play and Why We Should, Too David L. O’Hara Every two years, athletes gather from all over the world so that they ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 15,2024 )
Live Like a Vulcan, Love Like a Wookiee, Laugh Like a Hobbit by Robb Pearlman;
epub |eng | 2021-07-06 | Author:Robb Pearlman;

“Hire the clown.” —The Dark Knight “Speaking of which,” said the Vulcan, “have you ever noticed that you can often tell that something’s evil just by what they’re called or ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic July 15,2024 )
The Story of Kullervo by J.R.R. Tolkien;Verlyn Flieger;
epub |eng | 2015-07-30 | Author:J.R.R. Tolkien;Verlyn Flieger;

Notes and Commentary 67 not originally written for this society. See Introduction to the Essays. Tolkien first delivered this talk to the Sundial Society of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 15,2024 )
The Power of the Ring by Caldecott Stratford.;
epub |eng | 2012-07-15 | Author:Caldecott, Stratford.;

Given its centrality in Tolkien’s mythology as the link between the world of today and the Elder Days when the world was flat, between mythical time and historical time, the ...
( Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy July 15,2024 )
Modern Heroism by Roger Sale;
epub |eng | 2020-12-14 | Author:Roger Sale; [Sale, Roger]

IV. Tolkien and Frodo Baggins With Tolkien we are back to the catacylsm of World War I, though his reply to the war was different from Lawrence’s and was long ...
( Category: History & Criticism July 15,2024 )

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