• The cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics with pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat...
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    Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of...
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  • part of the cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium, telling how the Ainur, a class of angelic beings, perform a great music prefiguring the creation of the...
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  • J. R. R. Tolkien came to feel that the flat earth cosmology he embodied in his legendarium would be unacceptable to a modern readership. In The Silmarillion...
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  • of Finnish. Scholars have identified both multiple surface-level parallels between elements and characters in the Kalevala and Tolkien's legendarium,...
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  • much of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, compiled and edited by his son Christopher Tolkien. The series shows the development over time of Tolkien's conception...
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    The Lord of the Rings as "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work", rich in Christian symbolism. In the cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium, Men live...
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  • Kalevala as the Germ of Tolkien's Legendarium". In Chance, Jane (ed.). Tolkien and the invention of myth: a reader. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 285–294...
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  • for Tolkien's legendarium, his large body of fantasy writings, and for the entirety of his fictional world. Middle-earth is the main continent of Earth...
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  • set. After the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien's publisher, Stanley Unwin, requested a sequel, and Tolkien offered a draft of the writings that would...
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  • of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien...
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    envisaged in a flat Earth cosmology, with the stars, and later also the sun and moon, revolving around it. Tolkien's legendarium addresses the spherical...
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  • Patterson admired Tolkien's prose and was especially impressed by Tolkien's artwork, as seen in the illustrations of the cosmology of Arda in the Ambarkanta...
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  • history of Tolkien's writing, which like Tolkien's legendarium itself "takes time to absorb". He notes that it is among the first book-scale studies of The...
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  • In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Two Trees of Valinor are Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold Tree, which bring light to Valinor...
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  • Tolkien's Legendarium". Journal of Tolkien Research. 6 (1). Fonstad 1991, pp. vii, ix–xi. Bratman, David (2007). "Studies in English on the works of J...
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    Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age. The third volume of The Lord of the...
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  • of a biographical-historical method which sets the development of Tolkien's legendarium in the context of Tolkien's life and times. Major themes of the...
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  • Mythopoeia (category Tolkien studies)
    his "subcreation" (understood as a creation of Man within God's primary creation). Tolkien's wider legendarium includes not only origin myths, creation myths...
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  • the capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is a seven-walled fortress city built on the spur of a mountain, rising...
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  • attention to the rest of Tolkien's legendarium. He adds that the cover artwork, depicting dwarves battling trolls "in the style of Athenian black-figure...
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  • origins of Tolkien's legendarium". The Catholic World Report. Retrieved 15 February 2021. Fontenot, Megan N. (20 February 2020). "Exploring the People of Middle-earth:...
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  • as Tolkien's literary theories have been seen to influence the tale, so have Tolkien's experiences. The Hobbit may be read as Tolkien's parable of World...
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    sources, Tolkien's weapons are often named, sometimes with runic inscriptions to show they are magical and have their own history and power. In Tolkien's writings...
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    Hell and Middle-earth (category Themes of The Lord of the Rings)
    Christian conception of hell and evil places in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth. These include the industrial hells of Saruman's Isengard...
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  • TC 1564 – Christopher Tolkien reads chapter 19 of The Silmarillion, slightly abridged Tolkien's artwork Tolkien's maps Tolkien's scripts Cirth Sarati Tengwar...
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    Żurek, Agnieszka (2022). "Heraldry in J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium" (PDF). The Coat of Arms: Annual Journal of the Heraldry Society. 5 (239): 145–182....
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    inspired to compose music by Tolkien's writings. Music and song are mentioned throughout Tolkien's legendarium, in the Tolkien scholar Bradford Lee Eden's...
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    alternate name for hobbit-like peoples inspired by Tolkien's legendarium. Halflings have long been one of the playable humanoid races in Dungeons & Dragons...
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    to enter Valhalla. In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the "level bridge" of "The Fall of Númenor", an early version of the Akallabeth, recalls Bifröst...
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