• R. R. Tolkien set out to explore time travel and distortions in the passage of time in his fiction in a variety of ways. The passage of time in The Lord...
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  • Tolkien fan fiction is fantasy fiction, often published on the Internet, by Tolkien fans, in enormous quantities. It is based either directly on some aspect...
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    Dimitra (2020) [2014]. "Later Fantasy Fiction: Tolkien's Legacy". In Lee, Stuart D. (ed.). A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien. Wiley Blackwell. pp. 335–349....
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  • Tolkien's artwork was a key element of his creativity from the time when he began to write fiction. A professional philologist, J. R. R. Tolkien prepared...
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    Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of the...
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  • fans share their Tolkien fan fiction with other fans. Tolkien societies support fans in many countries around the world. Tolkien's The Hobbit, a children's...
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  • conference on research into Tolkien's invented languages. A large literature examines Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy fiction from numerous points of view...
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  • philologist Gabriel Turville-Petre. Tolkien was for a long time part of the critical audience for his father's fiction, first as a child listening to tales...
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    the Rings film series brought a new and very large audience to Tolkien's work. Tolkien's influence reached role-playing games as early as 1974 with Gary...
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    of God in Tolkien's fiction). Bratt first met Tolkien in 1908, when they lived in the same boarding house. Both were orphans. The two fell in love, despite...
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  • Orc (redirect from Orc (Tolkien))
    ork; /ɔːrk/), in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy fiction, is a race of humanoid monsters, which he also calls "goblin". In Tolkien's The Lord of...
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  • occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens. Tolkien's glossopoeia has two temporal dimensions: the internal (fictional) timeline of events in Middle-earth...
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    new material. In demand for more, Ace Books science fiction editor Donald A. Wollheim felt Tolkien's three part novel had enough elements in common with...
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  • cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics with pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat Earth paradigm...
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  • hand-drawn feeling of Tolkien's maps. The Hobbit contains two simple maps and only around 50 placenames. In the view of the Tolkien critic Tom Shippey,...
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  • The History of Middle-earth (category Collections of works by J. R. R. Tolkien)
    compiled and edited by his son Christopher Tolkien. The series shows the development over time of Tolkien's conception of Middle-earth as a fictional place...
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  • stories from Tolkien's childhood, such as books by John Buchan and H. Rider Haggard, especially the 1887 She: A History of Adventure. Tolkien stated that...
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    Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary. Fictional...
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  • pp. 117–122 "The Leaf Mold of Tolkien's Mind" Martinez, Michael (10 July 2015). "Tolkien's Dickensian Dreams". The Tolkien Society. Retrieved 31 March 2023...
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  • dragons: Tolkien's impact on Heaney's Beowulf". Mythlore (95/96). Retrieved 3 December 2017. Faraci, Mary (2002). "'I wish to speak' (Tolkien's voice in his...
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    in love. However, before the end of the year the relationship had become known to Tolkien's guardian. Viewing Edith as a distraction from Tolkien's schoolwork...
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  • R. Tolkien (Revised ed.). F. Ungar. ISBN 978-0-8044-2106-5. OCLC 7279806. Curry, Patrick (2020) [2014]. "The Critical Response to Tolkien's Fiction" (PDF)...
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  • underplayed the importance of Tolkien's Christianity. A reviewer for the Western Front Association thought the account of Tolkien's military service especially...
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    complete of Tolkien's constructed languages. Elves are also credited with creating the Tengwar (by Fëanor) and Cirth (Daeron) scripts. Tolkien's Elves are...
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  • Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie is a 1997 book of literary analysis by Verlyn Flieger of J. R. R. Tolkien's explorations of the nature of time in...
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  • R. R. Tolkien is a selection of the philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's letters. It was published in 1981, edited by Tolkien's biographer...
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  • tradition; Tolkien's orcs fit into the tradition of MacDonald's goblins and ultimately of the monsters in Beowulf. She concludes, "I believe Tolkien's racial...
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    of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past. Tolkien's most widely read works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, are set entirely in Middle-earth...
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  • science fiction, distinguishing such "critics" from Tolkien scholarship, the study and analysis of Tolkien's themes, influences, and methods. Tolkien's fiction...
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    Tom Shippey (category The Tolkien Society members)
    just overlapping with Tolkien's last years of retirement), and as Professor of English Language at Leeds (where I inherited Tolkien's chair and syllabus)...
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