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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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Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of the...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings (redirect from Tolkien societies)
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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lectures about Tolkien's thought and works made in Italy in 1992 by the Tolkien Society archivist, Patricia Reynolds, on the centenary of Tolkien's birth. She...
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The Hobbit (redirect from JRR Tolkien/The Hobbit)
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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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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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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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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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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the published works of the English writer and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. Tolkien's works were published before and after his death. 1937 The Hobbit,...
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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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History of fantasy (redirect from History of fantasy fiction)
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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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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Warg (redirect from Tolkien's wargs)
In the philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, a warg is a particularly large and evil kind of wolf that could be ridden...
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Elvish languages (category Elves in popular culture)
Introduction to the Linguistic and Literary Background of J. R. R. Tolkien's Fiction. New York City: North Landing Books. "Invented Languages". ISBN 978-0-9816607-1-4...
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Middle-earth (redirect from JRR Tolkien/Middle Earth)
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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The Silmarillion (redirect from JRR Tolkien/Akallabeth)
Middle-earth, where Tolkien's most popular works—The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings—are set. After the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien's publisher, Stanley...
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in his "On Fairy-Stories" and C. S. Lewis's quotation, in his "On Science Fiction" of Tolkien's question of who would be most hostile to the idea of escape...
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that I think of". In 1948, Milein Cosman was invited by Tolkien's publishers to submit illustrations for Farmer Giles of Ham. Tolkien felt her impressionistic...
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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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