• Janet Brennan Croft (born 1961) is an American librarian and Tolkien scholar, known for her authored and edited books and journals on J. R. R. Tolkien's...
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    bound to the One Ring, and that she is dying. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft comments that Jackson makes Arwen passive, denying her independence...
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  • of the self-less Gandalf". Bruce notes that the Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft also contrasts the two leaders. There are multiple parallels between...
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  • Charles Williams. The current editor-in-chief is the Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft. The Tolkien Society describes Mythlore as a "refereed scholarly...
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  • Jackson's Lord of the Rings is a 2004 collection of essays edited by Janet Brennan Croft on Peter Jackson's interpretation of The Lord of the Rings in his...
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  • whose every whim, like those of Miranda ... must be pandered to." Janet Brennan Croft of the University of Oklahoma reads the movie as a modern retelling...
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  • plausible, global shape", proved unworkable. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft states in Mythlore that the races of Middle-earth, Hobbits, Men,...
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  • environmental action in their "own backyard". The scholars Nan Scott and Janet Brennan Croft have commented on the pacifist dilemma embodied in the chapter. The...
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    descriptions. Biographers and scholars including John Garth and Janet Brennan Croft have suggested multiple specific correspondences and the war's likely...
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    and former colleagues. His Tolkien scholar colleagues including Janet Brennan Croft, John D. Rateliff, Verlyn Flieger, David Bratman, Marjorie Burns...
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  • Croft, Janet Brennan (2004). "'The young perish and the old linger, withering': J. R. R. Tolkien on World War II". Mythlore. 24 (2, article 6). Croft...
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  • "rough-and-ready measuring system"). Kristin Thompson, reviewing Janet Brennan Croft's early book on Tolkien on Film, wrote that "[literary] scholars seem...
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    that of his dead schoolfriends Geoffrey Bache Smith and Rob Gilson. Janet Brennan Croft writes that Tolkien's first prose work after returning from the war...
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  • and Others by Nancy-Lou Patterson, edited by Emily E. Auger and Janet Brennan Croft". Mythlore. 41 (2): 267. Shippey 2005, pp. 332–333. Shippey, Tom...
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  • cricketer Janet Brennan Croft (born 1961), American librarian and Tolkien scholar Janet Brewster (born 1969/1970), Canadian Inuk politician Janet Bronwen...
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  • in Paris In a paper comparing the film's plot to the Psyche myth, Janet Brennan Croft of the University of Oklahoma says the speech "subverts the idea...
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  • offer a glimpse of the way land shapes people". The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft notes that the battle is seen some of the time through the eyes of...
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    "From Both Sides Now: Bujold and the Fan Fiction Phenomenon". In Croft, Janet Brennan (ed.). Lois McMaster Bujold: Essays on a Modern Master of Science...
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  • the Great War was warmly welcomed by scholars. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft, reviewing the book for World Literature Today, wrote that Garth...
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  • traumatic event, is a central characteristic of post-traumatic stress." Janet Brennan Croft adds that "Frodo's experience of the war" resembles "modern war in...
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    Wormtongue so that Éowyn can appear directly. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft writes that in the book, Arwen is "never a temptress" or obstacle...
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  • also available in print format by subscription. Mythlore, edited by Janet Brennan Croft, publishes peer-reviewed articles on mythic and fantastic works,...
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  • (2005). "Frodo on Film: Peter Jackson's Problematic Portrayal". In Croft, Janet Brennan (ed.). Tolkien on Film: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the...
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  • The Lord of the Rings, and some in The Hobbit. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft comments that these "resonat[e]" or "collaborat[e]" with the main...
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  • medieval studies of Tolkien's work. In 2009, the Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft wrote in Mythlore that "The continued and growing success of Tolkien...
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  • returning home from their desperate quest to Mount Doom. Similarly, Janet Brennan Croft writes that the Hobbit Pippin may feel his part in the war to be...
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  • World War might have shaped Tolkien's thought. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft, reviewing the same book for World Literature Today, wrote that Garth...
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  • Birzer Janice Bogstad & Philip Kaveny Picturing Tolkien David Bratman Janet Brennan Croft Tolkien on Film Patrick Curry Bradford Lee Eden Dimitra Fimi Tolkien...
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  • The Lord of the Rings and some in The Hobbit. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft comments that these "resonat[e]" or "collaborat[e]" with the main...
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  • medieval-style interlacing as a narrative structure. The Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft has written that West's essay "has proven to have particularly long-lasting...
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