J. R. R. Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, created what he came to feel was a moral dilemma for himself with his supposedly evil Middle-earth peoples like...
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his name. Tolkien's will was proven on 20 December 1973, with his estate valued at £190,577 (equivalent to £2,911,000 in 2023). Tolkien's Catholicism...
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Geography of Middle-earth (redirect from Tolkien's moral geography)
of Middle-earth encompasses the physical, political, and moral geography of J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, strictly a continent on...
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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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Rings of Power (redirect from JRR Tolkien/Rings of Power)
first appeared as a plot device, a magic ring in Tolkien's children's fantasy novel, The Hobbit; Tolkien later gave it a backstory and much greater power...
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author. See also Tolkien's sentience dilemma. Carpenter 2023, #29 to Stanley Unwin, #30 to Rütten & Loening, both 25 July 1938 Tolkien 1954, book 3, ch...
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doing, it created a moral dilemma, enabling people to commit injustices without fearing they would be caught. In contrast, Tolkien's Ring actively exerts...
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Orc (redirect from Orc (Tolkien))
/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 the Rings...
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Wizards in Middle-earth (redirect from Wizards (Tolkien))
The Wizards or Istari in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction were powerful angelic beings, Maiar, who took the form of Men to intervene in the affairs of Middle-earth...
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Hobbit (redirect from JRR Tolkien/Hobbits)
however, is Tolkien's description of the enormous dragon firework at Bilbo's party which rushed overhead "like an express train". Tolkien's drawing of...
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mythopoeia or myth-making), was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens. Tolkien's glossopoeia has two temporal dimensions: the internal...
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Elves in Middle-earth (redirect from Elves (Tolkien))
because time there is distorted, as in Tolkien's Lothlórien. Shippey comments that it is a strength of Tolkien's "re-creations", his imagined worlds, that...
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Men in Middle-earth (redirect from Men (Tolkien))
In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, Man and Men denote humans, whether male or female, in contrast to Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and other humanoid...
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Maiar (redirect from Maia (Tolkien))
Maiar (singular: Maia) are a fictional class of beings from J. R. R. Tolkien's high fantasy legendarium. Supernatural and angelic, they are "lesser Ainur"...
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Moria, Middle-earth (redirect from Moria (Tolkien))
in Tolkien's invented mythology for England is constructed with elaborate detail. She cites Humphrey Carpenter's biographical account of Tolkien's "painstaking...
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Middle-earth (redirect from JRR Tolkien/Middle Earth)
human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past. Tolkien's most widely read works, The Hobbit and The Lord of...
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Rohan, Middle-earth (redirect from Rohan (Tolkien))
Rohan is a fictional kingdom of Men in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy setting of Middle-earth. Known for its horsemen, the Rohirrim, Rohan provides its ally...
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in Punch magazine. Tolkien and the classical world Tolkien and the Norse Tolkien's modern sources "The Elvish Lament", with Tolkien's Sindarin poem A Elbereth...
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Trolls in Middle-earth (redirect from Tolkien's troll)
Trolls are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, and feature in films and games adapted from his novels. They are portrayed as monstrously...
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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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Mithril (redirect from Mithril (Tolkien))
Mithril is a fictional metal found in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. It is described as resembling silver, but being stronger and lighter than...
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"Necromancer" of Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. The Silmarillion describes him as the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that...
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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 Valar (['valar]; singular Vala) are characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. They are "angelic powers" or "gods" subordinate to the one God (Eru...
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Literary reception of The Lord of the Rings (redirect from Tolkien societies)
distinguishing such "critics" from Tolkien scholarship, the study and analysis of Tolkien's themes, influences, and methods. Tolkien's fiction began to acquire...
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Tom Bombadil (section Tolkien)
Tom Bombadil is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He first appeared in print in a 1934 poem called "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", which...
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gave its owner the power of invisibility, as Tolkien's One Ring did. In so doing, it created a moral dilemma, enabling people to commit injustices without...
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marry has an analogue with Tolkien's own youth, when his guardian Father Francis Morgan took responsibility for Tolkien's moral wellbeing after his mother...
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The Scouring of the Shire (section A pacifist dilemma)
state that Tolkien's letters demonstrate his dislike of socialism, and that in the chapter Tolkien deftly satirizes "socialism's pose of moral superiority"...
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Black Speech (section Tolkien)
extent of Tolkien's work on this language." David Ashford, in the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, observes that uniquely among Tolkien's languages...
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