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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"J. R. R. Tolkien"”.

  1. Women in the fictional works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

    Leo, Willadean ThordisCarleton University1976

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  2. Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature

    Morgan, Alexander C.The University of Western Ontario2021

    … in the works of William Morris, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Ursula K. Le Guin, demonstrating how the archaic figures and motifs of fantasy texts convey anticipatory glimpses of a utopian future.

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  3. The Other Middle-earth: Intertextuality and Iconography in Sergei Iukhimov’s Illustrations for The Lord of the Rings

    Merriner, Joel2018

    J. R. R. Tolkien once remarked in a 1949 letter to George Allen & Unwin that his friends were so impressed by Pauline Baynes’ illustrations for Farmer Giles of Ham that they labelled his text an adjunct to her drawings. This apparently light-hearted anecdote conceals an interesting truth: the …

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  4. Die Funktion der Atlantis-Rezeption in J. R. R. Tolkiens Númenor zwischen Empirie und Phantasie

    Schütz-Zimmermann, Nathalie Maria KatharinaUniversität Potsdam

    J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) ist mit seinem Mittelerde-Komplex einer der erfolgreichsten und wirkungsmächtigsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts und begründete mit seinem Schaffen die moderne Fantasy-Literatur. Zunächst von Leserinnen und Lesern immer wieder deutend als Allegorie des Zweiten …

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  5. A Survey of Adolescent Reading Habits and Influences : A Study in Selected Parochial Secondary Schools

    Davis, Sylvia J.

    … history. Favorite authors chosen were J. R. R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and C. S. Lewis. Favorite thematic categories included friendships, science fiction, fantasy and religion. The students affirmed their use of reference sources such as dictionaries and encyclopedias while …

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  6. Syncretic Immersion: Tolkien’s Languages As History, Artifacts, And Meta-Narratives

    Zdrojowy, Stewart RaymondEastern Kentucky University

    <p>J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth has been dissected and researched by philologists, medievalists, and literary theorists for decades. Though his work with languages (both historical and invented) has garnered attention over the past few decades, few scholars have looked at his languages in terms of …

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  7. Returning the King: the Medieval King in Modern Fantasy

    Natishan, Georgia KathrynVirginia Tech2012

    … Sandman is in many ways vastly different from Tolkien's Aragorn, the character still exists with a sense of purpose, responsibility, and duty; a regal bearing that does not necessarily occur in the majority of typical heroes. The influence of Tolkien's work both as a scholar and an author is …

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