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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"J.R.R. Tolkien"”.
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Along for the Journey: Exploring the Transformative Storytelling of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and Charles Williams
<p>I will be exploring the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and Charles Williams. In each one of the novels I explore a journey that each main character must take. Their actions will bring them to a new, transformative life or a very literal death. There is much at stake. The readers must also …
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Creating a "Mythology for England": the role of England and Englishness in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien stated that he intended to create a 'Mythology for England.' This thesis deals with the issues that surround this claim: the reasons for the lack of a coherent English mythology, how Tolkien's writings fit in with the aim of creating a 'mythology for England', and how successful he …
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Middle-earth's War on Terror: a Post-9/11 Reception Study on the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
… investigates how Americans can and do interpret Tolkien's works in light of 9/11 and its proximity to Peter Jackson's film adaptations hitting theaters. </p>
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The value hierarchies of J.R.R. Tolkien and his legacy: a reimagining of fantasy fiction and the propagation of colonial racism
<p>J.R.R. Tolkien’s impact on modern fantasy fiction is remarkable. However, while some of the changes to the genre ushered in by Tolkien’s work are positive, other aspects of his legacy are more problematic. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion are based on his …
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Awakening a World With Words: How J.R.R. Tolkien Uses Linguistic Narrative Techniques to Take His Readers to Faery in His Short Story Smith of Wootton Major.
J.R.R. Tolkien uses specific linguistic narrative techniques in Smith of Wootton Major to make the world of Wootton Major and the nearby land of Faery come to life for his readers. In this thesis, I examine how Tolkien accomplishes this feat by presenting a linguistic analysis of some parts of the …
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El Cercle de l'Anell : anàlisi del consum d'un producte cultural segons el model del Circuit de la Cultura : tolkiendili i ringers. El cas de l'Smial de Lórien.
… del fenomen cultural creat al voltant de J.R.R. Tolkien, l'autor d'El Senyor dels Anells, tot emprant el model del Circuit de la Cultura (Du Gay et als). La recerca se centra en el Consum: els fans i les fans de Tolkien i de la trilogia cinematogràfica 'The Lord of the Rings': tolkiendili i …
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The Words. Or Holes. Or Both: Writing as an Integrative Methodology for Trauma
… War Literature and specific authors like J.R.R. Tolkien and Kurt Vonnegut to explore the way writers describe the trauma of combat. Using insights from neuroscience and psychology, I will expand the field of Cognitive Literary Studies from a focus on the reader to a focus on the writer by linking …
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Illuminating the true light of northern courage: Gandalf as J.R.R. Tolkien's revised Odin
In this thesis, I argue that J.R.R. Tolkien was determined to re-write the character of the Norse god Odin as Tolkien thought he ought to have been. I argue that this desire was rooted in Tolkien’s belief of “true light”: a thing’s essential goodness which is often corrupted or disguised by evil …
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Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture
… St. Pope John Paul II, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Josef Pieper, Madeline L’Engle, Dr. Bob Schuchts, Makoto Fujimura, and Andrew Peterson inform an exploration of mercy, forgiveness, and love as self-gift in the context of illustration and storytelling at large.</p> <p>By highlighting a …
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Unicorns Are Not Real and Neither Are You: Peter S. Beagle's Postmodern Fairy Tale
… the critical lenses of Bruno Bettelheim, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Barth, and Brian McHale. By simultaneously deconstructing and following fairy tale conventions/tropes, <em>The Last Unicorn</em> offers its reader a postmodern story that explores the reality of fiction. The complex merging of reality …
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On Drawings of Dragons
… fantasy and science fiction authors J.R.R. Tolkien and Ursula K. LeGuin in conversation with visual and contextual examination of examples of popular fantasy imagery including the work Howard Pyle (1853-1911) and the 2022 debut work of author-illustrator duo Nadia Shammas and Sara Alfageeh. …
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Between a Rock and a Better Place
… including Ling Ma, Samuel Beckett, and J.R.R. Tolkien, with original stories. The characters in these stories grapple with Biblical plagues, health insurance conspiracies, and the undead, as well as addiction, forgiveness, and redemption. As a collection, <em>Between a Rock and a Better …
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : Entertainment--the Author's Intention
… and the Green Knight</em> edited by J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon, second edition revised by Norman Davis (1967). The divisions referred to in the paper, however, will be the nine original manuscript divisions, signified by large capital letters (see appendix), not the four usually …
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Imaginary Friends: Engaging the Unconscious Mind through Picture Books
… fantasy in readers by Gianni Rodari and J.R.R. Tolkien, I find the value of the liminal nature of the imaginary friend in children’s literature. Ultimately, I argue for its function as a doorway for young readers to engage with the world of picture books in unique and insightful ways.</p>
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A Perfect Escape: Fantasy, Place and Narrative in Adolescence
… subject by English writer and philologist J.R.R. Tolkien and American Poet W.H. Auden, defining fantasy and its role within storytelling. The essay concludes in defining a method of storytelling that aims to aid in the personal development of its audience by using real life experiences and places, …
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"A Mind of Metal and Wheels": Agrarian Ruralism in Joss Whedon's <em>Firefly</em> and J.R.R Tolkien's <em>The Lord of The Rings</em>
<p>Both Joss Whedon's <em>Firefly</em> and J.R.R Tolkien's <em>The Lord of The Rings</em> present settings that are just as much influenced by the environments in which they occur as they are by the characters who act within those environments. For J.R.R. Tolkien, it was his lived experience of …
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Turbulent Times: Epic Fantasy in Adolescent Literature
… Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker series, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea trilogy, and David Eddings' Belgariad. Though it is impossible to test the effects of reading such works on readers, the possibility of those effects exists. Bettelheim's work, The Uses …