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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Tolkien"”.
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Eliot through Tolkien: Estrangement, Verse Drama, and the Christian Path in the Modern Era
… of spiritual moment on the Modern stage. J.R.R. Tolkien’s theory of fantasy, as outlined in his essay “On Fairy Stories,” serves as the framework for my analysis of three of Eliot’s major plays: Murder in the Cathedral (1935), The Family Reunion (1939), and The Cocktail Party (1949). I argue that …
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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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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien recreates the “pregnant moment of poise” that inspired him in his study of Beowulf. Tolkien believed that this moment was a brief period of “fusion” which occurred in the Dark Ages as paganism was in decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of …
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Recreating Beowulf’s “Pregnant Moment of Poise”: Pagan Doom and Christian Eucatastrophe Made Incarnate in the Dark Age Setting of The Lord of the Rings
In The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien recreates the “pregnant moment of poise” that inspired him in his study of Beowulf. Tolkien believed that this moment was a brief period of “fusion” which occurred in the Dark Ages as paganism was in decline and Christianity on the rise, when the dueling notions of …
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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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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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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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Die Funktion der Atlantis-Rezeption in J. R. R. Tolkiens Númenor zwischen Empirie und Phantasie
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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Recovery, escape and consolation in the secondary worlds of The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien's essay "On Fairy-Stories" lays out three essential functions that all good fairy stories should fulfil: recovery, escape, and consolation. To carry out these functions, the fairy story needs to create a believable Secondary World that is separate from the Primary World in which we …
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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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"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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Making worlds collide : using Tolkien’s fantasy literature to create a new leadership development framework
… from De Rivera’s Conceptual Encounter technique. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy was used as a working model to demonstrate the process of Practical Applied Literature, and to create a new leadership development framework for leadership developers and coaches. This new framework was then …
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White Knowledge and the Cauldron of Story: The Use of Allusion in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.
… hinges in part on his use of allusion, in what Tolkien called the "Cauldron of Story," and what Pratchett refers to as "white knowledge." This paper explores the Discworld novels and illustrates Pratchett's use and success of storytelling through a few key directions: folk tales, fantasy …
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The Other Middle-earth: Intertextuality and Iconography in Sergei Iukhimov’s Illustrations for The Lord of the Rings
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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Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature
… 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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