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Author : Amy L. TImco
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 13,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Civilization, Anglo-Saxon, in literature
ISBN :
Author : J. Chance
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230616790
J.R.R. Tolkien delved into the Middle Ages to create a critique of the modern world in his fantasy, yet did so in a form of modernist literature with postmodern implications and huge commercial success. These essays examine that paradox and its significance in understanding the intersection between traditionalist and counter-culture criticisms of the modern. The approach helps to explain the popularity of his works, the way in which they continue to be brought into dialogue with Twenty-First century issues, and their contested literary significance in the academy.
Author : Wayne G. Hammond
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780618083619
A collection of more than two-hundred reproductions of Tolkien's drawings, sketches, and paintings explores his career as an artist.
Author : Turgon
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 27,36 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
This thrilling volume features modern language versions of the centuries-old classics that directly inspired J.R.R. Tolkien's epics.
Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1134439709
Interdisciplinary in approach, Tolkien the Medievalist provides a fresh perspective on J. R. R. Tolkien's Medievalism. In fifteen essays, eminent scholars and new voices explore how Professor Tolkien responded to a modern age of crisis - historical, academic and personal - by adapting his scholarship on medieval literature to his own personal voice. The four sections reveal the author influenced by his profession, religious faith and important issues of the time; by his relationships with other medievalists; by the medieval sources that he read and taught, and by his own medieval mythologizing.
Author : Christopher Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 MB
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780008484446
With Christopher Tolkien as your guide, take a tour through this colourful gallery of enchanting art produced by J.R.R. Tolkien and presented in an elegant new slipcased edition. This collection of pictures, with text by Christopher Tolkien, now reissued after almost 30 years confirms J.R.R. Tolkien's considerable talent as an artist. It provides fascinating insight into his visual conception of many of the places and events familiar to readers of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. Examples of his art range from delicate watercolours depicting Rivendell, the Forest of Lothlorien, Smaug, and Old Man Willow, to drawings and sketches of Moria Gate and Minas Tirith. Together they form a comprehensive collection of Tolkien's own illustrations for his most popular books. Also included are many of his beautiful designs showing patterns of flowers and trees, friezes, tapestries and heraldic devices associated with the world of Middle-earth. In their variety and scope they provide abundant visual evidence of the richness of his imagination. This enchanting gallery was personally selected by Christopher Tolkien who, through detailed notes on the sources for each picture, provides unique insight into the artistic vision of his father, J.R.R. Tolkien.
Author : Patrick Curry
Publisher : HMH
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2004-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0544106563
A scholar explores the ideas within The Lord of the Rings and the world created by J. R. R. Tolkien: “A most valuable and timely book” (Ursula K. Le Guin, Los Angeles Times–bestselling author of Changing Planes). What are millions of readers all over the world getting out of reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Defending Middle-earth argues, in part, that the appeal for fans goes far deeper than just quests and magic rings and hobbits. In fact, through this epic, Tolkien found a way to provide something close to spirit in a secular age. This thoughtful book focuses on three main aspects of Tolkien’s fiction: the social and political structure of Middle-earth and how the varying cultures within it find common cause in the face of a shared threat; the nature and ecology of Middle-earth and how what we think of as the natural world joins the battle against mindless, mechanized destruction; and the spirituality and ethics of Middle-earth—for which the author provides a particularly insightful and resonant examination. Includes a new afterword
Author : Catherine McIlwaine
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2018-10-15
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ISBN : 9781851244973
Author : S. Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 17,63 MB
Release : 2005-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230503810
The Keys of Middle-Earth uniquely introduces the reader to the world of Medieval Literature through the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien. Using key episodes in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, readers are taken back to the works of Old, Middle English and Old Norse literature that so influenced Tolkien. The original texts are presented with helpful new translations to help the reader approach the medieval poems and tales, and introductory essays draw on recent scholarship and Tolkien's own unpublished notes. Presenting a new era of Tolkien studies, this book will be of use to students (and teachers) of Medieval/Old English literature and general readers interested in the origins of Tolkien's most widely-known works.
Author : Brian Bates
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780330491709
An intelligent popular history of the magically enchanting early English civilisation on which Tolkien based his world of Lord of the Rings.Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for the Dark Age world, it was always assumed that the importance of magic in this world existed only in Tolkien's works; now Professor Brian Bates reveals the vivid truth about this historical culture. Behind the stories we know of Dark Age king and queens, warriors and battles, lies the hidden history of Middle-earth, a world of magic, mystery and destiny. Fiery dragons were seen to fly across the sky, monsters haunted the marshes, and elves fired poisoned arrows. Wizards cast healing spells, wise trees gave blessings, and omens foretold the deaths of kings. The very landscape itself was enchanted and the world imbued with a life force. Repressed by a millennium of Christianity, this belief system all but disappeared, leaving only faint traces in folk memory and fairy tales. In this remarkable book Professor Brian Bates has drawn on the latest archaeological findings to reconstruct the imaginative world of our past, revealing a culture with insights that may yet help us understand our own place in the world.