Add to ORKGExamines links between Chesterton and Tolkien “developing from a mutually strong religious conviction as regards their Catholicism, especially in its medieval historical experience.” Sees a number of parallels between Chesterton’s poem “The Ballad of the White Horse” and the values and events of Tolkien’s major work
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth. J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewe...
Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewin...
Examines all the minor, early poems that relate to (or seem to relate to) Middle-earth. Compares dif...
Traces moral, religious, and creative parallels between MacDonald and Tolkien. Finds that Christiani...
Notes that Tolkien only admitted one post-medieval source as an influence—Haggard’s She series—and t...
Compares aspects of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings to The Mythological Cycle of Irish li...
Discusses the review essays Tolkien wrote for The Years’ Work in English Studies in 1923–1926, and f...
Examines and categorizes the over sixty examples of folk-songs and poems in Middle-earth—songs of lo...
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Discussion of transcription of “Bombadil poem” reproduced in 1978 Silmarillion Calendar, and what it...
Concerns the roots of the wizard Gandalf’s character in the legendary figure of Merlin, tracing Merl...
Recounts the author’s encounters with Tolkien’s written scholarship at Oxford, and attendance at a T...
A somewhat playful look at Tolkien’s invented languages, deducing some of the rules for evolution fr...
Reviews various definitions of allegory and Tolkien’s writings on the subject to determine more prec...
Reviews various definitions of allegory and Tolkien’s writings on the subject to determine more prec...
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth. J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewe...
Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewin...
Examines all the minor, early poems that relate to (or seem to relate to) Middle-earth. Compares dif...
Traces moral, religious, and creative parallels between MacDonald and Tolkien. Finds that Christiani...
Notes that Tolkien only admitted one post-medieval source as an influence—Haggard’s She series—and t...
Compares aspects of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings to The Mythological Cycle of Irish li...
Discusses the review essays Tolkien wrote for The Years’ Work in English Studies in 1923–1926, and f...
Examines and categorizes the over sixty examples of folk-songs and poems in Middle-earth—songs of lo...
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Discussion of transcription of “Bombadil poem” reproduced in 1978 Silmarillion Calendar, and what it...
Concerns the roots of the wizard Gandalf’s character in the legendary figure of Merlin, tracing Merl...
Recounts the author’s encounters with Tolkien’s written scholarship at Oxford, and attendance at a T...
A somewhat playful look at Tolkien’s invented languages, deducing some of the rules for evolution fr...
Reviews various definitions of allegory and Tolkien’s writings on the subject to determine more prec...
Reviews various definitions of allegory and Tolkien’s writings on the subject to determine more prec...
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth. J. R. R. Tolkien. Ed. by Christopher Tolkien. Reviewe...
Explores Tolkien’s technique of balancing the predictable and every-day with the wonderful by viewin...
Examines all the minor, early poems that relate to (or seem to relate to) Middle-earth. Compares dif...