Add to ORKGGuest of Honor address at Mythcon 22. Reviews various definitions and characteristics of the hero according to several folklorists and psychologists. Discusses Aragorn, Gandalf, Frodo, and Sam as heroes according to these definitions
Considers the question of where Gollum fits within the overall Christian framework of Middle-earth, ...
Scholar Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 45. In his wide-ranging and conversational meditation on “Whe...
On behalf of the Lothlorien Group and its sponsor, the Mythopoeic Society, I would like to extend to...
Guest of Honor address at Mythcon 22. Reviews various definitions and characteristics of the hero ac...
Studies Sam, Aragorn, and Gandalf as archetypal masculine heroes in The Lord of the Rings
With a Jungian slant, groups Tolkien’s heroes from The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion into s...
Extensive discussion of the complexity of the character of Gollum/Sméagol. He can be seen as a kind ...
Joseph Campbell in his seminal book The Hero with a Thousand Faces says in the final chapter, The H...
Considers Sam the true hero of The Lord of the Rings; shows him to be the “focal point of two main m...
Explores “the stylized and conventional speeches” of Beowulf and the Green Knight as they “provide a...
Discusses Tolkien’s particular retelling in The Lord of the Rings of three basic mythic elements: th...
This essay examines how the main protagonists, in three separate novels which are Phantastes, The Lo...
Mythology entertains, relates history and conveys man\u27s relationship to god and the universe. Myt...
Analyzes the character of Aragorn as an example of, and transformation of, the “Byronic” hero of nin...
Study of world-wide mythical archetypes in relation to Tolkien’s Eärendil. Lays out a broad array of...
Considers the question of where Gollum fits within the overall Christian framework of Middle-earth, ...
Scholar Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 45. In his wide-ranging and conversational meditation on “Whe...
On behalf of the Lothlorien Group and its sponsor, the Mythopoeic Society, I would like to extend to...
Guest of Honor address at Mythcon 22. Reviews various definitions and characteristics of the hero ac...
Studies Sam, Aragorn, and Gandalf as archetypal masculine heroes in The Lord of the Rings
With a Jungian slant, groups Tolkien’s heroes from The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion into s...
Extensive discussion of the complexity of the character of Gollum/Sméagol. He can be seen as a kind ...
Joseph Campbell in his seminal book The Hero with a Thousand Faces says in the final chapter, The H...
Considers Sam the true hero of The Lord of the Rings; shows him to be the “focal point of two main m...
Explores “the stylized and conventional speeches” of Beowulf and the Green Knight as they “provide a...
Discusses Tolkien’s particular retelling in The Lord of the Rings of three basic mythic elements: th...
This essay examines how the main protagonists, in three separate novels which are Phantastes, The Lo...
Mythology entertains, relates history and conveys man\u27s relationship to god and the universe. Myt...
Analyzes the character of Aragorn as an example of, and transformation of, the “Byronic” hero of nin...
Study of world-wide mythical archetypes in relation to Tolkien’s Eärendil. Lays out a broad array of...
Considers the question of where Gollum fits within the overall Christian framework of Middle-earth, ...
Scholar Guest of Honor speech, Mythcon 45. In his wide-ranging and conversational meditation on “Whe...
On behalf of the Lothlorien Group and its sponsor, the Mythopoeic Society, I would like to extend to...