Add to ORKGMortality and immortality underlie the “emotional truth” (95) of Tolkien’s backstory, a truth which draws us as readers into a world in which longing and loss, death and deathlessness, are the foundation of a sub-created world that we as readers desire. The fantasy frame in Tolkien’s legendarium is extremely deep, and has been highly influential on other creators
Discusses aspects of “reality to the senses” and communication of “lore” in The Lord of the Rings. N...
An overview of Tolkien’s achievements in both fiction and scholarship, and an account of their work ...
Nelson demonstrates that Tolkien’s allegorical short story, “Leaf by Niggle,” owes a debt to the med...
Reproduces a letter from Tolkien to Dr. Herbert Schiro (later included in Letters, but at this time ...
Examines the tension between the theme of loss underlying so much of the content of The Lord of the ...
Explores “why Tolkien chose to call death a ‘gift,’ and in what way the underlying moral vision [......
Examines a number of concepts in Tolkien’s works—fall and redemption, good and evil, transcendence a...
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Abstract This doctoral dissertation discusses constructive mythopoetics in J. R. R. Tolkien’s legend...
After his St Andrews lecture on ‘Fairy Stories’ Tolkien projected his theory of sub-creation into hi...
Calls “The Tale of Aldarion and Erendis” one “which uniquely employs hard edges of reality to height...
Discusses the importance of time, death, and/or immortality for various races of Middle-earth
Study of world-wide mythical archetypes in relation to Tolkien’s Eärendil. Lays out a broad array of...
Discusses Tolkien’s particular retelling in The Lord of the Rings of three basic mythic elements: th...
Examines how Tolkien applied a central concept of “On Fairy-stories,” the idea that fantasy must be ...
Discusses aspects of “reality to the senses” and communication of “lore” in The Lord of the Rings. N...
An overview of Tolkien’s achievements in both fiction and scholarship, and an account of their work ...
Nelson demonstrates that Tolkien’s allegorical short story, “Leaf by Niggle,” owes a debt to the med...
Reproduces a letter from Tolkien to Dr. Herbert Schiro (later included in Letters, but at this time ...
Examines the tension between the theme of loss underlying so much of the content of The Lord of the ...
Explores “why Tolkien chose to call death a ‘gift,’ and in what way the underlying moral vision [......
Examines a number of concepts in Tolkien’s works—fall and redemption, good and evil, transcendence a...
Counters criticism of fantasy as morally negligible or as leading to morbid escapism; instead applie...
Abstract This doctoral dissertation discusses constructive mythopoetics in J. R. R. Tolkien’s legend...
After his St Andrews lecture on ‘Fairy Stories’ Tolkien projected his theory of sub-creation into hi...
Calls “The Tale of Aldarion and Erendis” one “which uniquely employs hard edges of reality to height...
Discusses the importance of time, death, and/or immortality for various races of Middle-earth
Study of world-wide mythical archetypes in relation to Tolkien’s Eärendil. Lays out a broad array of...
Discusses Tolkien’s particular retelling in The Lord of the Rings of three basic mythic elements: th...
Examines how Tolkien applied a central concept of “On Fairy-stories,” the idea that fantasy must be ...
Discusses aspects of “reality to the senses” and communication of “lore” in The Lord of the Rings. N...
An overview of Tolkien’s achievements in both fiction and scholarship, and an account of their work ...
Nelson demonstrates that Tolkien’s allegorical short story, “Leaf by Niggle,” owes a debt to the med...