Add to ORKGDescribes five “laws” underlying Tolkien’s Middle-earth and how the action of The Lord of the Rings proceeds logically from them: the cosmos is ultimately providential; the result of an action is influenced by its intent; moral and magical laws are as important as physical laws; states of mind influence physical reality; and experience is the realization of proverbial truth or romantic convention
Responds to critics who call Tolkien anti-science and anti-technology by showing that creatures of M...
Examines a number of concepts in Tolkien’s works—fall and redemption, good and evil, transcendence a...
Tolkien is often lightly accused of having a romantic view of nature, in that he portrays the natura...
Examines The Lord of the Rings as a reflection of its historical and social context and seeks Tolkie...
Focuses on Tolkien’s narrative treatment in The Lord of the Rings and the “Ring as an emergent symbo...
Examines how Tolkien’s rings of power “evolved until they bear little resemblance to the magic rings...
A brief look at Tolkien’s sources, particularly the medieval period as a cultural and moral source
Discusses Tolkien’s particular retelling in The Lord of the Rings of three basic mythic elements: th...
Examines the evidence in Tolkien’s writings to construct a history of the Shire as a social and poli...
Tolkien’s vast and detailed legendarium has helped pave the way for the fantasy genre as we know it ...
The epic world created by J.R.R. Tolkien in the Lord of the Rings trilogy is one in which secular an...
This essay aims to explore the political and legal philosophical layers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpi...
This essay was written for Dr. Quamen’s ENGL 486 class on the Internet as Environment. Using network...
Distinguishes the aesthetic requirements of fantasy as a genre and how they differ from those of mim...
Three-part examination of “how Tolkien’s theory of the centrality of the monsters in Beowulf influen...
Responds to critics who call Tolkien anti-science and anti-technology by showing that creatures of M...
Examines a number of concepts in Tolkien’s works—fall and redemption, good and evil, transcendence a...
Tolkien is often lightly accused of having a romantic view of nature, in that he portrays the natura...
Examines The Lord of the Rings as a reflection of its historical and social context and seeks Tolkie...
Focuses on Tolkien’s narrative treatment in The Lord of the Rings and the “Ring as an emergent symbo...
Examines how Tolkien’s rings of power “evolved until they bear little resemblance to the magic rings...
A brief look at Tolkien’s sources, particularly the medieval period as a cultural and moral source
Discusses Tolkien’s particular retelling in The Lord of the Rings of three basic mythic elements: th...
Examines the evidence in Tolkien’s writings to construct a history of the Shire as a social and poli...
Tolkien’s vast and detailed legendarium has helped pave the way for the fantasy genre as we know it ...
The epic world created by J.R.R. Tolkien in the Lord of the Rings trilogy is one in which secular an...
This essay aims to explore the political and legal philosophical layers of J.R.R. Tolkien’s masterpi...
This essay was written for Dr. Quamen’s ENGL 486 class on the Internet as Environment. Using network...
Distinguishes the aesthetic requirements of fantasy as a genre and how they differ from those of mim...
Three-part examination of “how Tolkien’s theory of the centrality of the monsters in Beowulf influen...
Responds to critics who call Tolkien anti-science and anti-technology by showing that creatures of M...
Examines a number of concepts in Tolkien’s works—fall and redemption, good and evil, transcendence a...
Tolkien is often lightly accused of having a romantic view of nature, in that he portrays the natura...