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The nine contributions to Reconsidering Tolkien approach Tolkien's work from a variety of theoretical viewpoints. Marion Gymnich, Eduardo Segura and Guillermo Peris discuss the importance of Language and languages for Tolkien's narrative work, whi...

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The current volume, being the first of two dedicated to 'Tolkien and Modernity', grew out of the wish to further the exploration of Tolkien as a 'contemporary writer', i.e. an author whose literary creations can be seen as a response to the challe...

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The current volume, being the second of two dedicated to 'Tolkien and Modernity', grew out of the wish to further the exploration of Tolkien as a 'contemporary writer', i.e. an author whose literary creations can be seen as a response to the chall...

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J.R.R.Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," it has long been recognized, was shaped and undergirded by his Christian beliefs. But he was not the only writer of fantasy to have a close relationship between his faith and his fiction. This boo...

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As a linguist and philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien used words and languages as a source of inspiration for his subcreation and continuously interwove them with his narratives. With language being so central to his works, the task of translating them in...

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As in the preceding volume (TolkieninTranslation), the studies presented here deal with a wide range of problems and challenges connected with the task of translating Tolkien's work. Contributions do not only discuss aspects of translation into di...

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A new death for the old world, winds of industrial change that gust across green hills and dales, machines and callous hearts that dig deep into the ecosystems of Earth as trees crash upon the shrinking forest floors and ecological devastation is ...

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Traditionally, the "Inklings" C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and Charles Williams have been seen as separate from the literature of their time: as innovative in an idiosyncratic way at best, and as reactionary and in deliberate opposition to contempor...

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Tolkien famously rejected comparison of his Ring with Wagner's, though there is good evidence that Tolkien knew much more about Der Ring des Nibelungen than he let on after the publication of The Lord of the Rings. Analysis of that work from a Wag...

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"Both Rings were round and there the resemblance ceases", wrote J.R.R. Tolkien about the rings in his epic The Lord of the Rings and Richard Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung. Or did he? The answer is not as straightforward as many Tol...

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"Tolkien and Philosophy" is a theme that has not yet been studied with the "philological" accuracy and the textual knowledge that are required to avoid squeezing the Professor's works inside conceptual frameworks that, rather than exposing their i...

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"It is precisely against the darkness of the world that comedy arises, and it is best when that is not hidden."With these words Tolkien replied to Raynor Unwin's comments upon first reading Book 1 of Lord of the Rings. Raynor had not com...

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Sleeps a song in things abounding that keep dreaming to be heard: Earth’s tune will start resounding if you find the magic word. Joseph v. Eichendorff’s (1788–1857) famous poem “Wünschelrute” expresses what lies ...

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This volume "binds" a collection of selected papers that emerged from the J.R.R. Tolkien-lecture-series initiated at the University of Augsburg in 2014. Each of the papers is representative of the editors' interest in the interdisciplina...

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"Something has gone crack," Tolkien wrote about the first death among his tight-knit fellowship of friends in 1916, and the impact of the war haunted his writing for the rest of his life. In Tolkien’s body of work, the Great War serves as a ...

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The origins of this collection, and of the whole Tolkien and the Classics project, are twofold. First, there is the ever-growing awareness of the importance of making scholars and critics realize how much J.R.R. Tolkien is, in all respects, a grea...

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Who was Edith Bratt? Millions saw Hollywood's fantasy version of J.R.R. Tolkien's one and only love, Edith Bratt, in the 2019 movie, Tolkien . Fact, though, is stranger than fiction, and more interesting. Edith's story reveals a gallant heroine su...

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The present collection, Nl Hyarmenillo ('Lore from the South' in Quenya), features essays written by Spanish and Portuguese scholars on diverse topics related to Tolkien and his em style="background-color: rgba(255

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"World-building, name-finding, language-crafting; the flaws in chivalric practice, and the ethics (Machiavellian and otherwise) that produce the moral complexities of Middle-earth and the Known World are thus the topics that Tweaking Things a...

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J.R.R. Tolkien's Arda illustrates how he incorporated and built on aesthetics, ideals, and philosophies that were, during his lifetime, associated with the Romantics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J...

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"Der Herr der Ringe" ist einer der erfolgreichsten Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts. Kein Wunder! Schließlich erschuf J. R. R. Tolkien nicht nur eine packende Abenteuergeschichte, sondern sein Mythos von Mittelerde stellt gleichzeitig große, ...

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News from the Shire and Beyond - Studies on Tolkien comprises selected papers of the Swiss Tolkien Society's Cormark conference held at Seelisberg in 1996, and provides a cross-section of topics in the field of Tolkien studies. The spectrum ranges...

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Tolkien Through Russian Eyes examines the sociological impact of the translation and publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's works in post-Soviet Russia. After 70 years of obligatory State atheism, when the Soviet Union collapsed, Russian society began ac...

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[Recovery and Transcendence for the Contemporary Mythmaker] is one of the most persuasive and open-minded of the various appropriations of Tolkien to a religious or spiritual meaning. [...] At its heart is the anti-reductionist psychological/relig...

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Dies ist das perfekte Geschenk für alle Herr der Ringe-Fans. Die fantastischen Geschichten von J. R. R. Tolkien begeistern seit Jahrzehnten unzählige Menschen auf der ganzen Welt. Der kleine Hobbit und Der Herr der Ringe gehören heute zu den bekan...

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Hither Shore Band 6 versammelt die Vortrge des Tolkien Seminars 2009 der DTG und bietet zahlreiche Rezensionen von Verffentlichungen aus der internationalen Tolkienforschung der letzten Jahre.

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Hither Shore Band 7 versammelt die Vortrge des interdisziplinren Tolkien Seminars 2010 (der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V.) und bietet weitere Artikel zur aktuellen internationalen Tolkien-Forschung.

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Die Vortrge des Tolkien Seminars 2010 der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft

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Der Band versammelt die Vortrge des Tolkien Seminars 2013 der DTG sowie weitere Artikel zur aktuellen internationalen Tolkienforschung. Sprachen: Englisch und Deutsch.

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"Nature and Landscape in Tolkien", die Vorträge aus dem Tolkien Seminar 2014 der Deutschen Tolkien Gesellschaft e.V.

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