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Author | : Jyrki Korpua |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2021-05-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476672881 |
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J. R. R. Tolkien is arguably the most influential fantasy writer of all time--his world building and epic mythology have changed Western audiences' imaginations and the entire fantasy genre. This book is the first wide-ranging Christian Platonic reading on Tolkien's fiction. This analysis, written for scholars and general Tolkien enthusiasts alike, discusses how his fiction is constructed on levels of language, myth and textuality that have a background in the Greek philosopher Plato's texts and early Christian philosophy influenced by Plato. It discusses the concepts of ideal and real, creation and existence, and fall and struggle as central elements of Tolkien's fiction, focusing on The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and The History of Middle-earth. Reading Tolkien's fiction as a depiction of ideal and real, from the vision of creation to the process of realization, illuminates a part of Tolkien's aesthetics and mythology that previous studies have overlooked.
Author | : Jyrki Korpua |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2024-08-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1040151612 |
Download Tolkien and the Kalevala Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores J. R. R. Tolkien’s unique and warm relationship to the Kalevala, a poem usually hailed as the Finnish and Karelian national epic, compiled, edited and partly revisioned from older folk poetry by Finnish scholar Elias Lönnrot in the 19th century. J. R. R. Tolkien, an Oxford academic and the greatest author of the 20th-century fantasy, creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was fascinated from early on by the Kalevala. Tolkien himself described the Kalevala as “a germ” of his fantasy fiction.
Author | : Douglas Estes |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2024-08-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1978712642 |
Download Theology and Tolkien Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Lord of the Rings and other works of J.R.R. Tolkien have had a far-reaching impact on culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In print and on film, Tolkien’s works seem to be incredible epics, but religious aspects are less obvious. Yet Tolkien himself stated in his letters that the chief conflicts of his epic works were “about God, and His sole right to divine Honour,” and whether Sauron can wrest and destroy all that is good in Middle-earth. It is from this that readers awaken to the theological truths that imbue Tolkien’s works. In Theology and Tolkien: Constructive Theology, an international group of scholars consider how Tolkien’s works (and Jackson’s interpretations) can help us build better theologies for use in our world today. From essays on the music of creation in the Ainulindalë, to angels, demons, and Balrogs, to Tolkien’s theology of God, providence, evil, and love, to the eschatology of the Final Chord of the Great Music, this book invites the reader to journey through Middle-earth as the contributors engage the theology of Tolkien’s works and its impact on the world.
Author | : John Garth |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2013-06-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0544263723 |
Download Tolkien and the Great War Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: “Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.” —A. N. Wilson As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War as a signal officer in the Battle of the Somme, where two of those school friends died. All the while, he was hard at work on an original mythology that would become the basis of his literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In this biographical study, drawn in part from Tolkien’s personal wartime papers, John Garth traces the development of the author’s work during this critical period. He shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that the young man used his imagination not to escape from reality—but to transform the cataclysm of his generation. While Tolkien’s contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. “Garth’s fine study should have a major audience among serious students of Tolkien.” —Publishers Weekly “A highly intelligent book . . . Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer.” —Max Hastings, author of The Secret War “Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation.” —San Jose Mercury News “A labour of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman’s nose for a good story with a scholar’s scrupulous attention to detail . . . Brilliantly argued.” —Daily Mail (UK) “Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights.” —Library Journal “Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien’s lush saga.” —Detroit Free Press
Author | : Anne C. Petty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Petty explores why J.R.R. Tolkien's works continue to resonate with new generations of readers as she reveals the underlying themes of his timeless classics. Illustrations.
Author | : J. R. R. Tolkien |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007388098 |
Download Tree and Leaf: Including MYTHOPOEIA Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Repackaged to feature Tolkien’s own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, ‘On Fairy-stories’ and the story that exemplifies this, ‘Leaf by Niggle’, together with the poem ‘Mythopoeia’ and the verse drama, ‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth’, which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.
Author | : Leslie Ellen Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction, English |
ISBN | : |
Download Myth & Middle-Earth Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This title takes a popular - not academic - look at the mythic world and mythic themes that inspired J.R.R. Tolkien, not only the Germanic and Norse mythology that most experts discuss, but also Celtic and Finnish myths. It talks of the journeys and quests that inspired Tolkien.
Author | : J. R. R. Tolkien |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0008131406 |
Download A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.
Author | : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 571 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007203586 |
Download The Fellowship of the Ring Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'The Fellowship of the Ring' is the first part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This 50th anniversary edition features special packaging and includes the definitive edition of the text.|PB
Author | : Wayne G. Hammond |
Publisher | : William Morrow |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780618083619 |
Download J.R.R. Tolkien Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of more than two-hundred reproductions of Tolkien's drawings, sketches, and paintings explores his career as an artist.