... Coco Chanel, VW, Marshall Aid, Tito, Yuri Gagarin, Tolkien's troll, Berlin wall and Euro-toll; ideologies, purges, repeated ...
Tópico(s): Balkans: History, Politics, Society
2014 - | Geopolitics History and International Relations
... to such as the fairy story (or romance) (Tolkien, On Fairy-stories 87). Furthermore, he understood Faerie to be a place or state containing, along with fairies, dwarves, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons, and all the other elements, plants, and things that make up that place or state. Stories set in Faerie are typically the adventures of men in the Perilous Realm or upon its shadowy marches (38). In spite of the widespread use of illustration in association with medieval narrative, (1) Tolkien was of the opinion that fantasy was a ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
2008 - | Journal of the fantastic in the arts
Brian Laetz, Joshua J. Johnston,
... and Joshua J. Johnston Wizards, elves, dragons, and trolls—this is certainly the stuff of fantasy, populating the fictions of such giants as Tolkien, no less than the juvenilia of many aspiring ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2008 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Philosophy and literature
... drinking or walking songs (e.g., Sam's troll song, which, according to Tolkien, was written to fit the meter of an ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2022 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... are never explicitly associated (except indirectly perhaps the trolls) with contemporaneous events. These evil beings, it would appear, are purely creatures of fantasy, so that nothing horrible that happens to them can have any possible relevance to the so-called real world inhabited by Tolkien's readers, and therefore we who take pleasure ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2008 - Pittsburg State University | The Midwest quarterly
K. S. Whetter, Roderick A. McDonald,
... also bears on the nature of heroism in Tolkien's work. The principal blades of will need little explication. Several are introduced early in The Hobbit, when the swords Glamdring and Orcrist, as well as Bilbo's initially unnamed blade, are taken from the lair of the trolls (2.50-51). (3) Two of these blades, ...
Tópico(s): Child Development and Digital Technology
2006 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... rather than funny merely as take-offs of Tolkien. Examples include Thorin as a cliché-spouting spoof of Aaron Sorkin, the Trolls as Internet trolls, the Great Goblin as Tony ...
Tópico(s): Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
2016 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... Another evening, I am reading J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbit for our usual bedtime story. Bilbo and the dwarves have been captured by trolls. I stop and ask Liam, What do you ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
1993 - SAGE Publishing | Phi Delta Kappan
In J.R.R Tolkien's two towers ent Treebeard tells Merry and Pippin that orcs were made by Sauron in mockery of elves, as trolls were made in mockery of ents (The Lord of Rings [LotR] III.4.486). A closer look at Tolkien's works, however, would indicate that evil race ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2013 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... in which my interest lies, the one where Tolkien's dragon might be said to defy expectations. Initially, the dragon is mentioned as the main antagonist of the dwarves visiting Bilbo Baggins, as the object of their quest and as a destroyer and killer whose death they desire. The actual encounter with the dragon keeps being postponed as the quest proceeds, with trolls and goblins and wolves and spiders and elves— ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2009 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
IN J.R.R TOLKIEN'S SPRAWLING LEGENDARIUM, mythic world of Middle-earth and its suburbs, Orcs provide a seemingly endless supply of enemies to ... part, good and evil are strictly demarcated in Tolkien's world (with a few interesting exceptions), but, ... loathsome, ugly, cruel, feared, and especially terminable. In Tolkien's world, as Mary Ellmann once put it, ... fact makes it a bit disturbing, then, that Tolkien's heroes, without least pang of conscience, dispatch ... when considering origins of Orcs (i.e., in Tolkien's world, not philological or folkloric origins in ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2010 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... the people they represent, but hobbits, dragons, and trolls are rendered childlike and rather clownish in their features, utterly unlike the characters Tolkien imagined and populated his worlds with. While the ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2011 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
... readers may find useful, as background study to Tolkien, Tom Shippey's new anthology The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous, a collection of eleven essays on mythological creatures including elves, dwarves, trolls, giants and dragons, as originally detailed in Jacob Grimm's compendious Deutsche Mythologie, best known in English in J. S. Stallybrass's four volume translation titled Teutonic Mythology (1882-1888). This anthology appeared in late 2005 in hardcover from the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ISBN 0866983341). Douglas A. Anderson Douglas A. Anderson is co-editor of Tolkien Studies. Copyright © 2006 West Virginia University Press
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2006 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... audience want to know what happens next" (28). Tolkien did not share Forster's apologetic attitude to "story", but defines it as for him the most important aspect of literature (Reader 51-2); his own fictions conspicuously raise and answer the question "what happens next?" in a world peopled by elves, dwarves, goblins, talking birds and beasts, shape-shifters, giants, trolls, dragons, and heroes, which he had not imagined ...
Tópico(s): Comics and Graphic Narratives
1988 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Children's Literature Association quarterly
... of this breach, and the ways in which Tolkien sought to mend it, using fairies such as ... The Book of Lost Tales and much of Tolkien's poetry even into the 1930s. As is ... It should be no surprise of course that Tolkien's practice in The Lord of the Rings ... Hobbit, a work in which we can see Tolkien forming them even before the worlds of The ... as Thomas Honegger aptly notes, that the Faërie Tolkien speaks of in On Fairy-stories little resembles ...
Tópico(s): Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
2018 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
Антоніна Аністратенко, Anatolіy Kotsur,
... R. Tolkien. Legendary fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating, and teaching ancient tales of northern Europe at Oxford and drew on them for his own writing. These epic stories, with their wizards and knights, dragons and trolls, cursed rings and magic swords, are as fascinating today as they were thousands of years ago. Reading them brings us as close as we will ever get to the magical worlds of the Vikings and the origins of their twentieth-century counterpart: Tolkien’s Middle Earth gave G. R. R. Martin, ...
Tópico(s): Media, Religion, Digital Communication
2023 - Bukovinian State Medical University | Current issues of social sciences and history of medicine
A. Keith Kelly, Michael Livingston,
... HIS JESUIT FRIEND, ROBERT MURRAY, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote that Lord of the Rings is of ... many years inspired discussion, debate, and speculation by Tolkien's readers. While some critics have argued for ... do invite further study. One particular element of Tolkien's mythology that has not been given full ... the human afterlife and the ways in which Tolkien presents the idea of Paradise. Critical statements made ... opinion, however, overlooks a few key components of Tolkien's overall corpus. if Tolkien's works are, ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
2009 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... a new empire in Rome and that of Tolkien's Tuor to escape match Odysseus's need to return to Penelope in Ithaka and that of the four Hobbits to return to the Shire. Kenneth J. Reckford also notes similarities between Odysseus and Bilbo in The Hobbit, as well as between the Trolls and the Cyclops (particularly Polyphemus), and Gandalf and Pallas Athena ("'There and Back Again'" 5–9). In studying the Homeric parallels in The Lord of the Rings Mac Fenwick recognizes a "Homeric catalogue" (as Tolkien described it in a draft of "Minas Tirith" ( ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
2018 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... that king of once wore. Keep them well! (Tolkien, The Hobbit 3:62) ********** WHAT REMAINS FASCINATING about above passage is not that Tolkien's initial readers--and majority of his readers ... out of Gondolin! (5:83). Subsequent publication of Tolkien's The Silmarillion (1) has revealed that tale ... hobbits in Third Age provides an example of Tolkien's concern with layering stories of ancient mythology ... a central figure in narrative of Third Age. Tolkien's text makes clear that Company and Elrond ... not. On whole, relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien's two major narrative strands--the Third Age ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2008 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... Last Ship”), traditional as to metrics, and show Tolkien’s love of archaic and unusual words. “The final arrangement,” observe editors Scull and Hammond, “groups like with like as far as possible. The two ‘Bombadil’ poems are followed by two ‘fairy’ poems, two with the Man in the Moon, and two with trolls; then The Mewlips, an odd man out, placed near the centre; and, finally, three ‘bestiary’ poems and four with ‘atmosphere’ and emotion” (18). This was the collection published in 1962. In the first printing “Cat” was number 11 and “Fastitocalon” 12, but by the vagaries of printing this resulted in their illustrations being awkwardly placed. With Tolkien’s permission the order was reversed in the ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2015 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... H. Green (bio) The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien's fantastic quest-tale, traces the maturation of ... war, it is difficult to believe that anything Tolkien does is accidental when it involves Germanic philology. ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
1980 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Children's literature
... and unfeasible.5 For use of Widsith, see Tolkien, Finn and Hengest, 40–45. For use of ...
Tópico(s): Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies
2023 - Routledge | English Studies
... Elvish writing on the blades found in the trolls' cave, and his spells are unable to keep the wolves and goblins at bay for very long in the Misty Mountains. In The Individuated Hobbit: Jung, Tolkien and the Archetypes of Middle-earth, Timothy O' ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2021 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... between the forces of Light and Darkness in Tolkien's Middle Earth. Not stated in the movie is that Middle Earth had its Lucifer, whom Sauron sought to emulate in later ages. Each side has its dominion of creatures. There are the forces of Light with its pure waters, sunlight, starlight, horses, elves, Ents... There is also the Dark side with its ringwraiths, evil felines, wargs, trolls, goblins, orcs, balrogs, spiders, dinosaurs... In the middle ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2004 - University of Idaho Library | Electronic Green Journal
... much has been written about J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord the Rings, very little attention has been paid to Tolkien's treatment Masculine types. (1) A major complication ... Aragorn, son Arathorn, who becomes at the end Tolkien's epic-romance an embodiment Arthur Redivivus, the ... follow him even to the Cracks Doom. For Tolkien himself was a more representative hobbit than any ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2002 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... the novel The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. This research used qualitative method with a library ... the novel The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. The object of the research is the courage ... topics discussion, namely: Bilbos courage to face Trolls, Bilbos courage to face Gollum, Bilbos ...
Tópico(s): Education and Character Development
2020 - | Journal of Critical Reviews
... to Ring-wraiths; others such as orcs and trolls have problems with the sun too. But for Ring-wraiths, a major feature of this sunlight weakness is that of sight and perception. This is mirrored by their strength of vision in the dark of the "wraith-world," in the land of the "Unseen" (FR, II, i, 234–35) Tolkien notes that, of all the Nazgûl, the power ...
Tópico(s): Gothic Literature and Media Analysis
2020 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... the years have remarked that J.R.R. Tolkien's Ents seem to be an especially imaginative ... Gasque counts Hobbits and Ents as "creations" of Tolkien's as opposed to the "inventions" of the ... English (OE) ent "the most dramatic example of Tolkien's imaginative response to a single word," and "one of the key examples of Tolkien's linguistic imagination" (119). In fact, most of ... a connection between the OE word ent and Tolkien's Ents, that the latter are somehow mysteriously ... and still they praise the Ents' originality.1 Tolkien himself admitted such a connection in some often- ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2019 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies
... modern nation-states, abound in J.R.R. Tolkien's world, and the commerce, conflict, and alliances ... various nations of the same race. Hence, for Tolkien scholars and fans, a study of the international ... less an examination of the international relations of Tolkien's imaginary world than an introductory course in ... it offers little of value for students of Tolkien's work. Ruane and James take care to ... The Lord of the Rings deviates sharply from Tolkien's own views. They duly note Tolkien's cordial dislike for allegory (or, in their ...
Tópico(s): Themes in Literature Analysis
2013 - Mythopoeic Society | Mythlore
... one which matches that of J.R.R. Tolkien, his (sub)creator. A more subtle linguistic joke ... I will argue, hints at Treebeard's—and Tolkien's—tendency to think of language from a ... to readers as "a large Man-like, almost Troll-like, figure, at least fourteen foot high, very ...
Tópico(s): Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
2021 - West Virginia University Press | Tolkien studies