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The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Author Biography

Name: J. R. R. Tolkien
Birth Date: January 3, 1892
Death Date: September 2, 1973
Place of Birth: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Place of Death: Bournemouth, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, essayist, poet, editor

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Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
9822 words, approx. 32.7 pages
J. R. R. Tolkien's most familiar creation, the hobbits of Middle-earth, belonged only to his private world until September 1937. Before then they were known only to his children, his great friend C. S. Lewis, and a few other people. The print run of what...
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Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
6268 words, approx. 20.9 pages
The place in fantasy literature earned by J. R. R. Tolkien is indisputable. Tolkien is directly responsible for the rising popularity of fantasy literature in the late twentieth century. While authors such as Anne McCaffrey may dominate the scene of mode...
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Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien
5343 words, approx. 17.8 pages
The driving passion of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's literary life was to make his "fairystories" so complete in description and detail, so varied in character and action, so expansive in philosophy and religion, as to be "real." He was in every way the pe...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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The Fellowship of the Ring Information
3,513 words, approx. 12 pages
The Lord of the Rings Volume I - Volume II - Volume III The Fellowship of the Ring is the first of three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings by the English author J. R. R. Tolkien . It takes place in the fictional universe Middle-earth . It...


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Facts about AFI's top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 289 words, approx. 1 pages
Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998:_ Out of the 43 newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006, only four made the new...
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Peter Jackson to produce `The Hobbit'
12/18/2007: 334 words, approx. 1 pages
Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have reached agreement to make J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," a planned prequel to the blockbuster trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."Jackson, who directed "Rings," will serve as executive producer for "The Hobbit." A director for the prequel films has...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by C. S. Lewis
1,181 words, approx. 4 pages
[The Fellowship of the Ring] is like lightning from a clear sky; as sharply different, as unpredictable in our age as [William Blake's] Songs of Innocence were in theirs. To say that in it heroic romance, gorgeous, eloquent, and unashamed, has suddenly returned at a period almost pathological in its anti-romanticism, is inadequate. To us, who live in that odd period, the return—and the sheer relief of it—is doubtless the important thing. But in the history of Romance itself—a his...
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Critical Essay by W. H. Auden
855 words, approx. 3 pages
I suppose readers exist who do not enjoy Heroic Quests, but I have never met them. For many of us they are so much the most delicious form of literature that we can devour one even when our critical faculties tell us it is trash. Those who remember The Hobbit as the best children's story written in the last fifty years will open any new work by Professor Tolkien with high hopes, but The Fellowship of the Ring is better than their wildest dreams could have foreseen…. (p. 59) For a contemporary ...
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Essay Grade: 92%
The Power of Myth in Fellowship of the Ring
1,602 words, approx. 5 pages
Defines mythology as a relatively cohesive set of stories that comprise a certain religion or belief system. Considers how the power of myth is displayed in the film, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring.
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The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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A summary of The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Fellowship of the Ring: Basic Plot
1,024 words, approx. 3 pages
A basic plot summary of "The Fellowship of the Ring," by J. R. R. Tolkien.
 


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