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The Lord of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien’s literary reputation rests almost entirely on a single work, his massive novel The Lord of the Rings. His novel The Hobbit (1937; ...
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Biography EssayThe 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...
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J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) gained a reputation during the 1960s and 1970s as a cult figure among youths disillusioned with war and the technological age; his continuing popularity evidences his abil...
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J. R. R. Tolkien was best known to most readers as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. These books are regarded, stated Augustus M. Kolich in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as "...
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The driving passion of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien 's literary life was to make his "fairy-stories" so complete in description and detail, so varied in character and action, so expansive in philosophy ...
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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...
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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...
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In the following essay, Keenan finds that the appeal of The Lord of the Rings for adults lies largely in the trilogy's examination of existential issues and the psychology of childhood.
Long be...
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In the following essay, Wytenbroek locates elements of both the biblical and the Old Norse vision of the end of the world in The Lord of the Rings.
The title of my paper is “Apocalyptic Vision ...
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In the following essay, Bettridge distinguishes between myth and allegory and shows the ways in which Tolkien created in The Lord of the Rings a mythology.
Myth, as the folklorist and the student of l...
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In the following essay, Potts delineates the various “hero cycles” and applies them to The Lord of the Rings.
Virtually countless are the heroes available to the student of mythology and...
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In the following essay, Arthur contends that Gollum is a hero in the sense that he is Tolkien's most complex and human-like character.
Long after, but still very long ago, there lived by the ba...
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In the following essay, Nelson examines the ways in which the characters in The Lord of the Rings personify various sins and virtues in the traditions of medieval allegory.
During the Council of Elron...
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In the following essay, Chance examines the effects of the characters' relative level of articulateness in The Two Towers.
Language and Being
The Two Towers, [Towers] as much as any of the thre...
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In the following essay, Chance examines the tension in Lord of the Rings between the values of the age of Germanic heroism and those of the later Christian age.
But as the earliest Tales are seen thro...
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In the following essay, Shippey finds mythic-allegorical elements in The Lord of the Rings relating to events of the twentieth century, although contends that the trilogy is not an allegory of World W...
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In the following essay, Abromaitis discusses Tolkien's spiritual optimism in his writings.
Most notable about J. R. R. Tolkien's books is the imagination that created their world. Tolkie...
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In the following essay, Bradley explores the expression of emotion in The Lord of the Rings in its most prevalent form: the love and admiration of young males for older, powerful father figures.
Love ...
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In the following essay, Reilly analyzes The Lord of the Rings in terms of Tolkien's theory of the fairy story.
When J. R. R. Tolkien's trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, appeared some seven...
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In the following essay, Ready examines Tolkien's thoughts on human nature as they appear in The Lord of the Rings.
Man is hard to handle. A free agent, often he rejects what he thinks of as the...
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In the following essay, St. Clair presents arguments against placing The Lord of the Rings as a fairy story, an epic, and a romance, and instead contends that the trilogy is most similar to the genre ...
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In the following essay, Lobdell discusses elements of Lord of the Rings that coincide with the Edwardian adventure story.
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be t...
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In the following essay, Lobdell discusses the widespread appeal of The Lord of the Rings.
A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. So, while th...
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In the following essay, Burger finds Tolkien's allusions to ancient and medieval tales in The Lord of the Rings to be intended as modernized instructional and moral stories.
Unhindered by the r...
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In the following essay, Madsen argues against interpretations of The Lord of the Rings that locate the trilogy as a specifically Christian allegory and contends instead that it is informed by a nonspe...
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Critical Essay by William L. Taylor
The Lord of the Rings is an extremely valuable pedagogical instrument for heightening students' awareness of concepts and values which are difficult to grasp...
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Critical Essay by Mary Ellmann
Eglerio! Praise them! I want to type fast and congratulate American Youth on the (J.R.R.) Tolkien Cult before it is over. Perhaps it ends today and thousands of people, ...
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Critical Essay by Donald Davie
The Lord of the Rings is one of the most surprising products of British literature since 1945, and one of the most serious. Edmund Wilson's attack on the book [se...
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Critical Essay by Hugh Crago
When Bilbo Baggins chooses to rush out of his hobbit-hole without his handkerchief and accompany some disreputable dwarfs on a dangerous and seemingly impossible venture, ...
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Critical Essay by Alexis Levitin
The Lord of the Rings focuses upon a particular episode in the eternal struggle between Good and Evil. Special emphasis is placed on the central role that Power plays ...
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Critical Essay by Gerald O'connor
There are [many] explanations for the popularity of [The Lord of the Rings] as anyone who has taught it knows. It's a great story. It has wildly origina...
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Critical Essay by C. N. Manlove
[The Lord of the Rings] came just when disillusion among the American young at the Vietnam war and the state of their own country was at a peak. Tolkien's fantas...
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Critical Essay by Henry Resnik
In recent months, The Lord of the Rings has been at the top of college best-seller lists across the country, and although the Tolkien people wince at the word "fa...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Mathewson
[At] college bookstores all across the country, students who formerly pounced on The Catcher in the Rye and Lord of the Flies are passing them up in favor of a new L...
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Critical Essay by Peter S. Beagle
The real surge of interest in Tolkien's writing has been among high school and college students. Students make strange and varied works their own, and if there...
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Critical Essay by Matthew Hodgart
Although I like reading epics, medieval romances, and folktales, for many years I could not get beyond the barrier of that first all-too-Hobbit sentence: "When...
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Critical Essay by Robert Sklar
Tolkien's trilogy … resembles the Anglo-Saxon chronicles he studied as a scholar. The Lord of the Rings is a work of art but it is also history—even...
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One of the greatest novelists of the 20th century would be the fabled John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, more commonly known as J.R.R. Tolkien. Though Tolkien wrote many books, he is best known for the epic...
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The classic works of apocalyptic literature, such as the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation are inherently religious and centered around God. As a result, most later apocalyptic literature is ...
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Chapter 1 pages 21-40: A long-expected party.
Gandalf the wizard came to Hobbiton in the Shire, for the 111 birthday of Bilbo Baggins.
He met Bilbo's cousin Frodo. The party was great, there were a ...
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Fantasy is a type of genre that allows the reader to experience a place or world unlike any they have before. Fantasy lifts all our ideas of reality, and allows us to be a part of experiences that we...
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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien grew up with a great passion for nature and words. He lived a childhood filled with the morals of the Roman Catholic Church. Tolkien's mother imbued in her son a deep love o...
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The Sumerians, located in modern-day Mesopotamia, were one of the oldest civilizations known to man, dating back well before 3,200 B. C. Separated not only by thousands of miles, but also by ...
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The Lord of the Ring has many characters to the movie. It is a movie dealing with the battle of goodness in society verves the darkness. These characters in the movie portray Christian messages or tra...
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In the beginning evil is looming over the middle earth as the dark lord, named Sauron wants to get back his ring that he has lost, because is the most powerful one of them all. If he got the ring ...
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Christopher A. Roberts
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
2,200 Words
English 1102
Preliminary Thesis
I want to argue that in the fiction of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the author deliberat...
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J.R.R. Tolkien's classic, Lord of the Rings, a trilogy of universal scope and relevance, tells the story of a quest led by Frodo Baggins to destroy the ring of power in the Crack of Doom on Mt. Mordo...
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The movie begins with a scene of the Ring which later creates the entire plot of the film. Next it shows the second owner of the ring, Bilbo Baggins, and how the current owner, Frodo Baggins a hobbit,...
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Teaching The Lord of the Rings
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The Lord of the Rings Lesson Plans contain 177 pages of teaching material, including:
The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
Critical Essay by Hugh T. Keenan
An Analysis of Tolkien
