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The Lord of the Rings Lesson Plan
52,545 words, approx. 175 pages
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The Lord of the Rings Quotes
1,203 words, approx. 4 pages
 This is a portal page for quotes from the three standard volumes of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien ; they contain some "spoilers" . For quotations from the movie adaptations, go to the page for The Lord of the Rings movies . The...




| 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 Lord of the Rings Summary
5,696 words, approx. 19 pages The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien J. R. R. Tolkiens literary reputation rests almost entirely on a single work, his massive novel The Lord of the Rings. His novel The Hobbit (1937; also in Literature and Its Times), a short, equally...
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The Lord of the Rings Information
10,385 words, approx. 35 pages
 The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by the English academic and philologist J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's earlier work, The Hobbit, but developed into a much larger story. It was written in stages...




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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...
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Sales soar for new Tolkien novel
5/1/2007: 261 words, approx. 1 pages The world still has a taste for tales about Middle-earth.Two weeks after the publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Children of Hurin," an unfinished novel edited by the late author's son, Christopher, more than 900,000 copies are in print worldwide, nearly double the original total, according...
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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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McKellen says Lear role is nerve-racking
7/18/2007: 260 words, approx. 1 pages Ian McKellen says playing the title character in William Shakespeare's "King Lear" is more nerve-racking than his recent Hollywood film roles.Singapore is the first stop on the Royal Shakespeare Company's international tour of "King Lear" and "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov."'King Lear,' I've been seeing...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by T. A. Shippey
22,406 words, approx. 75 pages
 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 War II.
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Critical Essay by Jane Chance
16,546 words, approx. 55 pages
 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.
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Critical Essay by Jane Chance
11,223 words, approx. 37 pages
 In the following essay, Chance examines the effects of the characters' relative level of articulateness in The Two Towers.
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An Analysis of Tolkien
3,136 words, approx. 11 pages
 An analysis of Tolkien's writing with a major emphasis on his classic trilogy "The Lord of the Rings."
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The Notion of God in the Lord of the Rings
2,636 words, approx. 9 pages
 Explores biblical references in The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. Discusses the novel's apocalyptic themes. Compares the novel with the Book of Daniel and Revelations.


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