SOURCE: Burger, Douglas A. “The Uses of the Past in The Lord of the Rings.” Kansas Quarterly 16, no. 3 (summer 1984): 23-8.
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.
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