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Biographies of J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Architect of Middle Earth
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Shown Left Top: J.R.R. Tolkien: Myth, Morality, and Religion
Author: Richard L. Purtill
Richard L. Purtill Here is an in-depth look at the role myth, morality, and religion play in J.R.R.
Tolkien s works such as The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion including Tolkien s private letters and revealing opinions of
his own work. Richard L. Purtill brilliantly argues that Tolkien's extraordinary ability to touch his readers lives through his storytelling so
unlike much modern literature accounts for his enormous literary success. This book demonstrates
a moral depth in Tolkien s work and cuts through
current subjectivism and cynicism about morality. A careful reader will find a subtle religious dimension to Tolkien s work more potent because
it is below the surface. Purtill reveals that Tolkien s fantasy stories creatively incorporate profound religious and ethical ideas. For example,
Purtill shows us how hobbits reflect both pettiness of parochial humanity and unexpected heroism. Purtill, author of 19 books, effectively
addresses larger issues of place of myth, relation of religion and morality to literature, relation of Tolkien s work to traditional
mythology, and lessons Tolkien's work teaches for our own lives. Richard Purtill is both a clear and commonsensical philosopher and an accomplished
fantasy writer. Discovering him is like meeting Strider / Aragorn in the
Prancing Pony Inn at Bree: we have found a Ranger, a reliable guide through Middle-earth.
Shown Left Bottom: J. R. R. Tolkien Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to
His Life, Writings, and World of Middle...
Author: Colin Duriez
Paperback, 320pp.
Baker Books
November 1992
ISBN: 0801030145
J. R. R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, and more, created an entire fantasy world complete with its own
history, languages, geography, literature, and hundreds of fascinating characters. This helpful guide, arranged in dictionary format, gives you
quick and easy access to key characters, events, and places in Tolkien's writings. J. R. R. Tolkien Handbook also contains details about
Tolkien's friends and colleagues, writers and thinkers who influenced his work, summaries of his beliefs and how they are revealed in his writing,
and a handy list of Tolkien's works. Asterisks within articles allow you to follow themes that interest you most and discover how Tolkien's life and
writing interwove.
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Reviews, Critiques & Criticisms of Tolkien's Works
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Master of the Rings
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Shown Left Top: Lord of the Rings: The Mythology of Power
Author: Jane Chance
Paperback, 2nd ed., 162pp.
University Press of Kentucky
September 2001
REV
ISBN: 0813190177
Written during rise of Nazi Germany and subsequent world war, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
chronicles a war against a Dark Lord Sauron whose mission is total domination of Middle-earth. Revised and significantly expanded for a new generation of
Tolkien readers, Jane Chance's classic guide to Lord of the Rings series explores its "mythology of power" by placing the epic within
twentieth-century context of Tolkien's life and times. By examining interrelationships among themes of power, language, and politics, Chance
argues that the popularity of this trilogy stems from its celebration of individual differences of
the marginalized and disenfranchised, typified in
the insignificant figure of hobbits as Everyman.
Shown Left Middle: Tolkien's Legendarium : Essays
on the History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 86
Verlyn Flieger (Editor), Carl Hosetter
Hardcover, 296pp.
Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
September 2000
ISBN: 0313305307
When J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973, he left behind a vast body of unpublished material related to
an imaginary world of his
fiction. Now arranged edited and published as History of Middle-earth by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, these 12 volumes offer
an unparalleled insight into growth of Tolkien's mythology over five decades. This book is first comprehensive critical examination of
History of Middle-earth. An opening easy by Rayner Unwin, Tolkien's publisher for many years, discusses publication history of this material,
while essays by expert contributors examine a broad range of topics related to the work.
Shown Left Bottom: Tolkien's Art: A Mythology for England
Author: Jane Chance
Paperback, 176pp.
University Press of Kentucky
October 2001
Revised
ISBN: 0813190207
As a scholar of medieval literature and a lover of Germanic and Finnish mythologies in particular, J. R. R. Tolkien was
"grieved by the poverty" of legend and myth in his own beloved culture. Inspired by works like Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
Tolkien's fiction relied on both pagan epic and Christian legend to create a mythology for England evident in both his major works of fiction like
Lord of the Rings and his minor stories and critical essays. Revised and expanded, Jane Chance's study examines sources and influences of
Tolkien's works as well as paradigm of critic as monster that colors so many of his writings.
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