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Demonizing the Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and the Sense of the World Wars

open access: yesHumanities, 2019
A seemingly inescapable feature of war is the demonization of the enemy, who becomes somehow less human and more deserving of death in times of military strife, which unsurprisingly helps to justify the violence against them.
Robert T. Tally
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Association between empirical dietary inflammatory index, odds, and severity of anxiety disorders: A case-control study. [PDF]

open access: yesFood Sci Nutr, 2023
Diet may be a modifiable factor in the prevention of psychiatric disorders by modulating inflammation. We observed that after adjusting for confounders, individuals in the top category of EDII score were 2.09 fold more likely to have AD compared with those in the bottom category. Also, higher EDII contributed to a higher GAD‐7 score.
Torabynasab K   +6 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

‘The sword that was broken …’: The detection of recycled iron in the archaeological record

open access: yesArchaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 1260-1274, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Although the recycling of materials such as copper and glass is widely known and generally well understood within archaeological contexts, far less is known about the recycling of iron. Iron recycling is more complex than that of other metals for two reasons.
McKenzie R. Bentley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

RESENHA DO LIVRO: METAFÍSICA DA SUBCRIAÇÃO: A FILOSOFIA DO MITO EM J. R. R. TOLKIEN, DE DIEGO KLAUTAU [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Review of the book: Metaphysics of Subcreation: The Philosophy of Myth in J. R. R. Tolkien by Diego Klautau, university professor and PhD in Religion Science under the Pontifical University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).
Parente, Hélio
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“What a tale we have been in”: Emplotment and the Exemplar Characters in The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter Series

open access: yesEducational Theory, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 782-796, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Linda Zagzebski's theory of moral exemplarity emphasizes the importance of admiration in developing ethical behavior. This essay argues that admiration involves wonder and distance and is best evoked by mixed or flawed characters; it demonstrates this through discussion of the characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and J.
Alison Milbank
wiley   +1 more source

Tom Bombadil, um personagem sem lugar: a literatura como construção de signii cações sociais

open access: yesHistória: Debates e Tendências, 2012
Este artigo apresenta algumas contribuições metodológicas para a discussão de fontes literárias pelos historiadores. O debate se dá em torno das diversas construções de significações sociais de leitores, escritor e diretor da versão cinematográfica da ...
Fabrício Pinto Monteiro
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Mediterranean resonances in Tolkien's Middle-earth [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2023
The paper examines the influences of Mediterranean heritage on the shaping of the culture of Gondor and more specifically on the appearance of its capital, Minas Tirith, as described by J. R. R.
Lukić Mina D.
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The Understanding of Evil in British Romanticism: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Ring “a Running Ambivalence”

open access: yesMilel ve Nihal, 2023
J. R. R. Tolkien, like many people, is a figure that is difficult to explain in terms of the mono-disciplinary attitude of modern academia.
Omer Faruk Kalinturk
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Review of Beren and Luthien

open access: yes, 2023
A review of J. R. R. Tolkien, Beren and Luthien, ed. by Christopher Tolkien (New York: HarperCollins, 2017). 288 pages. $30.00.
Himes, Jonthan B.
core   +1 more source

Estudo dos mitos e da construção narrativa em J. R. R. Tolkien

open access: yesTéssera, 2018
O presente artigo visa fazer um pequeno levantamento sobre as referências míticas na construção e corpo narrativo das obras fantásticas mais conhecidas do autor inglês J. R. R. Tolkien.
Emanuelle Garcia Gomes   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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