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On the Symbolic Use of Dragons by Jacobus de Voragine and J. R. R. Tolkien
Religions, 2023 This article focuses on the symbolic use of dragons in several works by J. R. R. Tolkien and The Golden Legend, a popular compilation of saints’ lives by Jacobus de Voragine.
Camilo Peralta
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Demonizing the Enemy, Literally: Tolkien, Orcs, and the Sense of the World Wars
Humanities, 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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J. R. R. Tolkien – A Literary Philosopher [PDF]
Cultural Intertexts, 2015 In several of his writings, J. R. R. Tolkien has openly talked about the sorrow he felt due to the fact that his homeland had no mythology of its own.
Maria Filomena LOURO, Tânia AZEVEDO
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Diving into the lacuna: Fan studies, methodologies, and mending the gaps
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2020 With its autoethnographic tradition, fan studies research sometimes draws from similar intellectual and emotional impulses as the creation of fan works themselves, namely the perception of a lack and the need to repair that gap.
Dawn Walls-Thumma
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SELIM, 2023 In 2021, Andoni Cossio suggested cataloguing The Equatorie of the Planetis (MS Peterhouse 75.I, c. 1393) under “Section A” in Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist, by Oronzo Cilli.
Andoni Cossio
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J. R. R. Tolkien l'antimoderne [PDF]
Études anglaises, 2009 Résumé L?œuvre de J. R. R. Tolkien a été remise au goût du jour par les versions cinématographiques du Seigneur des Anneaux . Elle a ainsi atteint un public encore plus large que celui des romans, avec sans doute pour résultat d'accroître le nombre des lecteurs, mais aussi l'inconvénient que nombre de spectateurs se contenteront d'avoir vu les ...
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‘The sword that was broken …’: The detection of recycled iron in the archaeological record
Archaeometry, 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
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G. B. Smith’s “Elzevir Cicero” and the Construction of Queer Immortality in Tolkien’s Mythopoeia
thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2022 Following the death of J. R. R. Tolkien in 1973, an obituary appeared in The Times quoting Tolkien as having said that his “love for the classics took ten years to recover from lectures on Cicero and Demosthenes.” This contentious relationship between ...
Kathryn H. Stutz
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Tom Bombadil, um personagem sem lugar: a literatura como construção de signii cações sociais
História: 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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Estudo dos mitos e da construção narrativa em J. R. R. Tolkien
Téssera, 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
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