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PRECEDENT PHENOMENON “THE LORD OF THE RINGS” IN THE RUSSIAN MEDIA DISCOURSE

open access: yesИзвестия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2021
In the context of world globalization, a person is constantly influenced by modern media, a powerful means of suggestion, mind control. The media do not simply describe the reality and objectively record the events taking place around them.
Anna N. Mishchenko
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Movie-Induced Tourism: New Zealand and the UK, an EEG case study

open access: yesDos Algarves, 2022
This study on film tourism aims to evaluate the impact of films on the attractiveness of tourist destinations, namely on the intention of spectators to visit, leading to the following research question: Which film/country arises the greatest interest in ...
Isa Neves, Nuno Almeida
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The Lord of the (speaking) Rings [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2nd Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2020
One smart speaker to rule them all, one sensor to find them, one device to bring them all and in the Internet of Things bind them. Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) represent an interactive phenomenon that is disrupting social interactions as we knew them. The spectrum of legal issues that arises from these user-device relationships has a wide range
Riva, Gianluigi M., Barry, Marguerite
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On the ambivalence of fire in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings [PDF]

open access: yesUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series
Especially since the 1990s, the ecological significance of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work has been increasingly analysed. Despite the growing body of secondary literature on the topic, however, the problematic role of fire in Tolkien’s cosmos still remains to be
Traian-Ioan Geana
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Alternative splicing: The lord of the rings

open access: yesNature Plants, 2017
Fil: Ariel, Federico Damian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Centro Cientifico Tecnologico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Agrobiotecnologia del Litoral. Universidad Nacional del Litoral.
Ariel, Federico, Crespi, Martin
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Heme: The Lord of the Iron Ring

open access: yesAntioxidants, 2023
Heme is an iron-protoporphyrin complex with an essential physiologic function for all cells, especially for those in which heme is a key prosthetic group of proteins such as hemoglobin, myoglobin, and cytochromes of the mitochondria. However, it is also known that heme can participate in pro-oxidant and pro-inflammatory responses, leading to ...
Vanessa Azevedo Voltarelli   +4 more
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THE AUTHOR OF THE EPIC: TOLKIEN, EVOLUTION, AND GOD'S STORY

open access: yesZygon, 2021
I argue that, because God is the author of history and has a purpose for his creation, evolution has a plot and can be analyzed with tools drawn from literary criticism.
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A Comparative Study of the Concept of Pir in Two Adolescent Novels, Ashvazdangahe and The Lord of the Rings [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات بین‌رشته‌ای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی, 2023
Mysticism, as a universal concept, has different definitions and manifestations in the east and the west. But they all consider the presence of a pious and exemplary Pir necessary to guide the person in a spiritual journey. The present paper examines the
Roghayeh Bahadori   +2 more
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Memories of (Ancient Roman) War in Tolkien’s Dead Marshes

open access: yesthersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2017
The dark, malodorous wetland called the Dead Marshes ranks among the most memorable and enigmatic landscapes in fantasy literature. While one influential line of scholarship connects the passage to Tolkien’s experiences in the Great War, this article ...
Marian W. Makins
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J. R. R. Tolkien – A Literary Philosopher [PDF]

open access: yesCultural 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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