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J.R.R. Tolkien’s sub-creation theory: literary creativity as participation in the divine creation
Church, Communication and Culture, 2021 J.R.R. Tolkien is recognized as one of the great literary creators of fantastic worlds. The English author added to his literary work a reflection on the role of the fantasy writer in his theory of sub-creation.
María Del Rincón Yohn
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Creatio Fantastica, 2017 {"references": ["Aurner, Nellie Slayton, Hengest: A Study in Early English Hero Legend, Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1921.", "Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus, The Consolation of Philosophy, przek\u0142. Victor Watts, London: Penguin 1999.", "Boecjusz, O pociechach filozofii ksi\u0105g pi\u0119cioro; Traktaty teologiczne, przek\u0142., wst\u0119p ...
Thomas Honegger
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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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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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Translating English Fictional Names
Iperstoria, 2022 This paper highlights the pivotal role played by proper names in fantasy literature and examines the techniques employed by the Italian translators of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the translation of anthroponyms.
Gloria Mambelli
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Writing in a Pre-Christian Mode: Boethius, Beowulf, Lord of the Rings, and Till We Have Faces
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2022 In this essay, I compare and contrast how Boethius (in Consolation of Philosophy), the author of Beowulf, J. R. R. Tolkien (in The Lord of the Rings), and C. S.
Markos Louis
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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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Tolkien i wikingowie. Czyli o związkach J. R. R. Tolkiena z wiktoriańską literaturą na temat Północy
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 There is no doubt that Norman stories and myths were an important inspiration for John R. R. Tolkien who repeatedly stressed their significance for shaping his works and literary imagination. In the article Tolkien and the Vikings. On J. R. R.
Michał Leśniewski
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Dido and Éowyn: two sides of the same coin
Anuario de Estudios Filológicos, 2021 This article aims to show the influence that the Latin poet Virgil had on Tolkien’s work, especially in one of his heroines. This will be demonstrated through the analysis and comparison between the two most influential female characters in their ...
Estibaliz Sanmartín García
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Aspects of geodiversity of Palaeozoic limestones in the Black Mountains of southern France
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2016 In the southern Massif Central (France), where the scenery resembles that of Middle-earth, the geodiversity of carbonate formations (limestones and dolomites), mainly of Paleozoic age, can be observed in the nested scales of the geotopes, geofacies, and ...
Christian Giusti
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