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Women & Tolkien: Amazons, Valkyries, Feminists, and Slashers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper reports on an early pilot project that asks women who self identify as readers or fans of Tolkien\u27s work and/or teachers who have taught Tolkien\u27s work, and/or scholars who have published on Tolkien\u27s work to answer a few open-ended ...
Reid, Robin A., Dr.
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 55-75, February 2026.
Abstract This paper identifies the early‐modern conception of prophecy as a word‐magic performed across generations, a verbal promise that anticipates its own realisation in posterity. Just as Francis Bacon upheld the generative force of prophetic utterances by noting their ‘springing and germinant accomplishment throughout many ages’, Shakespeare’s ...
Rana Banna
wiley   +1 more source

Tolkien\u27s Intellectual Landscape (2015) by E.L. Risden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Tolkien\u27s Intellectual Landscape (2015) by E.L.
Houghton, John
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Elvish Practitioners of the \u27Secret Vice\u27 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In the course of his life Tolkien explored his thoughts and feelings on the role of language-invention in fiction in two key manifestos – his November 1931 talk \u27A Secret Vice\u27 and his 1954 O\u27Donnell lecture \u27English and Welsh\u27.
Higgins, Andrew, Dr.
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Genetic suppressors of the growth‐immunity trade‐off in the Arabidopsis salicylic acid‐accumulating dmr6 dlo1 mutant

open access: yesThe Plant Journal, Volume 123, Issue 6, September 2025.
SUMMARY Plants actively suppress growth and development upon activation of immunity. In turn, when pathogen attack has subsided, immune responses are suppressed again. Phytohormones play an important role in regulating this balance and the growth–immunity trade‐off in general.
Tijmen van Butselaar   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fore and Aft: Abstraction in Tolkien’s “Ishness” Designs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Though Tolkien\u27s artwork tended toward the figural, there was a period during his undergraduate years in which he created abstracts under the name of Ishnesses.
Holmes, John R
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Using linked data for data analytic literary research: Case BookSampo—Finnish fiction literature on the semantic web

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Volume 76, Issue 7, Page 937-958, July 2025.
Abstract The BookSampo Linked Data portal was deployed in 2011 by the Finnish Public Libraries and has today nearly 2 million annual users. Its Linked Data covers virtually all Finnish fiction literature but the data has not been used for data analyses in Digital Humanities. This paper discusses how the Knowledge Graph can be used for literary research
Annastiina Ahola   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Putting away childish things: incidents of recovery in Tolkien and Haddon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The article discusses the philosophy of author J.R.R. Tolkien. Borrowing concepts from Gerard Manley Hopkins and John Duns Scotus, Tolkien developed the concept of recovery, in which a person is able to interact with the world as though they have never ...
Vincent, A.M.
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Éowyn and the Biblical Tradition of a Warrior Woman

open access: yesText Matters, 2017
The article discusses the portrayal of Éowyn in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings in the light of the biblical tradition of the warrior woman. The author focuses on the scene in which Éowyn slays the Nazgûl Lord in the battle of the Pelennor Fields with ...
Dorota Filipczak
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