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“The Cloud of Unseeing”: Myths Transformed and Pseudo-scientific Interpretations of the Book of Genesis [PDF]
, 2019 This paper, delivered at the Tolkien Seminar (Kalamazoo, MI) on May 9, 2018, traces the potential influence of popular late 19th-century Biblical commentaries on the Book of Genesis on Tolkien\u27s post Lord Of the Rings cosmologies, in particular the ...
Larsen, Kristine
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New Zealand Geographer, Volume 82, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a description of the microbial world‐making of scientific practices and technologies in manifesting the multiple ontologies of Mycoplasma bovis bacteria during the biosecurity response and eradication programme in Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa).
Deidre Ann McDonald, Matthew Henry
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN’S CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIPLE MASCULINITIES IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Odisea, 2017 : The Lord of the Rings is one of the most widely acclaimed fantasy novels in history and since it was first published in the fifties, the analysis of the work from the perspective of gender has mainly focused on its female characters.
Beatriz Domínguez Ruiz
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The Catholic Core of a Celebrated Composition [PDF]
, 2017 Despite an undeviating opinion on the subject, his greatest work The Lord of the Rings, is replete with free-floating allegory to Christian characters.
Koch, Alexander B.
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Prophetic Promise: The Lineal Return of ‘lopp’d branches’ in Shakespeare’s Cymbeline
Renaissance 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
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thersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date, 2022 The paper focuses on an example of multiple-step reception: the contribution of the classical story of Orpheus and Eurydice and the mediaeval lay Sir Orfeo to Tolkien’s work.
Elena Sofia Capra
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Fantasy Incarnate: Of Elves and Men [PDF]
, 2016 This essay proposes the idea of incarnation as a key to unlocking Tolkien’s conception of fantasy as set out in the \u27Origins\u27 section of On Fairy Stories.
Cook, Simon J, Dr.
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Digital Gaming and Tolkien, 1976-2015 [PDF]
, 2016 ‘Tolkien’ the cultural phenomenon is far bigger than J. R. R. Tolkien the author, or even J. R. R. Tolkien the author-and-oeuvre. When Christopher Tolkien asserted in 2012 that his father’s legacy has been rendered monstrous he blamed its fate on the ...
Young, Helen
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The 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.
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Fore and Aft: Abstraction in Tolkien’s “Ishness” Designs [PDF]
, 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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