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Tolkien and Comparative Historical Linguistics
RiCognizioni, 2022 It is a well-known fact that J.R.R. Tolkien’s training as a philologist had a very strong impact on his work as a creator of languages. This paper aims to identify the influence of Tolkien’s academic background in the field of linguistic studies on the ...
Francesco Dedè
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Tolkien nadal inspiruje badaczy
Creatio Fantastica, 2017 Conversation with Prof. Andrzej Szyjewski, author of one of the most important Tolkien monographs, From Valinor to Mordor.
Andrzej Szyjewski +2 more
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Creatio Fantastica, 2018 Conversation with Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand about Prof. Przemysław Mroczkowski and his relations with John R. R. Tolkien.
Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand +4 more
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Tolkien’s Phonoprint in Character Names Throughout His Invented Languages
Names, 2018 J. R. R. Tolkien claimed to create names based on sound symbolism and invented languages. Previous studies revealed that Tolkien had his own phonoprint (tendency to use the same phonemes repeatedly for character names) regardless of his claims that they
Brad Wilcox +3 more
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Inspiracja radykalna, czyli wątki tolkienowskie w twórczości Varga Vikernesa
Creatio Fantastica, 2018 In the article Radical Inspiration, or Tolkienian Threads in the Works of Varg Vikernes, Adam Podlewski draws a comparison between John Ronald Reuel Tolkien’s and Varg Vikernes’ esthetical, theological, and civilisational worldview.
Adam Podlewski
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[sic], 2018 The paper analyzes the Croatian translation of a collection of J.R.R. Tolkien’s letters to his children – the posthumously published Father Christmas Letters (1976).
Nada Kujundžić
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Journal of English Studies, 2010 Thrushes and snails are scattered throughout the pages of A .S. Byatt’s Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman, functioning as motifs that link the main narrative with its intertexts, thematically and symbolically.
Jennifer Anne Johnson
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Names, 2013 What makes a name ‘fitting’? Or, in closely related formulations, what makes a name ‘sound right’ or ‘ring true’? From the Cratylus to present-day studies in literary onomastics, the usual answer is that a name is fitting, right, or true for the person ...
Christopher L Robinson
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2023 What do the relation between C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot, the horrifying serial murders described in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Ion D. Sîrbu’s dystopic novel have to do with each other?
Borbála SZÁSZ
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Memories of (Ancient Roman) War in Tolkien’s Dead Marshes
thersites. 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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