The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion & Guide, Svazek 2Houghton Mifflin, 2006 - Počet stran: 1256 Designed to be the essential reference works for all readers and students, these volumes present the most thorough analysis possible of Tolkien's work within the important context of his life. The Reader's Guide includes brief but comprehensive alphabetical entries on a wide range of topics, including a who's who of important persons, a guide to places and institutions, details concerning Tolkien's source material, information about the political and social upheavals through which the author lived, the importance of his social circle, his service as an infantryman in World War I -- even information on the critical reaction to his work and the "Tolkien cult."The Chronology details the parallel evolutions of Tolkien's works and his academic and personal life in minute detail. Spanning the entirety of his long life including nearly sixty years of active labor on his Middle-earth creations, and drawing on such contemporary sources as school records, war service files, biographies, correspondence, the letters of his close friend C. S. Lewis, and the diaries of W. H. Lewis, this book will be an invaluable resource for those who wish |
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... mythology , Eärendil , Ermon and Elmir , Ælfwine , and Ingwë ... that English geography , language , and mythology are all incorporated into Tolkien's creation . Thus even as Tolkien developed a mythology for his Elvish languages ...
... mythology , Eärendil , Ermon and Elmir , Ælfwine , and Ingwë ... that English geography , language , and mythology are all incorporated into Tolkien's creation . Thus even as Tolkien developed a mythology for his Elvish languages ...
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... mythology ] - so that even Sauron the terrible peeped over the edge [ as the Necromancer ] ' ( Letters , p . 26 ) . On 24 July 1938 , as he struggled to write The Lord of the Rings , Tolkien told C.A. Furth that his ' mind on the ...
... mythology ] - so that even Sauron the terrible peeped over the edge [ as the Necromancer ] ' ( Letters , p . 26 ) . On 24 July 1938 , as he struggled to write The Lord of the Rings , Tolkien told C.A. Furth that his ' mind on the ...
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... mythology , but that higher or literary mythology rests on the foun- dation of folklore . He who demonstrated that and made it a key to the darkest recesses of classical mythology has conferred a benefit on the world of learn- ing , and ...
... mythology , but that higher or literary mythology rests on the foun- dation of folklore . He who demonstrated that and made it a key to the darkest recesses of classical mythology has conferred a benefit on the world of learn- ing , and ...
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