The cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics with pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat...
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Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of...
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alternative creation myth to the version of J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium as it appears in The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. In that version, the Earth...
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Ainulindalë (redirect from JRR Tolkien/Ainulindale)
part of the cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium, telling how the Ainur, a class of angelic beings, perform a great music prefiguring the creation of the...
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of Finnish. Scholars have identified both multiple surface-level parallels between elements and characters in the Kalevala and Tolkien's legendarium,...
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The Lord of the Rings as "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work", rich in Christian symbolism. In the cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium, Men live...
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The Silmarillion (redirect from JRR Tolkien/Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age)
set. After the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien's publisher, Stanley Unwin, requested a sequel, and Tolkien offered a draft of the writings that would...
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Middle-earth (redirect from JRR Tolkien/Middle Earth)
for Tolkien's legendarium, his large body of fantasy writings, and for the entirety of his fictional world. Middle-earth is the main continent of Earth...
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Kalevala as the Germ of Tolkien's Legendarium". In Chance, Jane (ed.). Tolkien and the invention of myth: a reader. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 285–294...
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Shaping of Middle-earth – The Quenta, The Ambarkanta and The Annals (1986) is the fourth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth...
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In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Two Trees of Valinor are Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold Tree, which bring light to Valinor...
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of a biographical-historical method which sets the development of Tolkien's legendarium in the context of Tolkien's life and times. Major themes of the...
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Gondor (redirect from List of rivers of Gondor)
Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age. The third volume of The Lord of the...
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Map of Middle-earth: Fan Cartography's Engagement with Tolkien's Legendarium". Journal of Tolkien Research. 6 (1). ISSN 2471-934X. Fonstad 1991, pp. vii...
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Morgoth's Ring (redirect from Annals of Aman)
of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien...
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sources, Tolkien's weapons are often named, sometimes with runic inscriptions to show they are magical and have their own history and power. In Tolkien's writings...
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Sauron (redirect from The Eye of Sauron)
"Necromancer" of Tolkien's earlier novel The Hobbit. The Silmarillion describes him as the chief lieutenant of the first Dark Lord, Morgoth. Tolkien noted that...
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Mythopoeia (category Tolkien studies)
his "subcreation" (understood as a creation of Man within God's primary creation). Tolkien's wider legendarium includes not only origin myths, creation myths...
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Verlyn Flieger J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2000) – by Tom Shippey Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (2000) – eds...
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attention to the rest of Tolkien's legendarium. He adds that the cover artwork, depicting dwarves battling trolls "in the style of Athenian black-figure...
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throughout Tolkien's legendarium, in the Tolkien scholar Bradford Lee Eden's view "most obviously" in the Ainulindalë, but also importantly in the culture of the...
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The Hobbit (redirect from JRR Tolkien/The Hobbit)
as Tolkien's literary theories have been seen to influence the tale, so have Tolkien's experiences. The Hobbit may be read as Tolkien's parable of World...
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Christianity in Middle-earth (redirect from Christianity in the Lord of the Rings)
origins of Tolkien's legendarium". The Catholic World Report. Retrieved 15 February 2021. Fontenot, Megan N. (20 February 2020). "Exploring the People of Middle-earth:...
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the capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings. It is a seven-walled fortress city built on the spur of a mountain, rising...
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Old Straight Road (redirect from Straight_Road_(Tolkien))
envisaged in a flat Earth cosmology, with the stars, and later also the sun and moon, revolving around it. Tolkien's legendarium addresses the spherical...
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Gollum (category The Lord of the Rings characters)
R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. He was introduced in the 1937 fantasy novel The Hobbit, and became important in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings...
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Beowulf and Middle-earth (category Influences on J. R. R. Tolkien)
Tolkien, a fantasy author and professional philologist, drew on the Old English poem Beowulf for multiple aspects of his Middle-earth legendarium, alongside...
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alternate name for hobbit-like peoples inspired by Tolkien's legendarium. Halflings have long been one of the playable humanoid races in Dungeons & Dragons...
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to enter Valhalla. In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the "level bridge" of "The Fall of Númenor", an early version of the Akallabeth, recalls Bifröst...
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Paganism in Middle-earth (section Queen of the heavens)
numerous themes in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, among them paganism. Despite Tolkien's assertion that The Lord of the Rings was a fundamentally...
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