• 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    Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of...
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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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  • of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien...
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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Tolkien's legendarium, notably The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; this legendarium was enormously influential on subsequent fantasy writing. Tolkien's writing...
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    Karen Wynn Fonstad (category Tolkien scholars)
    creation of fictional atlases: The Atlas of Middle-earth (1981) ISBN 0-395-28665-4 Middle-earth, based on Tolkien's legendarium The Atlas of Pern (1984)...
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  • given that it encompassed The Silmarillion and much of the multi-volume legendarium edited by Tolkien's son Christopher, not to mention the many "further...
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