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J.R.R. Tolkien
JRRTolkien
1/5 “I do not think that Frodo's was a moral failure. At the last moment the pressure of the Ring would reach its maximum—impossible, I should have said, for any
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Alex Cruikshanks
alexcruik
Good thread on worldbuilding and why JK Rowling really isn't great at it.https://twitter.com/ellle_em/status/1353357327030771712 Though I think the comparison with Tolkien isn't really comparing like for like. HP is relatively "
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Luke Shelton PhD
LukeBShelton
We all love podcasts, right! Unfortunately, I feel like the #Tolkien podcast world has a whole lot of men’s voices and not enough women’s voices. So here is a list
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Lindsay Ellis
thelindsayellis
I'm working on a Tolkien-related ep, & I'm reminded of my favorite anecdote from the notoriously conflict-averse JRR - in 1938 a German publisher wanted to publish a translation of
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𝘼𝙨𝙝 𝘾𝙪𝙣𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙝𝙖𝙢
MrAshCunningham
I wrote this because I do not like lies. I do, however, like myths. I like them a great deal, and they are not without theological significance.So here is my
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Ben Conroy
BenJDConroy
The whole YA argument is so fraught because it cuts across a billion different arguments and different people are on different sides of them in unpredictable ways So for example
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Stephen Wigmore
stephen_wigmore
Reading Tolkien's letters atm. Didn't realise before that the modern 'Fantasy' genre exists because Tolkien won the argument that 'Fairy Stories', as he still called Lord of the Rings, were
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Orphic Inscendence
OInscendence
It is well known that Tolkien's stories are full of archetypes and that all of them are perfectly written: The King, The Magician, The High Priestess, The Everyman, The Hero.
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Dr Dimitra Fimi
Dr_Dimitra_Fimi
I've been asked several times today to give my view on this so here it goes. First things first, there are links between Middle-earth and the history of Europe but
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Kavaeric
Kavaeric
Coming off the heels of JK Rowling doing a JK Rowling, it's super important to understand the source of your inspirations and acknowledge the baggage that comes with it, in
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Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS
17cShyteposter
Learning that John Gardner's GRENDEL is a vicious takedown of Sartre makes me understand why I loved it even as a young prog, and already makes even the second page
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Putri Prihatini
BlogTolkien
On 18 January 1934, The Oxford Magazine published Tolkien's poem titled "Looney". Tolkien later revised it with new title "The Sea-Bell (Frodos Dreme)", with a tone much darker and full
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Putri Prihatini
BlogTolkien
Letters from Father Christmas always fascinates me because it combines Tolkien's affinity for storytelling, letter writing, world building, and the intention to give his children the kind of childhood he
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Helen Young 🏳️🌈
heyouonline
This is only half true, at best. In Tolkien’s Middle earth, biological race is real. It is structured into the cosmology. Tolkien was anti-Nazi but that is NOT the same
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Dr. Liz Bourke (🏳️🌈 all year)
hawkwing_lb
Sometimes I think about the Lord of the Rings, and how many people see it as a triumph of good over evil. When I can't read it - books or
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Gareth Harney
OptimoPrincipi
1) A stranger than fiction Roman ring mystery thread: this enigmatic Roman gold ring was found in a ploughed field near Silchester in 1785. The square bezel has a portrait
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