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J.R.R. Tolkien: Controversial but Great When most people think of J.R.R. Tolkien, they often think of his great imagination and his world of great dragons, warriors, orcs, hobbits, wizards, dwarves and elves. But most people forget about the deeper meaning behind his stories and his controversy towards society. Tolkien was a British, fantasy, writer during the mid-1900s. Through his love of languages, religion, and country, J.R.R Tolkien’s works of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are controversial

Lion The 2016 film Lion, which was first a book called “A Long Way Home”, is a film where a boy named Saroo was separated from his brother in the train station, which leads to Saroo getting on a train taking him thousands of miles away from his family and his home. Saroo, who was only five-years-old when he got lost, had to learn to survive alone in Kolkata, West Bengal. Days after arriving to Kolkata, the city the train left him at, he got admitted into an orphanage, which later turned out to him

If the study of literature shows nothing else, it shows that every author, consciously or subconsciously, creates his (or her) work after his (or her) own worldview. Tolkien is no exception. "I am a Christian..." he writes(1), and his book shows it. Christianity appears not as allegory--Tolkien despises that(2)--nor as analogy, but as deep under girding presuppositions, similarities of pattern, and shared symbols. That there should be similarities between the presuppositions of of The Lord

I’d like to start this paper with the questions it asks and answers: What is fantasy literature? Are there any similarities between works of fantasy and myths? In order to define fantasy, one must recognize certain patterns in what we call fantasy literature. When these patterns are recognized, an enlightened definition can be realized. Sabine Wienker-Piepho defined fantasy as “the modern term for longer narrative texts which are similar to the folklore genre” (Wienker-Piepho 32). This definition

The interaction of fate and free will in the primary world is a very complex, intertwined phenomenon. However, in Tolkien’s works The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, there is a recognizable pattern that is set. More specifically this pattern regarding fate is established cosmologically through his story of creation (the “Ainulindale”), and the precedent is set for how individual choice affects the events that follow. This pattern will be used to establish how Tolkien views the

In a letter to one Milton Waldman, J.R.R. Tolkien explains that “myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real ' world.” As The Lord Of The Rings is, by Tolkien’s definition, a fairy-story, it would be correct to assume that it, too, contains “elements of moral and religious truth.” However, many who read Lord Of The Rings dispute the trilogy’s religious content

The Lord of the Rings I have chosen to write about my all-time biggest obsession, The Lord of The Rings. I will focus on the author, J.R.R Tolkien, the difference between the films and the novels, and the discussion regarding the lack of women in this story. I will also concentrate on one specific character, an elf named Arwen, and her role, as she has been accused of being of excess. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, otherwise known as J.R.R Tolkien was an amazing writer. You could even say that he was

One of history’s famous authors was and still is today, J. R. R. Tolkien. Many people know some of his more famous books like The Hobbit or his Lord of the Ring series. Within these people there are others who know that the names of all the dwarves from The Hobbit and the name Gandalf come from an ancient Norse poem titled Volpusa. An even smaller group of people know that more than just his name came from Norse mythology, in fact the model for Gandalf’s character may have been taken from one of

As an Old English professor for 35 years, it is clear that Tolkien had a passion for Anglo-Saxon history (Collier). His writings on Beowulf is critically acclaimed and shows Tolkien’s enriched knowledge of the time period and the Old English style of poetry. Even further, his love for the English culture and literature can clearly be seen in his own fictional work, mainly The Lord of The Rings. Throughout this book, Tolkien uses various Old English words for places and people in Middle-earth. Furthermore