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| | Middle-earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In the cosmic upheaval after the Downfall of Númenor late in the Second Age, the cosmology is radically changed, as Arda is turned into a globed world much like the actual Earth. | | | Tolkien's fictional ancient Earth where most of the tales of his | | | However, Aulë offers his creations to Ilúvatar, who adopts the Dwarves and gives them life and free will. |
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| | The Catholic Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien -- Recommended Reading and Online Resources |
| | In this original book about a leading literary life, Joseph Pearce enters the world created by Tolkien in the seven books published during his lifetime. | | | He also explores the social and political views that motivated the Oxford don, ultimately situating Tolkien within the Christian humanist tradition represented by Thomas More and T. Eliot, Dante and C. Lewis. | | | He explores the significance of Middle Earth and what it represented in Tolkien's thinking. |
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| | Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth |
| | “Gnomish was the native language of the Noldor, which diverged from Elfin because of their long wandering about the earth and the black ages of their thraldom under Melko (as Rúmil expresses it), whereas Sindarin is the language of the Grey-elves, which was adopted by the Noldor during their exile in Middle-earth. | | | As a scholar of medieval languages and literature, J.R.R. Tolkien brought to his fiction an intense interest in myth and legend. |
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| | Legendarium |
| | Legendarium is a book or series of books consisting of a collection of legends. | | | Tolkien's great mythological tales of Middle-earth are meant to be taken, fictitiously, as an ancient history of the Earth, particularly of Europe, from several thousand years before the lands took their present shape. | | | Set home page · Bookmark site · Add search |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/legendarium
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| | A J.R.R. Tolkien Booklist |
| | A short poem, published as a book with illustrations by Pauline Baynes. | | | Tolkien's translations of three important 14th century Middle English poems. | | | The earliest versions of the "Silmarillion" legends, written in the 1910s. |
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| | Werewolf (Middle-earth) |
| | Tolkien 's Middle-earth legendarium, werewolves were servants of Morgoth, bred from wolves and inhabited by dreadful spirits (fallen lesser Maiar or fëar of Orc s). | | | They were thought of by Sauron, who was their master, and took the shape of a great wolf himself at least once. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/W/Werewolf-(Middle-earth).htm
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| | Mellonath Daeron : What's in the History of Middle-earth? |
| | Discusses such things as the shape of the World and the creation of the Sun and Moon, the natures of Melkor and Sauron, the motives of the Valar, the nature and origin of Orcs and the real nature of Aman. | | | Extensive rewritings of the cosmogonical myth with both "Flat Earth" and "Round Earth" versions. | | | In an appendix is included 'The Converse of Manwe and Eru' together with a recount of later conceptions of Elvish reincarnation. |
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| | The Silmarillion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | He regarded The Silmarillion as the most important of his work, seeing in its tales not only the genesis of Middle-earth and later events as told in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but the entire core of his legendarium. | | | Tolkien was asked to write a sequel to The Hobbit which would become his seminal novel The Lord of the Rings. | | | He continued to work on them over the next several decades, revising and reworking his ideas, right up until his death in |
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| | Education Section Bibliography - The Tolkien Society |
| | From the Outside: The Middle Earth Poems of Matthew Anish | | | Earth: Magic and Mystery in the Dark Ages | | | Good News from Tolkien's Middle Earth: Two Essays on the "Applicability" of The Lord of the Rings |
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| | Orc (Middle-earth) - free-definition |
| | Moreover, if Orcs were in fact Elves at their core, this could perhaps mean that they were also immortal — a fact which, if true, would seem inconsistent with Tolkien's treatment of Orcs, though the books do not openly confirm or deny it. | | | According to the oldest "theory" proposed by Tolkien, Orcs were in fact transformed from Elves — the purest form of life on Eä (the Earth) — by means of torture and mutilation. | | | In Tolkien's writings, evil is not capable of independent creation, making it unlikely that the vala Melkor (later called Morgoth), who was obviously the first to produce them, could do that ex nihilo. |
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http://www.netlexikon.akademie.de/Orc-(Middle-earth).html
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| | Tolkien's Legendarium : Essays on The History of Middle-earth (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and ... |
| | If you want to learn more about Middle-earth, you want to read a book ABOUT Middle-earth. | | | This is the kind of stuff college professors write so they can get tenure. | | | (Book/(John Ronald Reuel),/1892-1973/Criticism, Textual/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh/Fantasy - General/Fantasy literature, English/Fiction/History and criticism/History of Middle-earth/Literary Criticism/Literature - Classics / Criticism/Middle Earth (Imaginary place)/Science Fiction & Fantasy/Tolkien, J. R/Tolkien, J. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973/Literary Criticism & Collections / Science Fiction) |
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| | Works about Tolkien |
| | Exploring the Magic and Mystery in the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings. | | | "Explaines the surprisingly specific religious symbolism taht permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium". | | | Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter (ed.), Tolkien's Legendarium. |
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