The Book of Lost Tales
Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Collins Educational
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780048232656
Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : Collins Educational
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780048232656
Author : Julian Eilmann
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783905703399
Music plays a crucial role in Tolkien's mythology, and his tales contain many songs as well as mentions of musicians and instruments. This volume follows the path of analyzing the use and significance of music in Tolkien's literary texts and considers the broader context, such as adaptations and other authors and composers.
Author : Doug Adams
Publisher : Alfred Publishing Company
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780739071571
Presents the complete account of the making of the Lord of the Rings trilogy music score, and includes extensive music examples, original manuscript scores, and glimpses into the creative process from the composer.
Author : Walter S. Judd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2017-07-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0190276320
Few settings in literature are as widely known or celebrated as J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth. The natural landscape plays a major role in nearly all of Tolkien's major works, and readers have come to view the geography of this fictional universe as integral to understanding and enjoying Tolkien's works. And in laying out this continent, Tolkien paid special attention to its plant life; in total, over 160 plants are explicitly mentioned and described as a part of Middle-Earth. Nearly all of these plants are real species, and many of the fictional plants are based on scientifically grounded botanic principles. In Flora of Middle Earth: Plants of Tolkien's Legendarium, botanist Walter Judd gives a detailed species account of every plant found in Tolkien's universe, complete with the etymology of the plant's name, a discussion of its significance within Tolkien's work, a description of the plant's distribution and ecology, and an original hand-drawn illustration by artist Graham Judd in the style of a woodcut print. Among the over three-thousand vascular plants Tolkien would have seen in the British Isles, the authors show why Tolkien may have selected certain plants for inclusion in his universe over others, in terms of their botanic properties and traditional uses. The clear, comprehensive alphabetical listing of each species, along with the visual identification key of the plant drawings, adds to the reader's understanding and appreciation of the Tolkien canon.
Author : J.R.R. Tolkien
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0385752962
Bilbo’s Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien’s epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical, the song is both a longing to set forth on his ultimate journey and a tender farewell to friends left behind. Pauline Baynes’s jewel-like illustrations lushly depict both this final voyage and scenes from The Hobbit, as Bilbo remembers his first journey while he prepares for his last.
Author : Bradley J. Birzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 38,40 MB
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1684516242
With a new introduction by the author Peter Jackson's film version of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy - and the accompanying Rings-related paraphernalia and publicity - has played a unique role in the disemmination of Tolkien's imaginative creation to the masses. Yet, for most readers and viewers, the underlying meaning of Middle-earth has remained obscure. Bradley Birzer has remedied that with this fresh study. In J.R.R. Tolkien's Sanctifying Myth: Understanding Middle-earth, Birzer reveals the surprisingly specific religious symbolism that permeates Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium. 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.S. Eliot, Dante and C.S. Lewis. Birzer argues that through the genre of myth Tolkien created a world that is essentially truer than the one we think we see around us everyday, a world that transcends the colorless disenchantment of our postmodern age.
Author : Brian Sibley
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618391103
Includes four posters depicting Tolkien's world of Middle-Earth with maps from The Hobbit, Beleriand, and Numenor, accompanied by a manual describing the signicance of geographical evolution in the author's works.
Author : Lisa Coutras
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1137553456
In this book, Lisa Coutras explores the structure and complexity of J.R.R. Tolkien’s narrative theology, synthesizing his Christian worldview with his creative imagination. She illustrates how, within the framework of a theological aesthetics, transcendental beauty is the unifying principle that integrates all aspects of Tolkien’s writing, from pagan despair to Christian joy. J.R.R. Tolkien’s Christianity is often held in an unsteady tension with the pagan despair of his mythic world. Some critics portray these as incompatible, while Christian analysis tends to oversimplify the presence of religious symbolism. This polarity of opinion testifies to the need for a unifying interpretive lens. The fact that Tolkien saw his own writing as “religious” and “Catholic,” yet was preoccupied with pagan mythology, nature, language, and evil, suggests that these areas were wholly integrated with his Christian worldview. Tolkien’s Theology of Beauty examines six structural elements, demonstrating that the author’s Christianity is deeply embedded in the narrative framework of his creative imagination.
Author : Dinah Hazell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2015-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781606352656
Beautifully illustrated with dozens of original full-color and black-and-white drawings, The Plants of Middle-earth connects readers visually to the world of Middle-earth, its cultures and characters and the scenes of their adventures. Tolkien's use of flowers, herbs, trees, and other flora creates verisimilitude in Middle-earth, with the flora serving important narrative functions. This botanical tour through Middle-earth increases appreciation of Tolkien's contribution as preserver and transmitter of English cultural expression, provides a refreshing and enlivening perspective for approaching and experiencing Tolkien's text, and allows readers to observe his artistry as sub-creator and his imaginative life as medievalist, philologist, scholar, and gardener. The Plants of Middle-earth draws on biography, literary sources, and cultural history and is unique in using botany as the focal point for examining the complex network of elements that comprise Tolkien's creation. Each chapter includes the plants' description, uses, history, and lore, which frequently lead to their thematic and interpretive implications. The book will appeal to general readers, students, and teachers of Tolkien as well as to those with an interest in plant lore and botanical illustration.
Author : John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0007203586
'The Fellowship of the Ring' is the first part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece 'The Lord of the Rings'. This 50th anniversary edition features special packaging and includes the definitive edition of the text.|PB