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Tolkien's posthumously published poem " Bilbo's Last Song ", illustrated by Pauline Baynes, describes Bilbo's contemplation of his forthcoming voyage to the Undying Lands.
In Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil the first poem tells the tale of her " capture " by Tom Bombadil.
Among the more notable adaptations of this text are Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ernest Reyer's opera Sigurd, William Morris's epic poem The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.
The earliest appearance of goblins in Tolkien's writings is the 1915 poem Goblin Feet, also his first published work, which appeared in the annual volume of Oxford Poetry published by Blackwells.
The volume includes what W. H. Auden considered Tolkien's best poem, The Sea-Bell, subtitled Frodos Dreme.
After Tolkien's death in 1973 Hill showed the poem to Donald Swann, who liked the poem so much that he set it to music and included it in the second edition of The Road Goes Ever On in 1978.
In Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, the ideal beauty is Dulcinea whose " hairs are gold "; in Milton's poem Paradise Lost the noble and innocent Adam and Eve have " golden tresses ", the protagonist-womanizer in Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel Ami who " recalled the hero of the popular romances " has " slightly reddish chestnut blond hair ", while near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien's work The Lord of the Rings, the especially favorable year following the War of the Ring was signified in the Shire by an exceptional number of blonde-haired children.
Fíriel is also the name of the central character in " The Last Ship ", the last poem in Tolkien's poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
These papers, which make a number of comments on Lewis ' Space Trilogy, remind one of C. S. Lewis ' commentary to Tolkien's poem The Lay of Leithian, in which Lewis created a fictional history of scholarship of the poem and even referred to other manuscript tradition to recommend changes to the poem.
Tom Shippey cites this 1923 poem and its mate, " The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon " ( also from 1923, also subsequently included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ) as typical examples of Tolkien's working strategy for reconstructing philological information about sources now lost.
* Oliphaunt a poem in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings
Blackwell ’ s began the careers of many writers: in 1915 J. R. R. Tolkien's first poem, " Goblin's Feet ", was published.

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Tom Shippey in The Road to Middle-earth says how “ Boethian ” much of the treatment of evil is in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
( This time phenomenon is retold in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings when the Fellowship pass into both Rivendell and Lothlórien, where time seems almost to stand still.
J. R. R. Tolkien, in the legendarium surrounding his Elves, uses " Gnomes " as a name of the Noldor, the most gifted and technologically minded of his elvish races, in conscious exploitation of the similarity with gnomic ; Gnomes is thus Tolkien's English loan-translation of Quenya Noldor, " those with knowledge ".
This is notable because the book, consisting of a seminal essay called " On Fairy-Stories " and " Leaf by Niggle ," offers the underlying philosophy ( Creation and Sub-Creation, see below ) of much of Tolkien's fantastical writings.
" Leaf by Niggle " is often seen as an allegory of Tolkien's own creative process, and, to an extent, of his own life.
This philosophy is evident in Tolkien's other works, especially The Silmarillion — one Vala, Morgoth, creates the Orc race as a foul mockery of the elf.
From a metanarrative viewpoint, Tolkien's Arda is itself a subcreation designed to honour the true stories of the real world.
The essay is significant because it contains Tolkien's explanation of his philosophy on fantasy and thoughts on mythopoiesis.
Tolkien's love of myths and devout Catholic faith came together in his assertion that mythology is the divine echo of " the Truth ".
* 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
Tolkien: Master of Middle-earth ," which describes the impact Tolkien's writings had on him, is featured in the following titles:
Tolkien's prose is unpretentious and straightforward, taking as given the existence of his imaginary world and describing its details in a matter-of-fact way, while often introducing the new and fantastic in an almost casual manner.
Patrick Curry notes that animism is also found in Tolkien's other works, and mentions the " roots of mountains " and " feet of trees " in The Hobbit as a linguistic shifting in level from the inanimate to animate.
Indeed, Tolkien's " On Fairy-Stories " includes discussions of world-building and is considered a vital part of fantasy criticism.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, Angband ( Sindarin for ' iron prison ') is the name of the fortress of Melkor, constructed before the First Age, located in the Iron Mountains in the enemy's land Dor Daedeloth north of Beleriand.
The fortress is described in Tolkien's The Silmarillion.
* Middle-earth, in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Arda, where Endor is the Quenya name for it
Gandalf () is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Like constructed languages in general, the study of Tolkien's languages is not typically undertaken by mainstream linguists.
In Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, the Shire is divided into four Farthings, into the Fourth Age.
In general, Smaug's design is consistent with Tolkien's description save his face.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium, the Lonely Mountain ( Sindarin Erebor ) is a mountain in the northeast of Rhovanion.
" The Bard's Song-The Hobbit " is a song by the Power metal band Blind Guardian, featured in their 1992 album Somewhere Far Beyond which is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.

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In any case, Ace was forced to cease publishing the unauthorized edition and to pay Tolkien for their sales following a grass-roots campaign by Tolkien's U. S. fans.
But Leaf by Niggle can also be interpreted as an illustration of Tolkien's religious philosophy of creation and sub-creation.
They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but his surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
* Tolkien on Fairy-Stories, by Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson: " A new expanded edition of Tolkien's most famous, and most important essay, which defined his conception of fantasy as a literary form ..."( 2008 ) ISBN 978-0-00-724466-9.
Tolkien's opinion was adopted by another Christian writer, C. S. Lewis, in their conversations: " Tolkien explained to Lewis that the story of Christ was the true myth at the very heart of history and at the very root of reality.
As Janet Croft notes, Tolkien's literary reaction to war at this time differed from most post-war writers by eschewing irony as a method for distancing events and instead using mythology to mediate his experiences.
The Hobbit makes a warning against repeating the tragedies of World War I, and Tolkien's attitude as a veteran may well be summed up by Bilbo's comment: " Victory after all, I suppose!
A soundtrack for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings was composed by Craig Russell for the San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony.
Tolkien's The Silmarillion, which also contains a creation scene driven by the effect of music.
Tolkien's book The Silmarillion, by Mick Pointer, Steve Rothery, and others.
Tolkien's concept of hobbits, in turn, seems to have been inspired by Edward Wyke Smith's 1927 children's book The Marvellous Land of Snergs, and by Sinclair Lewis's 1922 novel Babbitt.
Gondor is a fictional kingdom in J. R. R. Tolkien's writings, described as the greatest realm of Men in the west of Middle-earth by the end of the Third Age.
Tolkien's perception of further history of the kingdom is illustrated by The New Shadow, an experimental story that he abandoned, set during the reign of Eldarion.
Tolkien noted that the capital Minas Tirith was situated on a latitude comparable to that of Venice, and the total area of Gondor as represented on Tolkien's maps was estimated by Karen Wynn Fonstad at.
; Enedhwaith: The wide land between rivers Isen and Greyflood, stated in different Tolkien's writings either to have been held by Gondor and Arnor jointly, to have been a part of the South-kingdom, or to have belonged to neither of them.
A special position within the South-kingdom belonged to the Prince of Dol Amroth, who ruled over a land in Belfalas but was subject to the king ; according to one of Tolkien's statements, the title was granted to the first Prince by Elendil because of their kinship.
Of other Gondor posts, in Tolkien's writings appear " ministers of the Crown concerned with ' intelligence '" who surveyed the palantíri ( see below ); Captain of the Hosts, borne by future King Falastur during the reign of his father ; and Captain of Gondor and Captain-General of Gondor applied to Faramir and Boromir respectively, with the former title also given to Eärnur when he commanded the Gondor army in Arthedain prior to his crowning.
In the period of counterculture in the Western World of the 1960s and 1970s, a commune called Maos Lyst ( Mao's Delight ) was founded in Denmark in 1968, its inhabitants replacing their surnames with Kløvedal, Danish for Rivendell, inspired by Tolkien's Elven outpost.

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