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Tolkien and sees
Christopher Tolkien sees the account as similar to the Nordic legend of Ragnarök and J. R. R. Tolkien also made this connection in some of his letters.

Tolkien and Christianity
Discussion of forests and trees and their significance in Christianity and Tolkien.
A classic response to the criticism of the relations between Greco-Roman mythology and Christianity is that of J. R. R. Tolkien and subsequently C. S. Lewis, who considered that just because a story was a myth does not preclude it from also having taken place as a historical event.

Tolkien and mythological
Tolkien, who would later go on to write his novels, such as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, with their influence taken from the same mythological scenes portrayed by the Pre-Raphaelites.
All these words may derive from a shared Indo-European mythological concept ( as Tolkien himself speculated, as cited by Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth, 45 ).
Tolkien consciously based the lay on the medieval story of Kullervo in the Finnish mythological poem Kalevala, saying that it was " an attempt to reorganize ... the tale of Kullervo the hapless, into a form of my own ".
Although Tolkien said that The Hobbit was conceived separately from his mythological stories, early drafts show that it was set in that world, referring explicitly to characters and places which appeared in his Book of Lost Tales which would later become The Silmarillion.
Apart from Tolkien themes, a lot of Eißmann's work is focused on mythological and historical themes.

Tolkien and nature
The physical nature of Gondor is most prominently illustrated by the maps for The Lord of the Rings and Unfinished Tales made by Christopher Tolkien on the basis of his father's sketches, and can be supplemented by several geographical accounts such as The Rivers and Beacon-Hills of Gondor and Cirion and Eorl.
In the last interview before his death, Tolkien, after discussing the nature of Elves, briefly says of his Dwarves: " The dwarves of course are quite obviously, wouldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews?
Tolkien tried out a few different origins for his Orcs throughout his life but died before he could fully revise The Silmarillion with his final view on their origins and nature.
The question of the Great Eagles ' nature was faced by Tolkien with apparent hesitation.
J. R. R. Tolkien delved into the nature of good and evil in The Lord of the Rings, but many of his imitators use the conflict as a plot device and often do not distinguish the sides by their actual behavior.
Hostetter claims that he has never objected to Fair Use of Tolkien's works, but argues that dictionaries of Tolkien's languages ( and potentially, though less clearly, grammars, depending on the proportion of quoted to original material ), due to their wholly derivative nature, do not constitute Fair Use, and thereby violate the Estate's copyright, drawing parallels to Marc Okrand's Klingon and to the Estate's lawsuit against Michael Perry's Tolkien chronology.
The journal is dedicated primarily to the editing of Tolkien's linguistic texts, some of which were mentioned in volumes of The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien, but not published in that series owing to their specialist nature.
Below are two interpretations of the nature and extent of the Gift of Men as articulated by Tolkien.

Tolkien and I
This was something Tolkien often denied ; rather, he suggested that Middle-earth was the primary world, but in the past .< ref > Letters 183: " I am historically minded.
He wrote, in Letter 131 of The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, " I dislike Allegory.
Such distortions of Germanic mythology were denounced by J. R. R. Tolkien, e. g. in a 1941 letter where he speaks of Hitler's corruption of "... that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved and tried to present in its true light.
* The following samples presumably predate the Lord of the Rings, but they were not explicitly dated: DTS 16, DTS 17, DTS 18 – Elvish Script Sample I, II, III, with parts of the English poems Errantry and Bombadil, first published in the Silmarillion Calendar 1978, later in Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien, as well as DTS 23 – So Lúthien, a page of the English Lay of Leithan text facsimiled in The Lays of Beleriand: 299.
Tolkien wrote in one of his letters: " what I think is a primary ‘ fact ’ about my work, that it is all of a piece, and fundamentally linguistic in inspiration.
Further development of geography was compared by Christopher Tolkien to his father's notes on the creation process: " I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit ".
Tolkien also elaborated on Jewish influence on his Dwarves in a letter: " I do think of the ' Dwarves ' like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue ..."
However, Tolkien frequently disliked the idea that his works were allegorical, saying in the foreword to the 2nd edition of The Lord of the Rings, " But I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations ..." and " I think that many confuse ' applicability ' with ' allegory '; but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.
Several of the campaign modules depict lands to the east and south of the lands described by Tolkien, and I. C. E.
J. R. R. Tolkien took the relationship of his characters Samwise Gamgee and Frodo Baggins from his observations while in military service during World War I of the relationship between a batman and his officer.
This is found in the History of Middle-earth books edited by Christopher Tolkien and published by Harper Collins from 1983 to 1990, particularly in Volume I.
There is an early poem by Tolkien, entitled " Kortirion ", several versions of which can be found in The Book of Lost Tales, Volume I.
Tolkien by Tolkien scholar Janet Brennan Croft examines the influence of World War I and II on Tolkien's fantasy writings, and the development of his attitude towards war.
She discovered heroic fantasy fiction while in college,I read Tolkien when it made its first big sweep in the colleges back in 1966.
I never found any other fantasy I liked, and just never read any fantasy after Tolkien .” She graduated with a bachelor's degree of Arts, and went to work for a small publishing company in Independence and became an editor there.
In an early draft of the " Music of the Ainur ", Tolkien writes: "... Only one thing I have added, the fire that giveth Life and Reality, and behold, the secret fire burnt at the heart of the world .".
Tolkien wrote " There was something very remote and strange and beautiful behind those words, if I could grasp it, far beyond ancient English.
The elf was dubbed " Figwit " by Tolkien fan Iris Hadad ; after seeing Frodo agree to take the ring, saying " I will take it ", the film switches to a shot where Figwit can be seen standing on the far right, and Hadad's initial reaction was " Frodo is grea ... who is THAT ?!?
In my review of A New Hope I called Star Wars ' the quintessential American mythology ,' an American take on King Arthur, Tolkien, and the samurai / wuxia epics of the East ..."
: " For the moment this is held up, because I am having the matter of the etymology: ' Invented by J. R. R. Tolkien ': investigated by experts.
Tolkien is completely uninspirational to me, which isn't to say that I don't enjoy his books.

Tolkien and would
Tolkien said he would never allow Lord of the Rings, his great work, to appear in ' so degenerate a form ’ as the paperback book.
Although Ace and Wollheim have become the villains in the Tolkien publishing gospel, it's probable that the whole Tolkien boom would not have happened if Ace hadn't published them.
Tolkien was among the pioneers of the genre that we would now call fantasy writing.
** John Ronald Reuel Tolkien marries Edith Bratt ( they would serve as the inspiration for the fictional characters Lúthien and Beren ).
The parody generally follows the outline of The Lord of the Rings, including the preface, the prologue, poetry, and songs, while making light of what Tolkien made serious ( e. g., " He would have finished him off then and there, but pity stayed his hand.
As he later recalled, Tolkien thought about " adventures " that the Company would meet on their way to Mordor and considered employing " Stone-Men " as one of them ; other preserved notes mention a " city of stone and civilized men ", its siege and a " Land of Ond ".
Later that year Tolkien began the chapters dealing with central Gondor, and in his sketches first appear the beacons of Anórien, " immense concentric walls " of Minas Tirith, the idea that Aragorn would come to Minas Tirith passing south of the White Mountains, and the towns of Erech and Pelargir.
However, Christopher Tolkien notes in Unfinished Tales that the assumption Radagast failed in his task may not be entirely accurate considering that he was specifically chosen by Yavanna, and he may have been assigned to protect the flora and fauna of Middle-earth, a task that would not end with the defeat of Sauron and the end of the War of the Ring.
Ultimately Anglo-Saxon England was defeated by the cavalry of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and some Tolkien scholars have speculated that the Rohirrim are Tolkien's wishful version of an Anglo-Saxon society that retained a " rider culture ", and would have been able to resist such an invasion.
It was presumably lost at the fall of Sauron, but since the Stones are virtually indestructible, it would still be buried in the wreckage of the Dark Tower, or ( as Christopher Tolkien speculates in Unfinished Tales ) destroyed by the eruption of Orodruin.
The similarity to Atlantis has led some to conclude that Akallabêth is one very long setup for what Tolkien would have considered a delightful pun, but Tolkien described it as merely a happy coincidence.
:" Garner is indisputably the great originator, the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien, and in many respects better than Tolkien, because deeper and more truthful ... Any country except Britain would have long ago recognised his importance, and celebrated it with postage stamps and statues and street-names.
In some of his later writings Tolkien made changes which might indicate that no Vala had definite knowledge of what would happen at the end of the world, beyond that a Last Battle would be fought between the forces of Light and Darkness.
Christopher Tolkien removed the prophecy from The Silmarillion based on a 1958 version of the Valaquenta wherein his father wrote that none of Mandos ' dooms had declared whether the Marring of Arda would ever be repaired ( Christopher Tolkien adopted this passage and used it to close the Quenta Silmarillion ).
Later, however, Tolkien would write that these names were given in their own language with unknown significance.
In his later, post-The Lord of the Rings writings ( including The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and many essays published in The Peoples of Middle-earth ), Tolkien preferred the spelling Ork, evidently mainly to avoid the form Orcish, which would be naturally pronounced with the c as / s / instead of / k / in English.
Tolkien would have had to change the cosmology and prehistory of Arda, for the awakening of Men to happen earlier, for there to have been Men for Morgoth or Sauron to corrupt.
* J. R. R. Tolkien uses the king in the mountain in various places in his legendarium: the form of the Dead Men of Dunharrow, the armies and king of Númenor who are trapped by the Valar when Númenor is destroyed, and in the Second Prophecy of Mandos which states that the dead heroes Túrin and Beren would return to help to defeat Morgoth at the end of times.

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