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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.
The scholar Tom Shippey asks a perennial question of science fiction: " What is its relationship to fantasy fiction, is its readership still dominated by male adolescents, is it a taste which will appeal to the mature but non-eccentric literary mind?
Tom Shippey in his essay does not dispute this answer but identifies and discusses the essential differences that exists between a science fiction novel and one written outside the field.
At Rivendell he, using what critic Tom Shippey describes as " slightly wooden magniloquence ", sets forth Gondor's claim to primacy in the War of the Ring.
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 ).
Readers have debated at length the extent and meaning of the seemingly racist imagery in Tolkien's writings, including Michael D. C. Drout, Tom Shippey, Stephen Shapiro.
Tom Shippey has identified the concept of Tolkien's " Light elves " and " Dark elves " as being inspired by the medieval Icelandic Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson which distinguishes between ljósálfar ( light-elves ) and dökkálfar ( dark-elves ).
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.
Scholar Tom Shippey believed that Shea was too familiar to those who had read The Lord of the Rings: he found that Shea and Flick were " analogues " for the hobbits of Tolkien's stories.
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