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On Fairy-Stories. " On Fairy-Stories " is a 1947 essay by J. R. R. Tolkien which discusses the fairy story as a literary form. It was written as a lecture entitled "Fairy Stories" for the Andrew Lang lecture at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, on 8 March 1939. The essay is significant because it contains Tolkien's explanation of his ...
The Book of Lost Tales. The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien 's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983. All of them were initially delivered as lectures to academics, with the exception of "On Translating Beowulf ", which Christopher Tolkien ...
On Fairy-Stories. " Leaf by Niggle " is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39 [ T 1] and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. It was reprinted in Tolkien's book Tree and Leaf, and in several later collections. Contrary to Tolkien's claim that he despised allegory in any form, the story is an allegory of Tolkien ...
J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL ( / ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn /, ROOL TOL-keen; [ a] 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings . From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and ...
"Tolkien and the Fairy Story" yes-yes: Thought 1963: Discusses The Lord of the Rings as Tolkien's attempt to restore the heroic to modern fiction, as an essential element of fantasy (in Tolkien's terms, fairy-story), and argues that Tolkien did this in the frame of Christianity. Thomas J. Gasque "Tolkien: The Monsters and the Critters" yes--
In his essay "On Fairy-Stories", Tolkien discusses the function of dreams in fantasy, stating that [7] [T 1] in dreams strange powers of the mind may be unlocked. In some of them a man may for a space wield the power of Faërie, that power which, even as it conceives the story, causes it to take living form and colour before the eyes.
Sellic Spell. " Sellic Spell " ( pronounced [ˈselːiːtʃ ˈspeɫː]; an Old English phrase meaning "wondrous tale" and taken from the poem Beowulf) [1] is a short prose text available in Modern and Old English redactions, written by J. R. R. Tolkien in a creative attempt to reconstruct the folktale underlying the narrative in the first two ...
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics. Beowulf. : The Monsters and the Critics. " Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics " was a 1936 lecture given by J. R. R. Tolkien on literary criticism on the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf. It was first published as a paper in the Proceedings of the British Academy, and has since been reprinted in ...
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