For Tolkien, any place can become “Mordor”, when the desire to benefit others turns into the will to dominate them.
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The War of the Rohirrim is set some 200 years before Frodo and the Fellowship embark on their quest to destroy the Ring of Power.
I research fandoms, so I am particularly drawn to the levels of critical analysis and humour fans employ in their review videos and parodies of The Rings of Power.
Series two of Rings of Power is concentrating on Tolkien’s warning of a ‘war of machines’.
The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien contains nearly 250 individual works spanning more than five decades, 70 of them previously unpublished.
Tolkien was far more concerned that we take his novel on its own terms as a work of art than that we arrive at some correct interpretation.
For the 50th anniversary of Tolkien’s death, I want to celebrate some of his major contributions to the study of medieval literature.
What can Tolkien’s lesser-known stories tell us about the world he created?
The new series is part of the expansive world created by J.R.R Tolkien across several books, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit.
The Lord of the Rings paperback edition could be said to have sparked the commercial fantasy genre as we know it.
Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings TV show, The Rings of Power, takes place thousands of years before the popular movie franchise, and tells a story from deep Tolkien lore.
Not all heirs and executors take the same view when it comes to publishing posthumous work.
Linguist Alison Long helped translate a best-selling novel into the latest BBC television drama.
J.R.R. Tolkien wrote letters to his children from Father Christmas every year for 23 years. And they’re filled with elves, goblins and playful polar bears.
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Senior Lecturer in Film, Bournemouth University
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PhD Candidate, English Literature, University of Glasgow
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PhD Candidate, Medieval Literature, Bangor University
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University
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Professor and Chair of Medieval Literature, University of Bristol
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Programme Director, Modern Languages, Keele University
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Professor in English Literature, University of Oxford
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Professor of Media Cultures, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature, Co-Director, Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow
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Sessional Academic, University of Sydney
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Professor of Modern Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University