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  2. Dreams and visions in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien was an English author and philologist of ancient Germanic languages, specialising in Old English; he spent much of his career as a professor at the University of Oxford. [5] He is best known for his novels about his invented Middle-earth , The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings , and for the posthumously published The ...

  3. The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien was initially opposed to titles being given to each two-book volume, preferring instead the use of book titles: e.g. The Lord of the Rings : Vol. 1, The Ring Sets Out and The Ring Goes South ; Vol. 2, The Treason of Isengard and The Ring Goes East ; Vol. 3, The War of the Ring and The End of the Third Age .

  4. The Shadow of the Past - Wikipedia

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    Gandalf says that the Ring must be destroyed by throwing it into the fires of Mount Doom. Frodo decides he must leave the Shire, and agrees with Gandalf that he will travel to Rivendell, home to Elrond, a leader of the Elves. Gandalf hears something, and catches Sam eavesdropping under the window. He tells Sam he will have to go with Frodo. [T 5]

  5. List of translations of The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings has been translated, with varying degrees of success, many times since its publication in 1954–55. Known translations are listed here; the exact number is hard to determine, for example because the European and Brazilian dialects of Portuguese are sometimes counted separately, as are the Nynorsk and Bokmål forms of Norwegian, and the ...

  6. The Return of the King - Wikipedia

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    The Scottish poet and critic Edwin Muir, who had praised The Fellowship of the Ring in 1954, [9] attacked the completed book in 1955 in The Sunday Observer as "a boy's adventure story". [10] He compared it to the works of Rider Haggard, and stated that "except for a few old wizards", all the characters "are boys masquerading as adult[s]". [10] [7]

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    I feel old and I’m only 17,” one commenter wrote. A second commenter agreed, writing: “I’m a 2005 baby and I feel old. What the.” ...

  8. Constructing The Lord of the Rings - Wikipedia

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    In what became chapter 3:6 "The King of the Golden Hall", Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are greeted at Edoras, the Anglo-Saxon-style hall of King Théoden of Rohan, by a process of challenges by the guards, derived directly from Beowulf; [18] [19] an early version has the guards actually speaking Old English lines from the poem. [18]

  9. Illustrating Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien accompanied his Middle-earth fantasy writings with a wide variety of non-narrative materials, including paintings and drawings, calligraphy, and maps.In his lifetime, some of his artworks were included in his novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; others were used on the covers of different editions of these books, and later on the cover of The Silmarillion.