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  2. Mythopoeia (poem) - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien wrote "Mythopoeia" following a discussion on the night of 19 September 1931 that took place at Magdalen College, Oxford with C. S. Lewis and Hugo Dyson. Lewis said that myths were "lies breathed through silver". Tolkien's poem explained and defended creative myth-making.

  3. Tree and Leaf - Wikipedia

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    Tree and Leaf is a small anthology of works by J. R. R. Tolkien published in 1964 [1] and originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes which consisted of: . a revised version of an essay called "On Fairy-Stories" (originally published in 1947 in Essays Presented to Charles Williams)

  4. Mythopoeia - Wikipedia

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    Mythopoeia (Ancient Greek: μυθοποιία, romanized: muthopoiía, lit. 'myth-making'), or mythopoesis , is a subgenre of speculative fiction , and a theme in modern literature and film , where an artificial or fictionalized mythology is created by the writer of prose , poetry , or other literary forms.

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  6. Languages constructed by Tolkien - Wikipedia

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    The English philologist and author J. R. R. Tolkien created several constructed languages, mostly related to his fictional world of Middle-earth.Inventing languages, something that he called glossopoeia (paralleling his idea of mythopoeia or myth-making), was a lifelong occupation for Tolkien, starting in his teens.

  7. Tolkien's impact on fantasy - Wikipedia

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    Tolkien was not the first author to create fictional worlds, as George MacDonald and H. Rider Haggard had done so, and were praised for their "mythopoeic" gifts by Tolkien's friend and fellow-Inkling C. S. Lewis. [19] Tolkien however went much further, spending many years developing what has been called a mythology for England, starting in 1914.

  8. The Silmarillion - Wikipedia

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    The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilːiɔn]) is a book consisting of a collection of myths [a] [T 1] and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien.It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by Guy Gavriel Kay, who became a fantasy author.

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