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The analysis prompt typically asks students to read a short (less than 1 page) passage, which may have been written at any time, as long as it was originally written in modern English. After reading the passage, students are asked to write an essay in which they analyze and discuss various techniques the author uses in the passage.
It and The Hobbit have spawned Peter Jackson's Middle-earth films, which have had billion-dollar takings at the box office. [4] [5] The books and films have stimulated enormous Tolkien fandom activity in meetings such as Tolkienmoot [6] and on the Internet, with discussion groups, fan art, and many thousands of Tolkien fan fiction stories. [7]
Designated for motivated students with a command of standard English, an interest in exploring and analyzing challenging classical and contemporary literature, and a desire to analyze and interpret dominant literary genres and themes, it is often offered to high school seniors and the other AP English course, AP English Language and Composition, to juniors.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the real-world history and notable fictional elements of J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy universe.It covers materials created by Tolkien; the works on his unpublished manuscripts, by his son Christopher Tolkien; and films, games and other media created by other people.
The prose style of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books, especially The Lord of the Rings, is remarkably varied.Commentators have noted that Tolkien selected linguistic registers to suit different peoples, such as simple and modern for Hobbits and more archaic for Dwarves, Elves, and the Rohirrim.
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.
Where does "Auld Lang Syne" come from? The "Auld Lang Syne" song lyrics we know (or pretend to know) today are derived from a late-18th century poem by Scottish bard Robert Burns (1759–1796).
Apart from two new essays, it consisted of a selection of essays from two earlier collections by the same editors: their 1968 Tolkien and the Critics, and their 1981 Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives. The collections have been welcomed by scholars, who have commented that the 1968 book in particular was "a milestone" in Tolkien scholarship ...