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J. R. R. Tolkien repeatedly dealt with the theme of death and immortality in Middle-earth. He stated directly that the "real theme" of The Lord of the Rings was "Death and Immortality." [T 1] In Middle-earth, Men are mortal, while Elves are immortal.
[T 1] Scholars have begun to accept fan fiction as one of multiple genres within the Middle-earth tradition. Early fan fiction was published in fanzines, followed by mailing lists and other Internet platforms. The genre accelerated with the arrival of the World Wide Web and specialised websites for fan fiction.
Foster attributes the surge of Tolkien fandom in the United States of the mid-1960s to a combination of the hippie subculture and anti-war movement pursuing "mellow freedom like that of the Shire" and "America's cultural Anglophilia" of the time, fuelled by a bootleg paperback version of The Lord of the Rings published by Ace Books followed up by an authorised edition by Ballantine Books. [8]
Middle-earth is the setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the Miðgarðr of Norse mythology and Middangeard in Old English works, including Beowulf. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythological past.
Classical music inspired by Middle-earth includes Johan de Meij's Symphony No. 1 "The Lord of the Rings" and Aulis Sallinen's Symphony No. 7 The Dreams of Gandalf. [33] Among many works of popular music that reference Tolkien's works is the Led Zeppelin song " Ramble On ", in which Gollum and the Dark Lord ( Sauron ) get up to some surprising ...
The site is also open to certain original, non-fanfiction works, [40] hosting over 250,000 such original works as of 27 January 2024. [41] A chart of some of the largest fandoms (as of March 11, 2024). AO3 reached one million works (including stories, art pieces, and podcast fic recordings, referred to as podfics) in February 2014.
Tolkien meant Arda to be "our own green and solid Earth", seen here in the Baltistan mountains, "at some quite remote epoch in the past". [1]In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, [a] began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the fictional universe.
In J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium, Gondolin is a secret city of Elves in the First Age of Middle-earth, and the greatest of their cities in Beleriand. The story of the Fall of Gondolin tells of the arrival there of Tuor, a prince of Men ; of the betrayal of the city to the dark Lord Morgoth by the king's nephew, Maeglin; and of its subsequent ...