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  2. Tolkien fan fiction - Wikipedia

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    J. R. R. Tolkien was a scholar of English literature, a philologist interested in language and poetry from the Middle Ages, especially that of Anglo-Saxon England and Northern Europe. His professional knowledge of poetical works such as Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight shaped his fictional world of Middle-earth.

  3. Medea (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Jason is made a more appealing figure by Seneca - thus strengthening the justification for, and power of, Medea’s passion. [9] Nevertheless, the increased degree of stage violence in the Seneca version, [10] and its extra gruesomeness, has led it to be seen as a coarser and more sensational version of Euripides’ play. [11]

  4. Impact of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Tolkien fandom - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Archive of Our Own - Wikipedia

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    Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta. [2]

  7. Hercules (Seneca) - Wikipedia

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    Hercules, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, but the reputed son of Amphitryon; Juno, sister and wife of Jupiter, and queen of heaven; Chorus (of Thebans) Amphitryon, husband of Alcmena

  8. 75 Seneca Quotes About Life, Wisdom and Greatness - AOL

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    Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger, known as Seneca, was born over 2000 years ago in Southern Spain and then educated in Rome. ... Many of Seneca's quotes focus on perseverance throughout life.

  9. Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    The term Middle-earth has come to be applied as a short-hand for the entirety of Tolkien's legendarium, instead of the technically more appropriate, but lesser known terms "Arda" for the physical world and "Eä" for the physical reality of creation as a whole. In careful geographical terms, Middle-earth is a continent on Arda, excluding regions ...