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Sites about The Lord of the Rings
Three-part story of a hobbit’s quest to defeat evil in a land known as Middle Earth. Titles are “The Fellowship of the Ring,” “The Two Towers,” and “The Return of the King.”
Characters: Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf, Gollum, Sam Gamgee
Keywords: hobbits, dwarves, ring, wizards, good, evil
Critical sites about The Lord of the Rings
- An analysis of the presence of evil in Beowulf and The Lord of the Rings
- Text of a dissertation comparing the theme of evil in the two works.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Patrick Degallier
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- Elf and Faerie : The development of Elves in Tolkien’s Mythology
- http://wiretap.area.com/Gopher/Library/Article/Misc/folklore.elf
- Written for a Tolkien society’s ‘zine, this article contrasts Tolkien’s elves with those of folklore.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Peter van Heusden
- Keywords: fellowship of the ring, two towers, return of the king, lost tales
- Music in Middle-Earth
- http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/music.html
- Article attempts to analyze the meter and form of the music that would have been heard in Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis
- Author: Gene Hargrove
- From: Beyond Bree January 1995
- Keywords: fellowship of the ring, two towers, return of the king
- Parma Endorion: Essays On Middle-earth
- http://www.xenite.org/parma/pe_table.htm
- ” The essays you’ll find here are intended to provide some insight into the histories and cultures of Middle-earth. Each ‘page’ is a chapter in the ‘Book of the Middle Lands”. The essays are written for your reading enjoyment. They contain some speculative remarks intended to point the reader toward some possible conclusions.” This revised edition offers12 essays, as well as a section on sources used for research.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Michael L. Martinez
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- Too Deeply Hurt: Understanding Frodo’s Decision to Depart
- “In this article I will consider the natural effects of traumatization upon Frodo and how the resultant progression of disheartenment led him to depart from Middle-earth. “
- Contains: Character Analysis,
- Author: Karyn Milos
- From: Mallorn 1998 Nov, 36 :17-23
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- Who is Tom Bombadil?
- http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html
- Analysis which concludes that Tom Bombadil is the “ultimate exemplification of the proper moral stance toward power, pride, and possession.”
- Contains: Character Analysis
- Author: Gene Hargrove
- From: Mythlore 47 (August 1986): 20-24
- Keywords: fellowship of the ring, adventures of tom bombadil, silmarillion
Other (non-critical) sites about The Lord of the Rings
- At the End of the Quest, Victory
- http://www.nytimes.com/1956/01/22/books/tolkien-king.html
- Text of the January 22, 1956 New York Times review of The Return of the King.
- Contains: Review
- Author: W.H. Auden
- From: New York Times
- Author: W.H. Auden
- From: New York Times
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- The Hero Is a Hobbit
- http://www.nytimes.com/1954/10/31/books/tolkien-fellowship.html
- Text of the October 31, 1954 New York Times review of The Fellowship of the Ring.
- Contains: Review
- Author: W.H. Auden
- From: New York Times
- Author: W.H. Auden
- From: New York Times
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- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/books/chapters/rings-fc.html
- Read the text of the first chapter! Requires registration (free) to access.
- From: New York Times
- From: New York Times
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- Shadowy World of Men and Hobbits
- http://www.nytimes.com/1955/05/01/books/tolkien-towers.html
- Text of the May 1, 1955 New York Times review of The Two Towers.
- Contains: Review
- Author: Donald Barr
- From: New York Times
- Author: Donald Barr
- From: New York Times
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- Tributes
- http://greenbooks.theonering.net/tributes/files/pat_mckillip.html
- Excerpt from McKillip’s “Three Ways of Looking at a Trilogy” article, published in The New York Review of Science Fiction, August 2001, issue # 156.
- Author: Patricia A. McKillip
- From: Green Books
- Author: Patricia A. McKillip
- From: Green Books
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