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Don’t the Great Tales Never End? Rímur, Late Medieval Iceland, and Tolkien

Galen Miller-Atkins

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In this essay the post-classical, legendary, and chivalric sagas (and their rímur counterparts) are explored for their mutual interdependence ...

J. R. R. Tolkien’s Sub-creative Vision: Exploring the Capacity and Applicability in Tolkien’s Concept of Sub-creation

Rob Gosselin

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How can creative people apply Tolkien's concept of sub-creation to their own work? In this thesis, Rob Gosselin argues that Tolkien’s concept ...

Language in C.S. Lewis’ Space Trilogy

Maximilian Hart

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A fascinating discussion on C.S. Lewis' approach to language and language creation in Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous St...

“Merry Old Englyn: the Familiar and the Strange in the Old English Rhyming Poem”

Patrick Lyon

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The Old English Rhyming Poem is one of the stranger and more overlooked entries in the corpus of OE poetry, often regarded as interesting but ...

Series Theory: Examining the Structure of the Modern Fantasy Epic

Elise Trudel Cedeño

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Series Theory is a new, critical approach to examining Modern Fantasy in a serial context. There are two disparate methods when analyzing fant...

Tenar the Triple Goddess of Earthsea

Susan Dillon

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“The strength of fantasy is the strength of the Self.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, Do-it-Yourself-Cosmology In 1948, Robert Graves argued that ancien...

The Reach of the White Hand: Literary Analysis of Stories of Dunland and Rohan in The Lord of the Rings Online

Patricia Lambert

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First released in 2007, The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) is a Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplay Game that allows the player/protagonist ...

Tolkien's "Vision of Faërie" in "Smith of Wootton Major"

Trevor Brierly

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Tolkien's story "Smith of Wootton Major", written in 1965, and an accompanying essay written at the same time, provide a rich understanding of...

“Völsungs rímur: A New English Translation”

Galen Miller-Atkins

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Rímur are long, narrative poems developed in the late medieval period in Iceland. While they form an important link between early medieval Ice...