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Tolkien and antiquarianism

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makes Middle-earth real and solid as each added fact squares with the text and lends it depth. Turner gives two reasons for the importance of the metatext. Firstly, the metatext entirely supports the world of the text, seen from inside the frame where the author is imagined as a translator. Secondly, the Appendices are clearly narrated by an editor, a literary figure who is compiling the whole book from ancient documents. Since, Turner comments, the editor treats the metatext material as real, creating a "wider text-world" than the text itself does. Turner notes that Tolkien stated that this was absolutely necessary: the secondary world has to be presented as
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margin incorporating a Cirth script that reads 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRANSLATED FROM THE RED BOOK', and a bottom margin in Tengwar, which continues the sentence 'of Westmarch by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien herein is set forth the history of the War of the Ring and the return of the King as seen by the Hobbits'.
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Tolkien stated that he began with maps and developed his plots from them, but that he also wanted his maps to be picturesque. He painstakingly constructed his characters' intersecting movements to get each of them to the right places at the right times. He drew his maps, such as the one of Gondor and
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wrote in medieval style, creating a variety of non-narrative materials much as Tolkien did. Finding a lack of suitable material, he "invented his own archaic language and calligraphy; produced his own complex medieval manuscripts, maps, sketches, and heraldry; loaded his pseudo-antique writings with
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comments that these "resonat" or "collaborat" with the main text to amplify its effect, making it more believable. Tolkien's paratexts include prefaces, notes, and appendices of all kinds; scholars including Croft have stated that his maps, too, serve as paratextual amplifiers of his narratives. The
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contain precisely worked-out chronologies of Middle-earth, supporting the narrative with background detail of many aspects of the nations and characters. Appendix A: "Annals of the Kings and Rulers" gives background to the larger world of Middle-earth, with brief overviews of the events of the first
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in his writings. Shippey comments that the maps contribute an "air of solidity and extent both in space and time which its successors so conspicuously lack". He suggests that readers take maps and the names on them as labels with "a very close one-to-one relationship with whatever they label". That
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and historical appendices to create a feeling of realism. Carl Phelpstead writes that Tolkien's "prolific creation of the languages, peoples, genealogies, and history that give Middle-earth an unprecedented (and unmatched) sense of reality is calculated to prevent ... disbelief by providing the kind
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describes what Turner calls "the huge metatext" of the Appendices as " in the least necessary to the narrative", granting only that "they have given much infantile happiness to the Tolkien clubs and societies". Turner notes that Shippey directly refutes Brooke-Rose, showing that the mass of detail
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invited him to suggest ideas for the dust jackets of the three volumes, he supplied a design using the Ring inscription in Tengwar for the first book. Although this proved too expensive, a simplified version using the inscription was used for all three volumes. For the title page, he drew a top
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paperbacks in the United States helped it to become immensely popular with a new generation in the 1960s. The book has remained so ever since, ranking as one of the most popular works of fiction of the twentieth century, judged by both sales and reader surveys. In the 2003
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Commentators have noted that Tolkien's verse has long been overlooked, and almost never emulated by other fantasy writers; but that since the 1990s it has received scholarly attention. The verse includes light-hearted songs and apparent nonsense, as with those of
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comments that readers were not expected to know the song's literal meaning, but were meant to make something of it: it was clearly something from an unfamiliar language, and it announced that "there is more to Middle-earth than can immediately be communicated".
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to do honour to his hardihood, and to grace with splendour his faithful brown hobbit-hand that had done such deeds, the phial blazed forth suddenly, so that all the shadowy court was lit with a dazzling radiance like lightning; but it remained steady and did not
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Other scholars have discussed why Tolkien spent so much effort on these antiquarian-style elements. Some of the materials suggest that Tolkien was just the editor of real materials that had come into his hands. This applies, for example, to artworks like the
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filled his written works with "illuminated pages" containing his own artwork. Sherwood argues that Tolkien intentionally set about improving on antiquarian forgery, eventually creating "the codes and conventions of modern fantasy literature".
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s pages, "pierced holes along one side to resemble the holes where the parchment would have been stitched to the binding and washed them with red paint to resemble bloodstains". Groom notes that Tolkien was not a
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In antiquarian style, Tolkien created many non-narrative materials. These are both graphic, such as artwork, heraldry, and maps; and textual, such as appendices, footnotes, glossaries, and prefaces.
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Tolkien is not the first writer to create works that stand at the nexus of history and literature, as I will address the many texts Tolkien drew from which also demonstrate these traits.
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and realism in the stories set in his fantasy world by showing that each character is rooted in history with a rich network of relationships. Tolkien included multiple
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in turn makes maps "extraordinarily useful to fantasy", as they constantly assure the reader that the places depicted exist and have history and cultures behind them.
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Tolkien's artwork was a key element of his creativity from the time when he began to write fiction. He prepared illustrations for his Middle-earth fantasy books,
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in the way that he did, giving it a history as well as a narrative, Tolkien was following in a tradition that interwove history with literature. She notes that
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Tolkien made maps depicting Middle-earth to help him with plot development, to guide the reader through his often complex stories, and to contribute to the
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is the foundation. The 'stories' were made rather to provide a world for the languages than the reverse. To me a name comes first and the story follows."
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family character. Bilbo inherits bourgeois Baggins and adventurous Took, suiting him both for life in the Shire and for the adventure described in
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Jamie Williamson identifies antiquarianism as an ancestor of modern fantasy. Tolkien was in Williamson's view following earlier authors like
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consists of poems and songs interspersed with the novel's prose. The book contains over 60 pieces of verse of many kinds, including for
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Book of Mazarbul, and to annals that seem to have been edited and annotated by different people over many years. It applies, too, to
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Sundmark, Björn (2017). "Mapping Middle Earth: A Tolkienian Legacy". In Goga, Nina; Kümmerling-Meibauer, Bettina (eds.).
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Languages, Myths and History: An Introduction to the Linguistic and Literary Background of J. R. R. Tolkien's Fiction
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who populate it. Scholars have commented that the proverbs are sometimes used directly to portray characters such as
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and plotted the protagonists' tracks, annotating these with dates to ensure that the chronology fitted exactly.
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prefaces, footnotes, appendices, and glossaries". Björn Sundmark notes that Tolkien was following authors like
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corresponds broadly to heraldic tradition in the choice of emblems and colours, but that later when he wrote
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to support the story and bring readers into his fantasy; he had hoped to include it in the first edition of
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was found to be the "Nation's best-loved book." In similar 2004 polls both Germany and Australia also found
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Tolkien was fascinated by language in his childhood, and professionally interested in it as a philologist.
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of inner consistency which commands Secondary Belief." Phelpstead states that Tolkien argued against
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An exception is Poul and Karen Anderson's 1991 short story "Faith", which ends with two stanzas of "
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and the separate routes taken by Aragorn's army from Minas Tirith to the Morannon (left), and the
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MacLeod, Jeffrey J.; Smol, Anna (2017). "Visualizing the Word: Tolkien as Artist and Writer".
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was broken with a suddenness like the snapping of a cord, and Frodo and Sam stumbled forward.
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that Bilbo and later Hobbits had edited, transcribed and annotated the text of the ancient
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enjoyed "invented languages, linguistic systems, and spelling reform", and populated
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as the different characters progress in different directions through the landscape.
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is both familiar and solid, and to give a sense of the different cultures of the
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Maps and Mapping in Children's Literature: Landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes
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Brljak, Vladimir (2010). "The Books of Lost Tales: Tolkien as Metafictionist".
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Phelpstead, Carl (2022) . "Myth‐making, Sub‐creation, and World‐building". In
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to Mount Doom (right), with dates along those routes, for an enlarged map in
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was judged to be their favourite "book of the millennium." The popularity of
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Tolkien made "daring" use of untranslated Elvish, as when the Hobbits reach
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel / silivren penna míriel / o menel aglar elenath! ...
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for the work. This places him not as author but as the last of a line of
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cried. For, why he did not know, his thought sprang back suddenly to the
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with "false maps and pseudonymous authorship", while the poet and artist
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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Tolkien created many non-narrative materials to accompany his prose.
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Among the English antiquarian authors, writes Groom, were the bishop
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that this was meant to imply that his work was "all of a piece, and
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he was freer in his approach, and in the complex use of symbols for
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Tolkien's Worlds: The Places That Inspired the Writer's Imagination
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As well as invented languages, there are untranslated greetings in
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From Appendix B: "The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands)"
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both in the main text and around it in the prologue and appendices
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Holmes, John R. (2013) . "Art and Illustrations by Tolkien". In
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J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
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throughout his life, starting in his teens, describing this as "
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devices such as "prefaces, notes, appendices, glossaries", and
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Christina Fawcett writes that by creating his fantasy world of
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in his use of maps in his fiction. Will Sherwood, writing in
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Multiple dimensions of artistry: Tolkien used his skill in
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writes that Tolkien used his pipe to burn the edges of the
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Nick Groom's analysis of Tolkien's relationship to English
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had done the same in the introduction to his 1820 novel
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and rarely-used poetic devices to achieve its effects.
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of the surviving ancient text, and helping to make the
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flourished in the 18th century, and that 19th century
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Tolkien was preceded in the use of maps in fiction by
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Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology
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Article 4. 2196: 2195: 2184: 2176: 2153: 2147:Phelpstead 2022 2145: 2136: 2116: 2115: 2111: 2092: 2091: 2087: 2079: 2072: 2064: 2060: 2050: 2048: 2047:on 10 June 2001 2032: 2031: 2027: 2017: 2015: 2003: 2002: 1998: 1988: 1986: 1975: 1974: 1970: 1960: 1958: 1949: 1948: 1944: 1936: 1932: 1924: 1920: 1912: 1899: 1895: 1890: 1889: 1885: 1882: 1880: 1871: 1867: 1862: 1842: 1790: 1788: 1778: 1766:secondary world 1715: 1709: 1663: 1657: 1644: 1641: 1638: 1636: 1634: 1626: 1622: 1612: 1610: 1604: 1602: 1600: 1598: 1596: 1586: 1584: 1562: 1538:Riders of Rohan 1490:marching to war 1478: 1472: 1398: 1391: 1383: 1375: 1373: 1354: 1346: 1344: 1273: 1267: 1188: 1182: 1060: 1055: 1053:Verbal elements 997: 991: 984: 982:riders of Rohan 978: 969: 963: 954: 948: 939: 933: 886: 880: 819: 813: 783: 777: 772: 756: 696:the frame story 688:literary forger 682: 368:Nick Groom, in 291: 281: 171: 161: 153:secondary world 133:in the case of 30: 23: 22: 15: 12: 11: 5: 6284: 6282: 6274: 6273: 6263: 6262: 6256: 6255: 6252: 6251: 6249: 6248: 6241: 6233: 6231: 6227: 6226: 6224: 6223: 6216: 6209: 6201: 6199: 6195: 6194: 6192: 6191: 6184: 6177: 6176: 6175: 6170: 6165: 6152: 6150: 6146: 6145: 6143: 6142: 6135: 6128: 6121: 6113: 6111: 6108:Tabletop role- 6105: 6104: 6101: 6100: 6098: 6097: 6090: 6083: 6076: 6069: 6062: 6055: 6048: 6041: 6034: 6031:Mines of Moria 6026: 6024: 6013: 6012: 6005: 5998: 5991: 5984: 5977: 5970: 5963: 5956: 5949: 5948: 5947: 5933: 5926: 5919: 5918: 5917: 5905: 5898: 5891: 5888:The Two Towers 5884: 5877: 5870: 5863: 5856: 5848: 5840: 5833: 5826: 5819: 5811: 5809: 5803: 5802: 5799: 5798: 5796: 5795: 5787: 5778: 5776: 5772: 5771: 5769: 5768: 5767: 5766: 5753: 5745: 5737: 5728: 5726: 5722: 5721: 5718: 5717: 5715: 5714: 5707: 5700: 5695: 5694: 5693: 5682: 5680: 5676: 5675: 5673: 5672: 5665: 5658: 5650: 5648: 5642: 5641: 5639: 5638: 5630: 5626:The Two Towers 5622: 5613: 5607: 5599: 5598: 5596: 5595: 5587: 5575: 5562: 5560: 5553: 5547: 5546: 5544: 5543: 5535: 5527: 5519: 5507: 5494: 5492: 5488: 5487: 5485: 5484: 5483: 5482: 5475: 5468: 5456: 5447: 5438: 5436: 5430: 5429: 5427: 5426: 5418: 5409: 5407: 5403: 5402: 5400: 5399: 5394: 5389: 5384: 5379: 5378: 5377: 5372: 5370:Pauline Baynes 5361: 5359: 5353: 5352: 5350: 5349: 5341: 5333: 5324: 5322: 5318: 5317: 5308: 5301: 5300: 5298: 5297: 5290: 5283: 5276: 5269: 5262: 5255: 5248: 5241: 5234: 5227: 5220: 5219: 5218: 5213: 5208: 5196: 5188: 5186: 5180: 5179: 5176: 5175: 5173: 5172: 5167: 5166: 5165: 5158:Rings of Power 5155: 5150: 5145: 5139: 5137: 5133: 5132: 5130: 5129: 5124: 5119: 5113: 5111: 5107: 5106: 5104: 5103: 5102: 5101: 5091: 5086: 5081: 5076: 5071: 5066: 5061: 5060: 5059: 5058: 5057: 5047: 5042: 5037: 5028: 5026: 5017: 5011: 5010: 5007: 5006: 5004: 5003: 4998: 4993: 4987: 4985: 4981: 4980: 4978: 4977: 4972: 4967: 4962: 4957: 4952: 4950:Old Man Willow 4947: 4946: 4945: 4935: 4930: 4924: 4922: 4916: 4915: 4913: 4912: 4911: 4910: 4909: 4908: 4903: 4898: 4893: 4882: 4881: 4880: 4875: 4870: 4859: 4858: 4857: 4847: 4842: 4832: 4831: 4830: 4825: 4820: 4815: 4810: 4800: 4799: 4798: 4788: 4787: 4786: 4781: 4776: 4775: 4774: 4769: 4759: 4754: 4744: 4743: 4742: 4737: 4726: 4724: 4716: 4715: 4713: 4712: 4711: 4710: 4705: 4700: 4690: 4685: 4679: 4677: 4668: 4662: 4661: 4658: 4657: 4655: 4654: 4653: 4652: 4647: 4637: 4636: 4635: 4630: 4620: 4615: 4614: 4613: 4608: 4598: 4593: 4587: 4585: 4579: 4578: 4576: 4575: 4570: 4565: 4560: 4555: 4553:Modern sources 4550: 4545: 4540: 4535: 4530: 4525: 4518: 4516:Antiquarianism 4512: 4510: 4504: 4503: 4501: 4500: 4495: 4490: 4485: 4480: 4475: 4470: 4465: 4460: 4455: 4450: 4445: 4440: 4435: 4430: 4428:Mental illness 4425: 4420: 4415: 4410: 4405: 4400: 4395: 4390: 4385: 4380: 4375: 4370: 4365: 4360: 4355: 4350: 4344: 4342: 4336: 4335: 4333: 4332: 4327: 4326: 4325: 4323:A Walking Song 4320: 4315: 4310: 4305: 4298: 4286: 4281: 4280: 4279: 4274: 4273: 4272: 4267: 4257: 4247: 4242: 4237: 4232: 4226: 4224: 4215: 4209: 4208: 4201: 4199: 4197: 4196: 4195: 4194: 4189: 4187:Works inspired 4184: 4183: 4182: 4177: 4172: 4162: 4157: 4149: 4148: 4147: 4142: 4132: 4131: 4130: 4123: 4116: 4109: 4099: 4098: 4097: 4090: 4087:The Two Towers 4083: 4072: 4070: 4066: 4065: 4062: 4061: 4053: 4047: 4046: 4043: 4042: 4035: 4033: 4032: 4025: 4018: 4010: 4004: 4003: 3997: 3973: 3947: 3915: 3892:The Two Towers 3883: 3851: 3845: 3826: 3802: 3796: 3774: 3772: 3767:978-0261104013 3766: 3744: 3738: 3716: 3710: 3682: 3663: 3650:978-1119656029 3649: 3631:Lee, Stuart D. 3626: 3621:978-1851244850 3620: 3598: 3579: 3561:(1): 115–131. 3548: 3529: 3512: 3506: 3483: 3469: 3443: 3429: 3403: 3379: 3366:978-1119656029 3365: 3347:Lee, Stuart D. 3338: 3332: 3310: 3294: 3288: 3262: 3256: 3238:Lee, Stuart D. 3227:Curry, Patrick 3223: 3209: 3197:J.R.R. Tolkien 3192: 3186: 3178:Harper Collins 3163: 3157: 3135: 3129: 3106: 3092: 3075: 3040: 3019: 3016: 3014: 3013: 3005:Carpenter 2023 2997: 2995:, p. 247. 2985: 2970: 2958: 2946: 2931: 2916: 2899: 2854: 2842: 2830: 2818: 2806: 2794: 2792:, p. 202. 2782: 2754: 2742: 2730: 2723: 2711:After the King 2703:Anderson, Poul 2694: 2692:, p. 118. 2682: 2678:Carpenter 2023 2670: 2647: 2635: 2623: 2606: 2594: 2586:Carpenter 2023 2578: 2566: 2518: 2506: 2494: 2475: 2460: 2448: 2444:McIlwaine 2018 2433: 2421: 2413:Carpenter 2023 2405: 2403:, p. 115. 2390: 2388:, p. 118. 2378: 2366: 2354: 2339: 2327: 2315: 2303: 2275: 2273:, p. 190. 2263: 2251: 2247:McIlwaine 2018 2239: 2214: 2182: 2151: 2134: 2109: 2085: 2070: 2058: 2025: 1996: 1968: 1942: 1930: 1926:Carpenter 1977 1918: 1896: 1894: 1891: 1888: 1887: 1877: 1864: 1863: 1861: 1858: 1857: 1856: 1851: 1841: 1838: 1792: 1791: 1779: 1772: 1708: 1705: 1659:Main article: 1628: 1624: 1623: 1621: 1618: 1615: 1614: 1580: 1579: 1480:The poetry in 1474:Main 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Index

Non-narrative elements in The Lord of the Rings

antiquarian
The Lord of the Rings
Doors of Durin
J. R. R. Tolkien
Middle-earth
The Lord of the Rings
artwork
calligraphy
family trees
heraldry
languages
maps
poetry
proverbs
scripts
places Tolkien in the tradition
antiquarianism
found manuscript
Tolkien's frame stories
Bilbo
Frodo Baggins
Red Book of Westmarch
an editorial frame
fictional translator
secondary world
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings
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