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INTERVIEW: Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

December 13, 2012 By Medievalists.net

An interview with author Nancy Brown on her latest medieval offering: “Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths”.

Filed Under: Books, Features, Interviews Tagged With: Egil's Saga, Elves, Eyrbyggja Saga, Fantasy, Fiction, Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, Heimskringla, Iceland, Laxdœla saga, Literature, Mythology, Njal's Saga, Norse, Old Norse, Sagas, Scandinavia, Snorri Sturluson, Sturlunga Saga, Thirteenth century, Tolkien, Twelfth Century, Vikings

Language and Legend in the Fantasy Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien

December 12, 2012 By Medievalists.net

There was something so real in the languages that he created, and critics wanted to find the inspirations behind Tolkien‘s worlds. Elves, dwarves, men, hobbits, and various other creatures occupied the pages of his books, but the languages he created were complex and had real elements in them. Examples of his invented languages were those spoken by the Elves, Sindarin and Quenya.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Biography, Elves, England, Fantasy, Fiction, Language, Literature, Mythology, Philology, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, Tolkien

“Far-off gleams of evangelium” : a study of how J. R. R. Tolkien’s The lord of the rings reflects the biblical “Kingdom of Heaven”

December 11, 2012 By Medievalists.net

The findings of this thesis confirm that the values of LOTR and the Kingdom are notably similar, and that the reader of LOTR does indeed derive from it an experience of what the Kingdom ideally is. But all this is “under the surface”, and Tolkien did not impose his Christianity.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Christianity, Elves, Eucatastrophe, Fantasy, Fiction, Folk Studies, Folklore, Literature, Mythology, Religious Life, Social History, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion

Talk to the Dragon: Tolkien as Translator

December 11, 2012 By Medievalists.net

When Bilbo, and the readers of The Hobbit, are confronted with the dragon, they are in for a surprise, as Smaug’s behaviour is somewhat unusual for a dragon.