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Online Articles of Interest

So You Want to Write a Paper on Tolkien (or His Works)?

The ideas behind the books

Are You on the Outside Looking In...Or the Inside Looking Out?

Hobbit Names and Naming Conventions

Modern and Medieval aspects of Tolkien's literature

Philosophy and the One Ring

The Catholic influence in JRR Tolkien's mythology

The Kalevala - its influence on Tolkien

The Rohirrim and the Anglo-Saxons – an overview

To Show Their Quality: Heroism in Beowulf and The Hobbit

Tolkien, Friendship and the Four Loves

Tolkien, mythology and numerology

Tolkien: the great sub-creator of Middle-earth

World War 1 And Its Impact on Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings

Bilbo's Party Guests

Philosophy & Tolkien: A Mind of Metal and Wheels

Philosophy & Tolkien: The Many Faces of Evil in Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' (part II)

Philosophy & Tolkien: The Mystery of the Ents and the Entwives, lovers of woods and meadows

Philosophy & Tolkien: The Many Faces of Evil in Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings' (part I)

The Greatest Gifts of All

The Lord of the Rings is NOT an analogy!

The World Was Young In Durin's Day: Analysis of the Dwarvish Hymn for Durin the Deathless

The Silmarillion

1. Ainulindalë – The Music of the Ainur

10. Of the darkening of Valinor

3. Of the Beginning of Days

4. Of Aulë and Yavanna

5. Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor

6. Of Thingol and Melian

7. Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië

8. Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor

9. Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor

Ch 13 Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of the Valinor

The Ineluctable Wave - a classical comparison of Númenor and Atlantis

Ulmo and Poseidon