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Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
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From The Ineluctable Wave To The Realization Of Imagined Wonder: Tolkien's Transformation Of Psychic Pain Into Art, John Rosegrant
From The Ineluctable Wave To The Realization Of Imagined Wonder: Tolkien's Transformation Of Psychic Pain Into Art, John Rosegrant
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Desire, in the form of the yearning and compelling urge to create, is the topic of this speculative but compelling reading of Tolkien’s recurring “Atlantis-complex” dream, his “exorcising” of it through its use as a recurring theme in his writing, and the underlying tangle of hubris, loss, and father/son issues that might well be the source of this vision. Events in Tolkien’s personal life are aligned with events in his creative life.
To Grow Together, Or To Grow Apart: The Long Sorrow Of The Ents And Marriage In The Lord Of The Rings, Nicole Duplessis
To Grow Together, Or To Grow Apart: The Long Sorrow Of The Ents And Marriage In The Lord Of The Rings, Nicole Duplessis
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Explores Tolkien’s thoughts on love and marriage as expressed through the Ents and Entwives. Our understanding of their relationship and long sundering is enriched by considering Lewis’s thoughts in The Four Loves on philia and eros, yet in the end both Tolkien’s lived experience of marriage and parenthood and his Catholic background enhance his picture of the Ents with more realism than Lewis’s somewhat (pre-Joy) theoretical approach.