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Southwestern Oklahoma State University

1984

Byronic Hero

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Rochester The Renewer: The Byronic Hero And The Messiah As Elements In The King Elessar, John Houghton Jul 1984

Rochester The Renewer: The Byronic Hero And The Messiah As Elements In The King Elessar, John Houghton

Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature

Analyzes the character of Aragorn as an example of, and transformation of, the “Byronic” hero of nineteenth-century literature, through the addition of the redeeming and renewing qualities of a Messianic figure.

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