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Volsunga Saga And Narn: Some Analogies, Gloriana St. Clair
Volsunga Saga And Narn: Some Analogies, Gloriana St. Clair
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
“Narn”, one of the works in the Unfinished Tales, has many parallels with the thirteenth-century Old Norse Volsunga Saga, which Tolkien read and studied. This paper will assess comparisons between the heroes, women, dragons, plots, and tokens for their contribution to understanding Tolkien’s relationship to his sources, and will note Tolkien’s craft in source assimilation.
Explorations Into The Psyche Of Dwarves, David A. Funk
Explorations Into The Psyche Of Dwarves, David A. Funk
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
An attempt to explain the characters of the roles played by, and the major reasons for the creation of, Dwarves as presented in Tolkien’s three major works of fiction concerning Middle-earth. The argument is heavily biased in favour of Dwarves’ indispensability.