TIL some people think LOTR is based on true history

Why we'll never see anything like The Lord of The Rings Trilogy ...

Peter Jackson also chose to film it as if it was an actual history, rather than a fantasy, just like Tolkien did in writing it. This, I ...

why do people dislike lord of the rings? [Archive]

I believe the reason some people do not like LOTR is because they do not understand it. Generally, people don't like what they can't understand ...

As a Black Lord of the Rings fan, I felt left out of fantasy worlds. So I ...

... some of them rooted in real history. Mami Wata, the goddess of all ... Yes, some Black people had been slaves, but others had been ...

J.R.R. Tolkien's Denmark - Scandi Culture

The rolling mountains and distant peaks of Peter Jackson's Lord of The Rings Trilogy certainly don't conjure images of the flat fields of ...

I Was an Atheist Until I Read “The Lord of the Rings” - Word on Fire

And how does the story make sacrifice so appealing? The Lord of the Rings showed me a world where things seemed more “real” than the world I ...

Corrupting Tolkien and Dumbing Him Down - The Stream

The new Amazon Prime series claiming to offer the backstory to "The Lord of the Rings" is more like its Book of Mormon than its Bible.

Love and Comfort in Fantasy: Why George R. R. Martin is not the ...

Martin called “The American Tolkien.” I can see why people say that. ... real men and actual history.” A storyteller, Tolkien believed, is ...

Racism - Tolkien Gateway

In Middle Earth, [sic] unlike reality, race is objectively real rather than socially constructed. There are species (elves, men, dwarves, etc.), ...

The long-overdue serious attempt at The Silmarillion, part 1

What Tolkien's publishers asked him for, and what many people reading The Silmarillion assume it is, is a sequel to The Lord of the Rings. It's ...

J.R.R. Tolkien - The Return of the King - Falling Letters

There is so much history, so many stories, contained within this single text, and yet the tale of The Lord of the Rings can stand on its own.

The Shocking Reason Tolkien Finished The Lord of the Rings

Based on the letters Tolkien writes at the outbreak of WWII, we see ... I must say I think it is a good deal better in places and some ways ...

CS Lewis' Response to Critics of The Lord of the Rings

I think some ... The real meat comes back to him more savoury for having been dipped in a story; you might say that only then is it real meat.

Dear Tolkien Fans: Black People Exist - The Public Medievalist

The Lord of the Rings is full of Tolkien's racist and colonialist attitudes. As scholars such as Helen Young have discussed in detail, Orcs in Middle-Earth are ...

C.S. Lewis reviews The Lord of the Rings | Epistle of Dude

I think some ... The real meat comes back to him more savoury for having been dipped in a story; you might say that only then it is the real meat.

Lord of the rings vs Harry Potter Showing 1-50 of 127 - Goodreads

Frodo is not the main character in LOTR. He is a very important one, but it really is Aragorn, Gandalf, and possibly Sam, alongside Frodo that ...

On Moral Complexity in Stories (and does LOTR have any?)

The Lord of the Rings, the argument goes, is almost entirely devoid of moral complexity. Its characters are paper cutouts in a conflict that, ...

J.R.R Tolkien And Ireland – AN SIONNACH FIONN

In the published Lord of the Rings there is certainly some echoes of the real world reflected in Tolkien's imaginary version. ... see the characters, story and ...

The Lord of the Rings, the concept of 'white magic' and the thinking ...

The real question I have is on the Lord of the Rings. I have never read the books, [aside from the Hobbit], or seen any of the movies. However, ...

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien - Fantasy Book Review

The early part of the story was meant to be a follow-up to The Hobbit, until it switches tracks and increasingly becomes the war story that it actually is.

- LOTR: The second-edition Foreword by Tolkien

And still today, some people find different meanings in The Lord of the Rings... The real war does not resemble the legendary war in its process ...