Most Popular Papers *
Túrin Was Dead: To Begin With. Death, Fate, And A Happy Ending In The Book of Lost Tales
Thomas Hillman PhD
“What Ship Will Bear Me Ever Back”: Woundedness and the Western Sea
Janet Brennan Croft
Perceiving the Perceiver: “Viewing” Sauron Through the Gestalt Theory of Perception
Cameron Bourquein
Mourning and Melancholia in The Lord of the Rings
Ali Mirzabayati
Grief, Grieving, and Permission to Mourn in the Quenta Silmarillion
Dawn M. Walls-Thumma
The Wheel of Fire: An Obsessive-Compulsive Reading of Frodo Baggins
Andreas J.W. Minshew
Just War, Pacifism, and Inevitability of Conflict: Tolkien’s Changing Attitudes to War
Alexander Retakh
The Only Thriller J.R.R. Tolkien (Never) Wrote: Jungian Shapes of Evil in “The New Shadow”
Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen and Bo Kampmann Walther
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