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  2. Quests in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Allegorical portrait of a knight reaching his princess at the end of his quest.In the background, he kills a dragon. Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1515–20. J. R. R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English Roman Catholic writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, both set in Middle-earth.

  3. Lonely Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Pearce states further that Bilbo's quest to the mountain parallels Frodo's quest to a different mountain, Mount Doom, which he calls "a mirror of Everyman's journey through life". [ 6 ] Two scholars of literature, Paul Kocher and Randel Helms analyse Bilbo's journey to the lonely mountain, describing it as the goal of his quest and the point at ...

  4. Origin of Australia’s 1,400-year-old mysterious earth rings ...

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    Mysterious ancient earth rings located on the outskirts of Melbourne were made by Australia’s Aboriginal Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people hundreds of years ago, a new study finally reveals.. The ...

  5. Rings of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The Ordovician Period was the geologic period and system that the Earth was in when the rings are believed to have formed. The Ordovician spanned from 486.85 million years ago to 443.1 million years ago. During this period, an event known as the Ordovician meteor event occurred, when a high level of L chondrite meteorites hit Earth. The ...

  6. Luck and fate in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    Ring was destroyed, Quest succeeded Free will and fate The Tolkien scholar Helen Lasseter Freeh notes that the longer version of the tale of Túrin Turambar in Unfinished Tales (the Narn i Hîn Húrin [ T 8 ] ) contains a dialogue between the Dark Lord Morgoth , who is a fallen Vala, and the heroic but mortal Man Húrin about fate and providence.

  7. Eärendil and Elwing - Wikipedia

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    [T 4] Elros chose mortality, the gift of Men, founding the line of the Kings of Númenor; [T 4] his descendant at the time of The War of the Ring was Aragorn, one of the Fellowship of the Ring, who married Elrond's daughter, Arwen. [T 5] The Valar marched into the north of Middle-earth and attacked the Throne of Morgoth in the War of Wrath ...

  8. Ancestry as guide to character in Tolkien's legendarium

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    In his 2022 book Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth, Robert Stuart on the other hand describes Tolkien's emphasis on Aragorn's ancestry as "aristocratic racism", likening Tolkien's implied views on race to those of the French 19th century diplomat Arthur de Gobineau, which he characterises as "anti-democratic, anti-national and, above ...

  9. Beowulf and Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    A devout Roman Catholic, he described The Lord of the Rings as "a fundamentally religious and Catholic work", rich in Christian symbolism. [ 5 ] The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey , like Tolkien a philologist, called Beowulf the single work that most strongly influenced Tolkien, out of the many other sources that he used. [ 6 ]