Epic World-Building: Names and Cultures in Dune by Kara Kennedy

“…Rather than creating new languages, as J. R. R. Tolkien does in The Lord of the Rings, Frank Herbert accomplishes his world-building in Dune by choosing existing names that evoke a recognizable medieval, feudal setting and depict a desert planet inhabited by a quasi-Arabic and Islamic tribal people. …”
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Wokół definicji fantastyki miejskiej by Sarai Mannolini-Winwood

“…Fantasy literature in the 1980s underwent a revisionist change, which resulted in the emergence of a number of subgenres that challenged the dominant Tolkien model of fantasy writing. One such subgenre, which continues in popularity today, is urban fantasy. …”
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Trees as Setting and as Characters in the Novel the Lord of the Rings : Two Towers by EMHA, Adhani Juniasyaroh

“…Even today, there are only few researches on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers, which is very phenomenal; especially about the trees, whereas these characters are very unique because they are not merely setting but also characters which take part on the protagonists’ success story to reach the victory over the antagonists. …”

Translations from Beowulf by C.S. Lewis by Horobin, S

“…As well as investigating the linguistic choices apparent in his translations, the article compares these with another contemporary translation, that by Lewis’s friend and colleague in the Oxford English Faculty, J.R.R. Tolkien. The remainder of the essay considers the significance of these translations for our understanding of Lewis’s knowledge of, and attitude towards, the poem, and a reconsideration of the importance of Beowulf for Lewis the scholar, teacher and writer.…”

Voyage scientifique dans le jeu de rôle en ligne by Claudie Voisenat

“…The gamer evolves in a medieval-fantastic world, inspired by Tolkien, in which archaeology plays an unforeseen role. …”
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Open Strategy in a Smart City by Suvi Einola, Marko Kohtamäki, Harri Hietikko

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Communicative dynamism and prosodic prominence in presentation sentences with initial rhematic subjects by Martin Adam, Irena Headlandová Kalischová

“…For the purpose of the investigation selected chapters from Tolkien’s The Hobbit are used.…”
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Maximum visibility by Vanessa Lopes Lourenço Hanes

“…This paper presents three cases from Brazil that reveal different facets of this curious market dynamic: (1) an Agatha Christie novel in which the translator, Clarice Lispector, figures as prominently as the author in the paratext; (2) a high-profile Brazilian Portuguese version of Tolkien’s Beowulf, i.e., a market-motivated revivification of indirect translation; and, (3) Tradutores, a series by the publishing house Hedra that showcases translations by renowned Lusophone writers. …”
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Teratonymy: The Weird and Monstrous Names of HP Lovecraft by Christopher L Robinson

“…Abstract Lovecraft's teratonyms are monstrous inventions that estrange the sound patterns of English and obscure the kinds of meaning traditionally associated with literary onomastics. J.R.R. Tolkien's notion of linguistic style provides a useful concept to examine how these names play upon a distance from and proximity to English, so as to give rise to specific historical and cultural connotations. …”
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Familiar Categories and Documentary Forms: Readers’ Perspectives by Amanda Cossham

“…Drawing on a card sorting activity conducted around a set of cards of documents related to The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, the paper discusses the significance of familiar categories as cultural markers (closely linked to particular rhetorical genres). …”
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Hobbits, Ents, and Dæmons: Ecocritical Thought Embodied in the Fantastic by Gry Ulstein

“…This paper investigates the occurrence of ecocritical thought in two canonical fantasy epics, The Lord of The Rings (1954–1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien and His Dark Materials (1995–2000) by Philip Pullman. …”
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Ungoliant, Ella-laraña y la Acromántula: una revisión del mito de Aracné desde lo siniestro by Encarnación Alonso Valero

“…Este trabajo se propone argumentar que las Grandes Arañas que pueblan la Tierra Media en El señor de los anillos y El Silmarillion, de Tolkien (y posteriormente, en directa herencia de ellas, las acromántulas que aparecen en la serie Harry Potter) constituyen una revisión del mito de Aracné desde la moderna categoría de lo siniestro, una de las más importantes del arte y la literatura en la primera mitad del siglo XX, incoada en el horizonte romántico y que tuvo su culminación teórica en la reflexión de Freud.…”
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Do you believe in magic? The Potency of the Fantasy Genre by Stephan Matthias

“…Furthermore, through a consideration of texts by Tolkien, and an exploration of contemporary novels (Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant; Terry Brooks The Sword of Shannara trilogy) and other franchises (Star Wars), it demonstrates how the generic boundaries should be read outside of the traditional limitations, and how these texts, coupled with contemporary technology, offer a freer range to imagination and make fantasy a potent critical force…”
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God, elvish, and secondary creation by Pinsent, A

“… <p style="text-align:justify;">According to the theological worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, the principal work of a Christian is to know, love, and serve God. …”

Ruxandra Cesereanu, "Lumi de ficțiune, lumi de realitate", București: Editura Tracus Arte, 2022, 354p. by Paul Mihai PARASCHIV

“…Eliot, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, António Lobo Antunes, Roberto Bolaño, Will Self, Marie Darrieussecq, Leonid Dimov, Mircea Cărtărescu, Andrei Codrescu, Sei Shonagon, Franz Werfel, Ion D. …”
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Romantismus, osvícenství a fantastický hrdina by Nikola Balaš

“…Admittedly works of C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien or R. E. Howard share distinctive romantic elements – enmity toward modernity, longing for traditional society or love for the nature. …”
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Building an Artificial Language from Scratch by Juan Coste Delvecchio, Joel Weeks, Caleb Unold

“…Dothraki and High Valyrian in Game of Thrones, and Quenya in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings are some well-known conlangs. …”
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Ruxandra Cesereanu, "Lumi de ficțiune, lumi de realitate", București: Editura Tracus Arte, 2022, 354p. by Paul Mihai PARASCHIV

“…Eliot, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, António Lobo Antunes, Roberto Bolaño, Will Self, Marie Darrieussecq, Leonid Dimov, Mircea Cărtărescu, Andrei Codrescu, Sei Shonagon, Franz Werfel, Ion D. …”
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THE COMMON HUMANE SHARING IN DIFFERENT MYTHOLOGIES OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS AND 1984 by Aslı Bülbül CANDAŞ

“…John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's collection The Silmarillion, which is a utopic creation myth of Middle-earth, Valinor, Numenor and Beleriand, and his novel The Lord of the Rings, which is a saga taking place only in Middle-earth, seem to be completely irrelevant to George Orwell's dystopian world 1984 at first view but when they are examined in detail, two striking common points would be obvious that these myths support the idea of cultural variety's importance and they consist of a war against cultural dominance. …”
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O símbolo dos olhos através do “paradigma indiciário” de Carlo Ginzburg by Emanuelle Garcia Gomes

“… Esse trabalho teve como intuito primeiro estudar o paradigma de um saber indiciário proposto por Carlo Ginzburg em sua obra de título Mitos, emblemas e sinais onde propõe articular um método de conhecimento cuja força está na observação do pormenor que pode ser revelado, mais do que apenas uma dedução sobre algum aspecto investigativo, para experimentar a metodologia usada pelo autor em um exercício de comparação do símbolo dos olhos como signo de representatividade e significado em duas mitologias de sociedades antigas, a egípcia e a nórdica, e uma literatura do século XX, a obra do inglês J. R. R. Tolkien, “O Senhor dos Anéis”.  …”
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