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How to use Tolkien in a sentence

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Tolkien was more preoccupied with his invention of an artificial mythology than with character development.
If only Brian Herbert would follow the example of Christopher Tolkien and publish the notes along with other commentaries.
She designed a novelty cake using a scene from the Lord of the Rings film based on the novel of the same name by J.R. Tolkien for inspiration.
Tolkien was said to have based the battle scenes on his own experiences in the trenches of the First World War.
Most interesting of all, Oxford don JRR Tolkien stayed at the college in the 1940s while his eldest son was studying for the priesthood.
Tolkien came close to an info-dump in the second chapter of Lord of the Rings, where he explained all the wheres and what fors of the ring.
Some people sneer at a metaphorical reading of scripture and Tolkien himself was opposed to allegory as a rhetorical form.
Just this year came the news that a big wodge of Tolkien manuscript had turned up in a carton in the Bodleian Library.
The Anglo-Saxon futhorc used by Tolkien has 31 distinct characters, some of which have variants.
Tolkien was a philologist specializing in the history of the English language, and Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University.
Evil, for Tolkien, was non-being, and the destruction of evil was annihilation.
But unlike many fantasy writers today, Tolkien really tapped into mythic roots.
What is more, Tolkien is said to have signed a visitors' book for Lochstack Lodge on the Duke of Westminster's estate at the foot of Ben Stack.
Tolkien was said to have used Finno-Ugric as the basis for Quenya, the 'high Elvish' tongue he invented for his Lord of the Rings novels.
I was an active member of the Tolkien Society at the time of the first film.
For these operas, Wagner mined the same vein of Nordic myth that J.R.R. Tolkien used a century later for his own Ring epic.
If you compare the futhorc given above, you will see that Tolkien has altered some the rune shapes.
Tolkien himself, a signals officer who served in the Battle of the Somme, was invalided home with trench fever after five months.
Particularly noteworthy is The Road Goes On Forever, a songbook of words and sheet music by Tolkien and Donald Swann.
Tolkien depicts the natural virtues as perfected and fulfilled by the theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
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Tolkien taught at both Leeds and Oxford during the Michaelmas Term.
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