After The Hobbit, the tale centered on Bilbo Baggins published in 1937, Tolkien had initially planned a sequel with a giant, not a dragon, as the foe.Įarly outlines had a giant named Tree Beard capturing Gandalf (as Saruman later would). Bilbo and Frodo Baggins live at Bag End, for instance, which was the real name of the Tudor home, dated to 1413, of Tolkien’s aunt Jane Neave, in the village of Dormston in Worcestershire, England.ĥ.

There’s a bit of Tolkien’s real life in LoTR too. Tolkien also plundered Norse mythology for names - Bifur, Bombur, Dain, Durin, Dwalin, Fili, Fundin, Gandalf, Gloin, Kili, Ori, Oin, Thorin are all named in the Poetic Edda, a collection of Old Norse narrative poems.Ĥ. Both heroes later kill themselves after asking their sword if it will slay them (which it does).ģ.

Both are tragic heroes who accidentally commit incest with a sister, who discovers what they have done and kills herself by leaping into water. For his books, he drew from the Finnish epic poem Kalevala, notably The Story of Kullervo, particularly when shaping Middle-Earth.Īn early Middle-Earth man, for instance, is Turin Turambar, and his story echoes Kullervo’s. Tolkien studied languages through their literature, and was a scholar in this field of philology at Oxford. Music creates the world, in Tolkien’s imagined universe as well as the creatures in it.Ģ. The origin story of the imagined world of The Lord of the Rings (LoTR) is the Ainulindalë or Music of the Ainur (the Ainur being the godly beings that existed before this world). Where did Middle-Earth come from? JRR Tolkien’s answer is: A song. Fifty years on, take a tour of his legacy.ġ. Sometimes it’s not there at all, which means that the artist either has made a deliberate decision against the mountain, which is interesting in itself, or is in fact standing on Mt. Fuji appears so often in Japanese prints. Tolkien has become a sort of mountain, appearing in all subsequent fantasy in the way that Mt. big Device with Alexa Tiny pedestals, of a sort Nashville awards org.The author Terry Pratchett once wrote: “J.R.R.

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