Sökning: "Lord of the war"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 uppsatser innehållade orden Lord of the war.

  1. 1. We Are Very Similar, yet We Are Very Different: J.R.R Tolkien´s Éowyn of Rohan´s Vergilian Origins and Her Search for Meaning

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Cathérina Kubresli; [2022-09-29]
    Nyckelord :Éowyn; Tolkien; Dido; Virgil; Aragorn; Aeneas; fate; epic society; psychology; self-recognition;

    Sammanfattning : Abstract: Through the years, many characters in The Lord of the Rings have been analysed in different ways. Éowyn is no exception. Her character has often been associated with the shield-maidens and Valkyries existing in Nordic Germanic and Anglo-Saxon literatures. This essay, however, breaks with this tradition. LÄS MER

  3. 2. “In Every Wood in Every Spring There is a Different Green” : An Independent Project in Literature on The Ecocritical Dialogue and Carnivalesque Aspects of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Legendarium

    Kandidat-uppsats, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Författare :Nicholas Pappas; [2021]
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    Sammanfattning : Tolkien’s Middle Earth is characterised by the conflict between the forces of good, often represented as guardians of nature juxtaposed to the forces of evil, marked by a voracious edacity for a nature destroying industry. In fact, the second volume of the LotR deals with Saruman’s war against nature. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Fantastisk historia och fornstora dagar: En jämförelse av kunskapen om förflutna guldåldrar i J. R. R. Tolkiens och George R. R. Martins fantasyvärldar

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Författare :Ludvig Lhonneur; [2021]
    Nyckelord :The Lord of the Rings; A song of Ice and Fire; A Game of Thrones; The Fellowship of the Ring; J. R. R. Tolkien; Tolkien; George R. R. Martin; Martin; Westerose; Middle Earth; History; Fantasy; Fantastic History; Golden Age; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : In this study I have compared the use of intradiegetic history in the fantasy worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien and George R. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Olle Hjortzberg : Konstprofessor mot strömmen

    Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Författare :Mikael Forsström; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Olle Hjortzberg; konstvetenskap; kyrkokonst; minneskapell; Lützen; kvalitativa nätverk;

    Sammanfattning : The present paper presents results from research of the Swedish Olle Hjortzberg’s career as visual artist. The objectives have been to explore the circumstances around why Hjortzberg got established and received prestige assignments already in his early years in fierce competition with other established artists. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Brothers and Arms: How Two Brothers Reflect the Abandonment of Past Heroic Ideals and the Development of Future ones in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Estrid Ericson Borggren; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Heroic Ideals; Tolkien; Victorian Medievalism; Boromir; Faramir; The Lord of the Rings; Heroicism; Post-war Literature; The Great War; Beowulf; Past; Future; Brothers; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The literary heroic ideal changed with the Great War, as the Victorian hero ideal was no longer plausible in a post-war world. The new ideal was pacifist and non-heroic but not everyone who had been through the Great War agreed that there was no heroicism. LÄS MER