Sökning: "Tolkien Beowulf"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Tolkien Beowulf.

1. 1. 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

3. 2. The Image of Heroism in Tolkien’s "The Hobbit"

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

   Författare :Cecilia Wiklander; [2011-06-28]
   Nyckelord :heroism; Hobbit; Tolkien; Bilbo; hero; burglar; image;

   Sammanfattning : An essay about how Tolkien interpreted heroism in his character Bilbo as a sensitive hero guided by emotions and ethics rather than the traditional hero images such as for example Beowulf. The essay deals with the themes of rebirth, heroism and burglar ethics connected to the hero image... LÄS MER