10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOLKIENESQUE»
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Tolkienesque in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Tolkienesque and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
The same entry in the Supplement to the OED contains a subentry for the word
Tolkienesque, defined as 'characteristic of or resembling Tolkien or his writings'.
The earliest example is from the science magazine Nature (18 July 1970).
Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, Edmund Weiner, 2009
2
The Re-Enchantment of the West, Vol 2: Alternative ...
It was, for an observer on the ground, and however cliched, a scene like that from
a fairy tale. l felt at the time that l was witnessing something more Tolkienesque
than real, the last pitched battle of some ancient tribe against the relentless ...
Christopher Partridge, 2006
3
The re-enchantment of the West: alternative spiritualities, ...
I felt at the time that I was witnessing something more Tolkienesque than real, the
last pitched battle of some ancient tribe against the relentless advance of
modernity.176 The Celtic Romanticism and the cultural references are both
common ...
Christopher Hugh Partridge, 2006
The 24 scenes can be colored individually and then removed from the book to assemble two different panoramic posters measuring approximately 32 by 32 inches!
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Digimodernism: How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern ...
in the not negligible world where narrative is embraced solely for pleasure, more
radical developments are underway. The Tolkienesque in my afterAuerbach
sense is prevalent in videogames, in Hollywood (as content), and in popular
fiction ...
6
Locating Science Fiction
The implication seems clear thatonly Tolkienesque reactionaries would dabble
insuch stuff. Yet, the empirical convergence between SF and fantasy seems,
nonetheless, to bea fact of contemporary cultural life. The World Science Fiction ...
7
Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction
The Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance game systems are set in a Tolkienesque
world and have been the basis for literally hundreds of fantasy novels and stories
. Scores of fantasy trilogies followed, some of them similar to Tolkien's, most of ...
8
Rush, Rock Music and the Middle Class: Dreaming in Middletown
20 William Johnston observed that Rush's 1970s fantasy-based repertoire has a
kind of a Tolkienesque feel to it, or at least what you would think Tolkien would
sound like. Also, there's an overture to Elizabethan music, except it's not being ...
"In Odom's winsome Tolkienesque fantasy, the third in a series that began with
The Rover (2001), a month has passed since the near eradication of the Vault of
All Known Knowledge and the disappearance of its chief librarian,
Grandmagister ...
10
Australia's Remarkable Trees
The hollow trunk is like a Tolkienesque cavern, 15 metres high, one-third the
height of the tree. One hundred people could quite comfortably throw a party
there, with room to move. Inside the cavern great slabs of wood, blackened by fire
, hang ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOLKIENESQUE»
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Tolkienesque is used in the context of the following news items.
First footage of MTV's ambitious, Tolkien-esque fantasy series The …
If it comes across as a bit Tolkienesque, there may be a reason: It's filmed in New Zealand (and even co-stars John Rhys-Davies). The special-effects budget ... «Blastr, Jul 15»
Twisted oaks and tales on the trail of Devon's pygmy forest
The resulting Tolkienesque landscape, a tangle of contorted trunks and branches emerging from boulder-strewn slopes turned velvet green, is unlike any ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
Walking routes and cycle paths in the Isle of Man
The path plunged steeply into a Tolkienesque world of tangled trees, misty waterfalls and mossy stone bridges – beneath which there were surely fairy rings? «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
Celebrating Hubble: Mystic Mountain
Looking like a Tolkienesque painting by John Howe or Alan Lee, this pillar of dust in the Carina Nebula (called the Mystic Mountain) is being assaulted from ... «Astronomy Now Online, Apr 15»
The awesome glory that is Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition
There's just something about high Arthurian or Tolkienesque fantasy that cuts so deeply into the Western unconscious, finding a far more central vein than ... «Boing Boing, Dec 14»
In Noisy Equations, One Who Heard Music
The Tolkienesque paper, published online in the journal Inventiones Mathematicae in March, is only the latest and greatest in a series of feats by the 38-year-old ... «Quanta Magazine, Oct 14»
A necessary retreat
The Tolkienesque bach fits in among the trees, not imposing on the bush. A pause is needed. There's an expansion in the lungs; stress, mobile phones, emails, ... «Manawatu Standard, Sep 14»
Orkney dig dispels caveman image of ancestors
“On a heather-clad knoll half a mile away rises a giant Tolkienesque circle of stones known as the Ring of Brodgar,” Smith said. “A second ceremonial stone ... «Scotsman, Jul 14»
J.R.R. Tolkien Reveals TRUE Meaning Of 'The Lord Of The Rings' In …
The menu for the dinner was whimsically Tolkienesque, with Egg-salad à la Barliman Butterbur, Vegetables of Goldberry, and Maggot-soup (mushroom soup ... «Huffington Post, May 14»
Dwarf Corn Successfully Grown in Caves
No, we are not talking about some Tolkienesque fantasy cash crop here, but researches have indeed found a way to dwarf their corn stalks while maintaining ... «Nature World News, May 14»
