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Poetically, Tolkien’s long struggle to realize his vision — the self-doubt that led to long pauses in composition, his ...

I learned everything I needed to know growing up from Star Wars, Commodore, Tolkien, King, and Crichton.

Poetically, Tolkien’s long struggle to realize his vision — the self-doubt that led to long pauses in composition, his frustrations with publishers and his general inability to be satisfied enough ...

Tolkien used his scholarly familiarity with ancient storytelling modes to create a a world so vast it spills off of the page.

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J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by everything from the poem The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson to the plays of William Shakespeare to the ...

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Cloquet High School students in teacher Jason Richardson’s English class each wrote a narrative story of some sort after reading “Beowulf” earlier this month. Richardson gave them the option of ...

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