A mythology for England
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title:
A mythology for England
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The English author J. R. R. Tolkien has often been supposed to have spoken of wishing to create "a mythology for England". It seems he never used the actual phrase, but various commentators have found his biographer Humphrey Carpenter's phrase appropriate as a description of much of his approach in creating Middle-earth, and the legendarium behind The Silmarillion. His desire to create a national mythology echoed similar attempts in countries across Europe, especially Elias Lönnrot's creation of
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Literary analysis of Tolkien
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_mythology_for_England
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2024-05-15T19:40:16Z
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2024-09-07T13:43:36Z
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