Character pairing in The Lord of the Rings
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Character pairing in The Lord of the Rings
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Character pairing in The Lord of the Rings is a literary device used by J. R. R. Tolkien, a Roman Catholic, to express some of the moral complexity of his major characters in his heroic romance, The Lord of the Rings. Commentators have noted that the format of a fantasy does not lend itself to subtlety of characterisation, but that pairing allows inner tensions to be expressed as linked opposites, including, in a psychoanalytic interpretation, those of Jungian archetypes. Major pairings include
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Psychological pairing of characters in The Lord of the Rings
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_pairing_in_The_Lord_of_the_Rings
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2020-08-05T08:22:46Z
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2024-09-09T13:45:06Z
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