Tolkien's prose style
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Tolkien's prose style
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The prose style of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth books, especially The Lord of the Rings, is remarkably varied. Commentators have noted that Tolkien selected linguistic registers to suit different peoples, such as simple and modern for Hobbits and more archaic for Dwarves, Elves, and the Rohirrim. This allowed him to use the Hobbits to mediate between the modern reader and the heroic and archaic realm of fantasy. The Orcs, too, are depicted in different voices: the Orc-leader Grishnákh speaks
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Literary style in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_prose_style
date created:
2021-02-25T15:57:34Z
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2024-08-27T19:04:47Z
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