David Day
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in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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A Tolkien Bestiary
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1978
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Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia
29 editions
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1991
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Tolkien: An Illustrated Atlas
13 editions
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2015
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Tolkien's Ring
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21 editions
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1994
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The Battles of Tolkien (3) (Tolkien Illustrated Guides)
14 editions
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2016
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A Dictionary of Tolkien
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The Dark Powers of Tolkien: An illustrated Exploration of Tolkien's Portrayal of Evil, and the Sources that Inspired his Work from Myth, Literature and History
8 editions
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2018
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The Heroes of Tolkien (4) (Tolkien Illustrated Guides)
13 editions
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2017
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The Hobbits of Tolkien
8 editions
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2019
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The "Hobbit" Companion
20 editions
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1997
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“The castle, and all it represents, will always be with us. Once it was born, once the stone was made living, the repository of power made real, the idea could never be unmade. Even if all the castles of all the world were destroyed, in the minds of men they would be built anew; the wizard called imagination would raise high walls and towers out of ruins.”
― Castles
― Castles
“Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would "rather rule in hell than serve in heaven". One might have admired these rebel angels if one believed their defiance was in the name of liberty- however, both lied. Their rebellions were only provoked by envy and the usurpers' wishes to take the perceived tyrants' place. Never were two more natural tyrants than Morgoth and Satan.”
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“Many critics have seen Tolkien's writings as a response to the trauma of the First World War, even going so far as to see The Lord of the Rings as a "war novel", rather than as pure high fantasy. Tolkien himself admitted there were connections with the First World War, but denied vehemently there were any to the second: Sauron is not Hitler; the One Ring is not the atomic bomb. There is a middle ground: The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, along with many other of his writings, was to large degree a therapeutic process in which he faced up to and attempted to purge the trauma inflicted on him and his peers at the Somme.... Who knows, then, what Tolkien might have made of the War of the Last Alliance had he written its tale in full? There are hints of the grandeur and terror it might have achieved: The Somme-like Battle of Dagorlad with the ill-considered charge of the Galadhrim and the swamp of dead bodies left behind in the Dead Marshes; the grueling seven-year siege and the climactic, gruesome duel on the slopes of Mount Doom. What we do have, however, is an intriguing, almost medieval-style chronicle of its main events and manoeuvres - more than enough, then, to feed our imaginations.”
― Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age
― Illustrated World of Tolkien: The Second Age
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