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Author : Sierra Rydell
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 9780373587353
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (873 download)
Download or read book On Middle Ground written by Sierra Rydell and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 1993 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Greg Harvey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0764541862
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (645 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies written by Greg Harvey and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-10-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.R.R. Tolkien's novels of Middle-earth – The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and The Silmarillian – have become some of the most famous, and most beloved, literary works of the twentieth century. And the Lord of the Rings films by director Peter Jackson have re-ignited interest in Tolkien and his works, as well as introduced his stories to a new generation of fans. Even if you've never read the novels and have only seen the films, you know that the world of Middle-earth is a complicated one. Tolkien took great care in representing this world, from creating new languages to including very particular cultural details that add to the richness of the world's fabric. Many other books have been written about Tolkien and his works, but none have come close to providing the kind of reference needed to comprehend the world of Middle-earth. That's what veteran Dummies author and unabashed Tolkien fan Greg Harvey attempts to do in The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies. As the author says in his introduction to the book, this is not an encyclopedia or quick guide to all the diverse beings, languages, and history that make up Tolkien's Middle-earth. Nor is it a set of plot outlines for the novels. Rather, what you'll find in The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies is a basic guide to some of the possible linguistic and mythological origins of Middle-earth, plus a rudimentary analysis of its many themes and lessons for our world. This book can help enrich your reading (or re-reading) of Tolkien's novels, and it will challenge you to think about the themes inherent in Tolkien's Middle-earth and their implications in your own life. Here's just a sampling of the topics you'll find covered in The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies: Exploring the main themes in Tolkien's works, including immortality and death; the heroic quest; love; fate and free will; and faith and redemption Investigating the diverse lands of Middle-earth – including the Shire, Gondor, and Mordor – and their significance Examining the different cultures of Middle-earth, such as Hobbits, Elves, Men, and those wily Wizards Touring the history of Middle-earth Understanding Tolkien's creation of new languages to enrich the story of Middle-earth Top Ten lists on the battles in the War of the Ring, online resources, and the ways the films differ from the novels So, whether you're reading Tolkien's novels or watching the films for the first time, or you've been a fan for many years and are looking for a new take on Tolkien's works, The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth For Dummies can help you enhance your reading or viewing experience for years to come.
Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (987 download)
Download or read book The middle ground written by Margaret Drabble and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin S. Monsch
Publisher : Martin S. Monsch
ISBN 13 : 390732305X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Switzerland in Tolkien's Middle-Earth written by Martin S. Monsch and published by Martin S. Monsch. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey in search of Middle-earth In 1911, at the age of nineteen, J. R. R. Tolkien embarked on an adventurous journey through the Swiss Alps; with a heavy pack, he hiked over many high passes. More than fifty years later, he mentioned in a letter to his son Michael that this trip had deeply affected him. Bilbo's journey in The Hobbit from Rivendell to the other side of the Misty Mountains, he said, was based on his own adventures in 1911. Tolkien himself named a few specific sources of inspiration, most explicitly the Silberhorn (Silverhorn). So I wondered: Was this perhaps only the tip of the iceberg? Following in Tolkien's footsteps, I myself set out into the spectacular mountain world with its stories, myths, and legends, in search of his sources of inspiration; and little by little, a vivid and mysterious world revealed itself to me: a world that helped shape Middle-earth. More than 100 color images accompany the author's research and discovery journey, along with 11 hiking and 3 road trip suggestions that allow readers to recreate Tolkien's experience with all its impressions themselves in the Swiss mountains. "This book is above all else an invitation to step into Tolkien's hiking shoes, shoulder his pack, and step back a century into a world which is as far from today as Middle-earth is from our world; a guidebook of impressions, a walking tour of the nature of imagination and the imagination of nature." - John Howe
Author : Fleming Rutledge
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467423629
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book The Battle for Middle-earth written by Fleming Rutledge and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-11-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings has long been acknowledged as the gold standard for fantasy fiction, and the recent Oscar-winning movie trilogy has brought forth a whole new generation of fans. Many Tolkien enthusiasts, however, are not aware of the profoundly religious dimension of the great Ring saga. In The Battle for Middle-earth Fleming Rutledge employs a distinctive technique to uncover the theological currents that lie just under the surface of Tolkien's epic tale. Rutledge believes that the best way to understand this powerful "deep narrative" is to examine the story as it unfolds, preserving some of its original dramatic tension. This deep narrative has not previously been sufficiently analyzed or celebrated. Writing as an enthusiastic but careful reader, Rutledge draws on Tolkien's extensive correspondence to show how biblical and liturgical motifs shape the action. At the heart of the plot lies a rare glimpse of what human freedom really means within the Divine Plan of God. The Battle for Middle-earth surely will, as Rutledge hopes, "give pleasure to those who may already have detected the presence of the sub-narrative, and insight to those who may have missed it on first reading."
Author : Graham Robb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308163X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts written by Graham Robb and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes a discovery the author made in the Alps, which uncovered a treasure trove of Druid celestial mathematics that mapped out the entire geography of ancient Europe, and discusses the implications of this new information.
Author : Warren I. Cikins
Publisher : Devora Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781932687460
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (874 download)
Download or read book In Search of Middle Ground written by Warren I. Cikins and published by Devora Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 50 years in the Washington politics, Warren Cikins has helped draft legislation dealing with integration and affirmative action. He also was in the forefront of the conflict to revamp the US penal system, among other causes.
Author : Patrick Curry
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618478859
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Defending Middle-earth written by Patrick Curry and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely critical analysis of J. R. R. Tolkien's masterful trilogy, The Lord of the Rings, addresses the social and political structure of Middle-earth, its nature and ecology, and the spirituality and ethics of Tolkien's world.
Author : Hubert J. M. Hermans
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009432028
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Entering the Moral Middle Ground written by Hubert J. M. Hermans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary society needs the recognition of a moral middle ground, where human behavior can be evaluated as permissible, understandable, or even valuable. As a counterforce to polarization and divisive politics, an identity model is proposed in which individual and group identities are transcended by a human and ecological identity.
Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0544286189
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)
Download or read book The Middle Ground written by Margaret Drabble and published by HMH. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “marvelous” novel about a woman’s psychological battle with the realities of midlife (The New York Times Book Review). Witty and endearingly neurotic, Kate Armstrong has hit a certain age—and the crisis that goes along with it. She has a career as a successful journalist, specializing in feminist issues, but she struggles to challenge herself at work. She’s a mother, but her children have all left the nest, and her marriage has ended in divorce. She has a lively circle of friends, but her relationships with them are complicated by years of history and failed affairs. She’s left one stage of life behind and has another stage ahead of her, but right now she’s stuck somewhere in the middle. With her “unfailing insight and intelligence,” Margaret Drabble shows us a woman alone in London for the first time in years—slowly rediscovering herself in a city on the brink of great change (The New York Times).
Author : Jehanne Gheith
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810117142
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Finding the Middle Ground written by Jehanne Gheith and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of two influential women writers in the mid-nineteenth century which challenges many common assumptions about the development of the Russian literary tradition
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (966 download)
Download or read book The Middle Ground written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joshua Hren
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532611196
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good written by Joshua Hren and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political philosophy is nothing other than looking at things political under the aspect of eternity. This book invites us to look philosophically at political things in J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendarium, demonstrating that Tolkien’s potent mythology can be brought into rich, fruitful dialogue with works of political philosophy and political theology as different as Plato’s Timaeus, Aquinas’ De Regno, Hobbes’s Leviathan, and Erik Peterson’s “Monotheism as a Political Problem.” It concludes that a political reading of Tolkien’s work is most luminous when conducted by the harmonious lights of fides et ratio as found in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. A broad study of Tolkien and the political is especially pertinent in that the legendarium operates on two levels. As a popular mythology it is, in the author’s own words “a really long story that would hold the attention of readers, amuse them, delight them, and at times maybe excite them or deeply move them.” But the stories of The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings contain deeper teachings that can only be drawn out when read philosophically. Written from the vantage of a mind that is deeply Christian, Tolkien’s stories grant us a revelatory gaze into the major political problems of modernity—from individualism to totalitarianism, sovereignty to surveillance, terror to technocracy. As an “outsider” in modernity, Tolkien invites us to question the modern in a manner that moves beyond reaction into a vivid and compelling vision of the common good.
Author : Brian J. Robb
Publisher : Race Point Pub
ISBN 13 : 1937994279
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Middle-earth Envisioned written by Brian J. Robb and published by Race Point Pub. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines artistic interpretations of Tolkien's fantasy world, including movie stills, theatrical performances, games, and comic books, and features the lost art of Mary Fairburn, whose paintings were favored by Tolkien himself.
Author : Shravasti Dhammika
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 9552401976
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Middle Land, Middle Way written by Shravasti Dhammika and published by Buddhist Publication Society. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guidebook to the places in India made sacred by the Buddha’s presence. Beginning with an inspiring account of Buddhist pilgrimage, the author then covers sixteen places in detail. With maps and colour photos, an essential companion for pilgrim and traveler.
Author : Margaret Drabble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Download or read book “The” Middle Ground written by Margaret Drabble and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
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