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…. The Phantom did not want to go back to the hobbit-like personality he had adopted from all his years in the sub-levels of the playhouse. He became the Angel of Music. Before his transformation into the Angel of Music, the Phantom lived alone. He did not make…

…his character. Tolkien was an officer in the WW1 and wrote 'The Hobbit' between the world wars. By 1918 all but one of his close friends were dead. He wrote 'Lord of the Rings' during the rise of the Third Reich and during WW2. When you read of Frodo's…

…exist between the Two Kingdoms, nonetheless.Tolkien, referring to the movement of Hobbits into Eriador having been communicated to Gondor, stated that "The kingdoms of the North and the South remained in close communication at that time [the Elventh…

…The mysterious figure of Merlin has captivated literature and the mind of storytellers throughout the ages. The presence and spirit of his character is felt not only in recent incarnations such as the wizard Gandalf in J.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, but also…

…of the Scandinavians, the Germans or the Irish (Edwards p.143). As a shape-shifter, Puck has had many appearances over the years. One Irish story has him as an old man. He's been pictured like a brownie or a hobbit. In some paintings, he looks like Pan from Greek mythology…

…that seem to dead ends but if you walk through a Hobbit hole like door, you emerge on to another tiny cobblestone street), you are quickly lost. On top of all of this, the streets are roamed by stray dogs. Attempting to walk across the village, as I did without…

…All of us have at one time or another read something we would call Fantasy. Be it when reading "The Hobbit" or "The Lord of the Rings" as a school assignment (or for the more enlightened of us, at our own whim), from wanting to read the stuff that made…

…, Frodo and other characters make personal sacrifices in order to achieve societal salvation. The characters form the magical elements of Jackson's film, once again reinforcing it as a fantasy text. The construction of "creatures" such as hobbits and elves…

…of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955). He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable…

…the Anglo-Saxon era. It was not until 1936, when the Oxford scholar J.R.R. Tolkien (who later wrote The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, works heavily influenced by Beowulf) published a groundbreaking paper entitled "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics…