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T1 Would you rather be a man or an elf? Analyzing death, immortality, and fall in Tolkien’s narrative
A1 García González, Mario
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Tolkien
K1 Death and immortality
K1 Fall
K1 Men
K1 Elves
K1 Muerte e inmortalidad
K1 Caída
K1 Hombres
K1 Elfos
AB This graduation project deals with a writer who is considered to be the father of FantasticLiterature in the English language: J. R. R. Tolkien. He was the only author capable of writing a complete mythology for England. Specifically, this paper is about Tolkien’s conception of death and immortality and how these affect Middle-Earth peoples, especially as regards the fall of two of them: Men and Elves’. We have extensively drawn on many secondary sources as well as on Tolkien’s works in order to provide a general idea of these concepts in his Legendarium. After a brief review of Tolkien’s life and works, we proceed with an analysis of the dichotomy between both Men’s and Elves’ ways of dying, and, finally, explore one of the consequences of this dichotomy: the fall of both peoples.
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25750
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/25750
LA eng
NO Departamento de Filología Inglesa
DS UVaDOC
RD 26-abr-2024