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- Title: Dialogic war: From the Battle of Maldon to the war of the Ring.
- Author : Mythlore
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 210 KB
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IN AN EARLY REVIEW OF THE LORD OP THE RINGS, C.S. Lewis offers a brief structural analysis of J.R.R. Tolkien's heroic romance: Lewis's sketch remains a perceptive summation of Tolkien's achievement, highlighting the disparity--between the epic battles waged in Books III and V and the anguished plodding of two Hobbits in Book IV and the early portion of Book VI--at the heart of the final two volumes of The Lord of the Rings. Yet neither Lewis nor later scholars of Tolkien's work have paid much heed to the dialogic nature (1) of this great "structural invention" or acknowledged its heavy debt to Tolkien's reading and criticism of the Old English poetic fragment, The Battle of Maldon. The key to recognizing the polyphonic aspects of The Lord of the Rings as well as its structural inheritance from the medieval poem lies in an intermediate step: Tolkien's "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth," first published in a 1953 volume of Essays and Studies. The implicit dialogue between the epic and the unglamorous in the last four books of The Lord of the Rings echoes the debate waged between the two speakers in "The Homecoming."
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