Hi !

[Jookielore123]

Greetings fellow Tolkien fans



I am doing a long research paper over The life of J.R.R Tolkien and his writing style(escapism). If anyone knows of a good research site or anyone has any helpful hints let me know

Thanks Jookie

[barrelrider110]

Hi to you too, Jookie.
Escapism? Tolkien's writings are escapism?
Try A.A. Milne for escapism. Ok, I admit, we would all like to escape to Middle Earth at least once a day. If I were writing this long paper (1077 pages?) I would start with a good biography of J.R.R. himself. He had quite hard life early on. If you were in the Somme in 1917 I bet you would want to escape too. Also, there is a classic anti-Tolkien critical essay titled "Oooh those nasty Orcs." I forget the writer, but I found it in a book titiled "A Tolkien Treasury." It basically paints LOTR as a children's story. By the way, writing style refers to the manner in which the words of the story are crafted. Escapism is a category of literature. You could make the case for escapism in John Ronald Ruell's work, then again you could make quite a good case against it. Good luck. :cool:

[markedel]

In some editions of the silmarrilion there is an excellent letter by Tolkein outlining the themes of his work. It's a good outline of what ideally he wished to achieve.

[Comic Book Guy]

We, technically, are already in Middle-Earth because Tolkiens Works are a History of around 6000 years ago, we currently are in the sixth or seventh age I believe.