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- Title: Thresholds to Middle-Earth: Allegories of Reading, Allegories for Knowledge and Transformation (Critical Essay)
- Author : Mythlore
- Release Date : January 22, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 229 KB
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Allegory and Some Methodological Obstacles Many of Tolkien's readers will remember his foreword to The Lord of the Rings, in which he declares that his novel is "neither allegorical nor topical" and that he prefers "history, true or feigned, with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers" (The Lord of the Rings [LotR] Foreword. xxiii-xxiv). Most scholars have chosen to accept Tolkien's assertion. (2) This choice still, however, represents a position that should be contested.