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J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very real civilization in which those who lived had a vision of life animated by beings beyond the material world.
Magic was real to these people and they believed their universe was held together by an interlaced web of golden threads visible only to wizards. At its center was Middle Earth, a place peopled by...
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Accepting his fate and claiming his birthright,Thomas Kestrel now must topple the High King.Can he convince the people who feared him to stand with him and fight? In The Lord of the Highlands, the fifth book in sword and sorcery Arthurian epic The Sylvan Chronicles, Thomas realizes that he must regain the trust of the Marchers and reclaim the Kingdom of his birth. Discovering that not only must he stand against a High King bent on conquering the Kingdoms,...
3) The House of the Wolfings: The William Morris Book That Inspired J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of The
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J. R. R. Tolkien fans who long for more of the joy they get from The Lord of the Rings will find it in the writings of William Morris. He created the literature that Tolkien brought to such perfection. As a young man writing his future wife, Tolkien mentioned the inspiration he was getting from Morris: "Amongst other work I am trying to turn one of the short stories [of the Finnish Kalevala] . . . into a short story somewhat on the lines of Morris'...
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