Article Title
Artists and Illustrations Included in This Record
Artist
Annette Harper
Abstract
Close examination of the three versions of the Walking Song in The Lord of the Rings that shows how it captures the themes of the book in miniature. The metaphors “encapsulate the same view of history and man’s role in it that he conveys through the larger metaphor of the trilogy itself.”
Recommended Citation
Reynolds, William
(1977)
"Poetry as Metaphor inThe Lord of the Rings,"
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature: Vol. 4
:
No.
4
, Article 3.
Available at:
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol4/iss4/3
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