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Essay Instructions: In this paper I will argue that J.R.R. Tolkien should be included in the select gallery of canonized authors. The research paper should follow the argumentative essay. I will upload the Research Paper Proposal I've already wrote which also contain a few sources (all accessible online).
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Essay Instructions: Write a 5 page literary analysis of Lord of the Rings, specifically examining and evaluating Tolkien's choice of words as a British author versus words that would normally have been used by American authors. You may also do an analysis of Tolkien's syntax, in addition to his word usage, if it will be easier to fill the 5 pages with.

Essay Instructions: Compare and contrast Tom Bombadil with Treebeard. Both are naturalistic creatures, who are quite old, yet they are also different in many ways. Analyze each and how they fit in to the world of Middle-earth.

Explain what JRR Tolkien is saying about the nature of nature.

Essay Instructions: I would like these 6 questions answered please each question 350 words for each question

and please refer to the critical reader(LLD) that is attached

these are the 6 questions:


1. What are some possible features of residual (or "secondary") orality preserved in Voluspa, according to the criteria Ong (1982) advances?


2. Identify a central incident that happens in at least four of the above texts, and discuss how it is both similar and different in each example (remember to site from the original texts).


3. How did Tolkien draw on the Old Norse and Old English texts in his Hobbit and Lord of the Rings fantasy novels? Provide some concrete examples.


4. Discuss how Tolkien's use of "tradition" (e.g. older literary sources) differs from the techniques and agendas of modernism (see Week 7 in your Reader).


5. What place do the old myths have in the modern world?


6. How does the film Beowulf and Grendel "problematise" the hero-myth of Beowulf ?