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Luke Shelton PhD

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Tolkien scholar. Creator of @TolkienExp. Editor of Mallorn: The Journal of the @TolkienSociety. He/Him (Background photo credit: @Dr_dimitra_fimi)

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    1. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

      Sitting down to read "The Arch and the Keystone" by Verlyn Flieger. Available in the newest issue of @mythlore! (I have heard good things!) Available here: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss1/3/ … #Tolkien #OpenAccess

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    2. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

      Very nice: "In spite of (or perhaps because of) all that has been written about him, in spite of (or perhaps because of) all that he himself has written, the essential J.R.R. Tolkien still eludes us."

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      Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

      If Shippey's comment at @Tolkien2019 ("If you read Tolkien when you are young, it never leaves you") supports my PhD, Flieger's comment at @2mythcon supports the #TolkienExperienceProject Everybody has their own private Tolkien—more Tolkiens than you can shake a stick at."

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        2. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

          On the contrast of OFS with B:CM, "It is the combination of eucatastrophe and Happy Ending that characterizes the fairy-story. A pretty big contrast to the Beowulfian acceptance of death as the end."--she has some great observations to support this!

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        3. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

          Flieger on finding contradictions about the religiosity of his writing in Tolkien's letters: "Either he is a hypocrite, which I do not believe, or he is more comfortable with paradox than some of his readers, who would rather find him on one side or the other."

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        4. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

          Flieger always has that wry wit that you love, delivered at the perfect moment! "nobody ever said Tolkien was an easy read. (I certainly never did.)"

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        5. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

          About "Leaf by Niggle" and "Smith of Wooten Major": "Niggle and Smith are projections, as well as competing aspects of Tolkien."

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        6. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

          On the genre of LOTR: "As it set out upon its adventure in the 20th century the fairy godmothers at its birth christened it fantasy, and it has since been called a myth, a fairy tale, a great book, and juvenile trash...

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        7. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

          ...I have read enough to venture the opinion that Tolkien studies, while rich in many departments, is surprisingly poor in one. It is poor in understanding of [LOTR] as tragedy"

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        8. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

          Here it is, the clincher: "Frodo and Sam, at the Cracks of Doom and in the aftermath, embody between them the final tension and opposition that characterizes Tolkien’s masterwork." (I'm not giving this one away! Read the essay!)

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        9. Luke Shelton PhD‏ @LukeBShelton 5 Nov 2019

          Wow, what a masterclass on writing a conclusion. READ THE ESSAY!

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