"The Fellowship of the Ring"

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In J.R.R. "Tolkien's Fellowship of the Rings", the medieval world is continually referenced. This paper focuses on three areas, including: Tolkien's philosophical borrowings from the Middle Ages, the medieval style of the language he uses, and the similarities between the village life of Middle-Earth and that of the Anglo-Saxons.

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"If Tolkien was interested the philosophy of the middle ages, then he was enamoured with its language. As a child of the late 19th century he grew up in time when English literature was being affected by the rediscovery of the medieval. Medieval epics were revived and reincorporated into national mythologies. Fairy and folk tales became popular once again and there was a renewed interest in Beowolf and other northern epics. Since interest in these stories required an understanding of the various languages and dialects in which they were written, a new interest in philology (literally meaning 'the love of words') arose - something which Tolkien was particularly taken with. The languages out of which his art grows are Old English ,Old Norse and Old Saxon."

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