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Mythopoeia: myth-creation and Middle-earth

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The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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A celebration of Tolkien and his creations, with special guests Dame Marina Warner, Prof Verlyn Flieger and Dr Dimitra Fimi.
The panel of guests will consider the origins and the uses of myth-making as a literary genre, the motivation which lay behind Tolkien's own myth creation, and the rise in fantasy literature during his lifetime.

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Series
The Bodleian Libraries (BODcasts)
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Marina Warner
Verlyn Flieger
Dimitra Fimi
Keywords
literature
Tolkien exhibition
tolkien
history
Department: Bodleian Libraries
Date Added: 25/01/2019
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