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everywhere else, and Legolas's, that it is a matter of perception. She considers Aragorn's view to reconcile these two positions, agreeing that time has passed as Legolas said, but that the Fellowship felt time as the Elves did while they were in Lothlórien. That is not, writes Flieger, the end of the matter, as she feels that Aragorn reintroduces the dilemma when he says that the moon carried on changing "in the world outside": this suggests once again that Lothlórien had its own laws of nature, as in a
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living vision of that which has already been left far behind by the flowing streams of Time" and Legolas, an Elf who ought to know how things work in Elven lands, says that time does not stop there, "but change and growth is not in all things and places alike. For Elves the world moves, and it moves both very swift and very slow. Swift, because they themselves change little, and all else fleets by. Slow, because they do not count the running years".
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Flieger argues that timelessness cannot really be pictured, for if it was, the story would be frozen in midstep, the narrative stopped dead. The nearest Tolkien can get is to depict the Elves living in Lothlórien: they neither grow old nor die; their strength and beauty do not fade. In this state of
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digging patiently through stratified deposits, back through time: "they dip into the First age of Middle-earth. There they discover a remnant of that first age when trees ruled." Tom and Goldberry are in his opinion "anachronisms, left over from the first age.". They matter to the story as part of a
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recalling that the moon was waning just before they arrived, and was new when they left, though they all felt they had only been there for a few days. She notes that Sam actually exclaims "Anyone would think that time did not count in there!", while Frodo sees Galadriel as "present and yet remote, a
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that Tolkien liked Wells's journey to the far future, where there are two subspecies of humans. Tolkien admired the visit to these peoples who "live far away, in an abyss of time so deep as to work an enchantment upon them", but found Wells's time machine "preposterous and incredible", being a cross
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theory of time, suggesting that dreams could combine memories of both past and future events, and that time could flow differently for observers in different dimensions. Further, he believed that dreams could give access to all dimensions of time, a mechanism for time travel. The theory did not gain
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As soon as he set foot upon the far bank of Silverlode a strange feeling had come upon him, and it deepened as he walked on into the Naith: it seemed to him that he had stepped over a bridge of time into a corner of the Elder Days, and was now walking in a world that was no more. In Rivendell there
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gets a religious feeling, evoked implicitly, since no structured theology is presented. Tolkien's account of Lothlórien, he adds, powerfully conveys the mythic quality of timelessness, most apparent when the Fellowship leaves and finds that a month has gone by, but they cannot account for the days
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we would have had a dream of time-travel through actual history and recorded myth which would have functioned as both introduction and epilogue to Tolkien's own invented mythology. The result would have been time-travel not on the scale of ordinary science fiction but of epic, a dream of myth and
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Frodo looked and saw, still at some distance, a hill of many mighty trees, or a city of green towers: which it was he could not tell. Out of it, it seemed to him that the power and light came that held all the land in sway. He longed suddenly to fly like a bird to rest in the green city. Then he
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had come from, just as the three tribes who colonised England had come from the Angle area of Germany and Denmark. If that was Tolkien's meaning, Shippey writes, Frodo's feeling that he has "stepped over a bridge of time into a corner of the Elder Days, and was now walking in a world that was no
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Tolkien recorded in his letters that Lewis proposed to him that since there was too little of what either man liked in literature, they would have to write stories themselves. He further wrote that they tossed a coin for the choice of subject: Lewis got space travel, and Tolkien got time travel.
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Shippey considers Legolas's explanation to resolve the apparent contradiction between the mortal and Elvish points of view about Elvish time. Flieger however writes that there is a definite contradiction between Frodo's position, that there is an actual difference in time between Lothlórien and
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The real theme for me is .. Death and Immortality: the mystery of the love of the world in the hearts of a race 'doomed' to leave and seemingly lose it; the anguish in the hearts of a race 'doomed' not to leave it, until its whole evil-aroused story is complete. But if you have now read
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was memory of ancient things; in Lórien the ancient things still lived on in the waking world. Evil had been seen and heard there, sorrow had been known; the Elves feared and distrusted the world outside: wolves were howling on the wood's borders: but on the land of Lórien no shadow lay.
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to hold back time and change. She perceives that the coming of the One Ring will be fateful for her realm, as either it will be destroyed, her Ring will lose its power, and time will sweep the Elves away; or the Dark Lord
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The travellers feel taken back in time on entering the Elvish land. Time seems to pass differently there, though the protagonists hold varied opinions as to how that is. They are allowed to look into a magic fountain, the
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looked eastward and saw all the land of Lórien running down to the pale gleam of Anduin, the Great River. He lifted his eyes across the river and all the light went out, and he was back again in the world he knew.
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the first age." Evil, too, can affect both the present and the past; if Sauron conquers, the light will not only be put out across the whole of Middle-earth: Sauron could "eliminate even past existence".
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Flieger identifies a network of influences, starting from H. G. Wells and including Dunne; collectively, they provided what she calls "a template" for Tolkien's ideas of time travel.
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journey through time, not space: in Miller's words, "Their structural importance is temporal, not geographical." Thus, "The Old Forest is not merely left over from the first age; it
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proposing a theory that time could flow differently for different observers, and that dreams gave access to all of time. A network of writers who were influenced by Wells, including
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Tolkien built a process of decline and fall in Middle-earth, implying that if one could go back in time, one would find a far more perfect world than the present one, into both
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Artamonova, Maria (2010). "Writing for an Anglo-Saxon audience in the twentieth century: J.R.R. Tolkien's Old English Chronicles". In Clark, David; Perkins, Nicholas (eds.).
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Boy and girl separated as children share dreamed experiences, their dreams becoming their primary existence; they travel back to their ancestors, the French Revolution, the
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wrote that at the end of the nineteenth century, thinkers in several fields were turning away from present time and exploring other ways to view the world. In 1895
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is enchanted by his vision of Lothlórien as a place of perfect beauty which he must soon leave, just as he is horrified, she writes, by his matching vision of
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An 18th century house gives the feeling of going back in time; a painting of an ancestor who shares the protagonist's name comes alive, and the men meet
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who boldly face the loss of all they hold dear, "the absolute necessity of letting go, of trusting in the unknown future, of having faith in God".
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had a pair of characters, Edred and Elfrida, with Old English names much like Tolkien's Eadwine and Aelfwine, who similarly travel back in time.
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But then the Fellowship have to cross a rope-bridge over a second river, the Silverlode, which they must not drink from, and which the evil
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Stewart, Victoria (2010). "An Experiment with Narrative? Rumer Godden's A Fugue in Time". In Lucy Le-Guilcher; Phyllis B. Lassner (eds.).
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Shippey states that in Lothlórien, Tolkien reconciles otherwise conflicting ideas regarding time-distortion in Elfland from
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The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and its Relation to the Rational
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who founded England. Further, the land between two other rivers (to the west of the Misty Mountains), the Hoarwell or
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created a literary environment that enabled Tolkien to explore time travel in his own way, first in the unfinished
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The different time-travel novels indicate the development of Tolkien's ideas and his skill in expressing them.
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calls the "magic" of Lothlórien, which everyone in the Fellowship can see and feel, echoes the feeling in the
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that passed. This timelessness, however, is not permanent; it will be subject to the inexorable process of
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Brawley, Chris (2007). "The Fading of the World: Tolkien's Ecology and Loss in 'The Lord of the Rings'".
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may be defeated, but that will entail the fading and departure of the Elves, leaving the world to Men,
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between a car and a bicycle; he chose to use different mechanisms in his stories. Beare notes that in
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Tolkien was writing in a period when notions of time and space were being radically revised, from the
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in the table) appear in the texts as incarnations of the protagonist in the different times visited.
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and distortions in the passage of time in his fiction in a variety of ways. The passage of time in
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novella in which a machine allows an observer to travel forwards and backwards in time. In 1900,
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The scholar of literature David M. Miller comments that in the narrative, "time spurts and lags
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The scholar Chris Brawley writes that Tolkien was attempting to give readers a glimpse of the
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history and fiction interlocking as Tolkien wanted them to, as they might well once have done.
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He felt that he could say that his most permanent mood … had been since childhood the desire
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is "its ability to transport the reader outside of time to realms otherwise inaccessible".
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cannot cross. Shippey comments that "a determined allegorist" might call the first river "
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of dimensions, but attracted the interest of contemporary writers including H. G. Wells,
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being the "concomitants" of time and timelessness. Tolkien wrote in a 1956 letter that:
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similarly, as another "exercise in temporal archaeology." Here, the time visited is the
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Tolkien mentions both the mortal desire to escape from death, and the Elvish desire to
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Stewart, Victoria (2008). "J. W. Dunne and literary culture in the 1930s and 1940s".
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when the protection of Galadriel's ring is withdrawn. Galadriel lets Frodo look into
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Miller analyses the pattern of movements and communication through time as follows:
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and using modern theories to seek to escape, "at once reactionary and avant-garde".
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writes that the Fellowship debated how much time had passed while they were there,
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manuscript shows the Dreamer on the other side of the stream from the Pearl-maiden.
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as the source of the device of a pair of characters who travel back in time from
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Miller, David M. (1975). "Narrative Pattern in The Fellowship of the Ring". In
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Bombadil scatters the treasure, destroys the barrow, banishes the Barrow-wight
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was an early influence on a network of authors who together helped to provide
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Anon (27 August 1949). "Obituary: Mr. J. W. Dunne, Philosopher and Airman".
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remarked that "rational man undermined his own world". Flieger wrote that
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was preceded in Tolkien's writings by two unfinished time-travel novels,
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The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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Time-travelling frame story characters with the periods they visit
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Theory of multiple time dimensions for different observers
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will regain his Ring, and take control of all the others.
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and the story of Aragorn , you will have perceived that.
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Lothlórien "in a time that has elsewhere long gone by".
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and seems to allude to J. W. Dunne's dimensions of time
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A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie
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Dunne" 2254:, and causing "the windy dissolution of Sauron" 1862:'s analysis of the paradoxes of Elvish time in 899:, when the world is reshaped as round, and the 394: 327: 3971:The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays 3419:Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination 3069: 3067: 1141:, were the remnants of far larger kingdoms in 6362: 4107: 3840:Stanton, Michael N. (2006). "Lothlórien". In 3749:: Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad". In 3137: 3135: 3133: 3131: 2437: 1232:Paired time-travellers with Old English names 1077:shares the sense of impending destruction of 537:" stated that a defining characteristic of a 88:to slow the passage of time. Elvish time, in 8082:Tolkien: A Look Behind The Lord of the Rings 3228: 2881: 2544: 2518: 2516: 968:In stages, haltingly, between 1937 and 1949 8040:The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion 3103: 3064: 1898:dim memory of a man lost visiting Elfland. 1089:, however much Tolkien regretted the fact. 6369: 6355: 4114: 4100: 3416: 3128: 2930: 2410:, Letter #131 to Milton Waldman, late 1951 2401: 1484:The physicist Kristine Larsen, writing in 545:Successive attempts at a time-travel novel 4121: 3452: 2624:"Max Planck: the reluctant revolutionary" 2615: 2550: 2513: 2510:, book 2, ch. 7 "The Mirror of Galadriel" 2413: 2407: 2371: 1814:, such as is exemplified in the medieval 1806:. Illustration by Katherine Cameron, 1908 1515:The Tolkien scholar Rhona Beare notes in 1155:splintering of the original created light 1057:, and followed by the destruction of the 478:" to view an alien world in "Othertime". 8075:Tolkien's Art: 'A Mythology for England' 8026:The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide 7952:Things named after Tolkien and his works 3868: 3733: 3656: 3623: 3019: 2993:, pp. 60–63, 89-147 and throughout. 2954: 2821:: Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad. 2806: 2769: 2507: 2479: 2443: 1795: 1548: 1235: 390: 211: 8019:J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century 6299:The Lord of the Rings Trading Card Game 4054: 4022: 3990: 3964: 3932: 3900: 3839: 3811: 3788:J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century 3781: 3591: 3563: 3541: 3513: 3429: 3400: 3388: 3310: 3295: 3278: 3245: 3222: 3205: 3193: 3181: 3097: 3058: 3043: 3031: 3007: 2990: 2978: 2966: 2942: 2894: 2875: 2858: 2794: 2740: 2659: 2609: 2586: 2562: 2534: 2522: 2491: 2467: 2455: 2431: 2419: 2395: 2383: 2104:Miller sees Frodo's encounter with the 1177:, was similarly the bearer of the ring 481: 14: 8145: 6211:The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game 4399:The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late 3678: 3525:William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 3371: 3109: 3073: 2653: 2217:Frodo cuts off the Barrow-wight's hand 1969:different perception of time's speed. 1955:different perception of time's speed. 1686:'s analysis of Tolkien's river angles 60:in which time proceeds differently in 6350: 5393: 4095: 3481: 3141: 2830: 2647: 2621: 2280:Death and immortality in Middle-earth 1534: 1504:explicitly references both Dunne and 1498:", and notes that his friend Lewis's 945:, again using dream as the mechanism 6691:The History of The Lord of the Rings 6306:The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game 3707: 3433:Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 3334: 3322: 2694: 2056: 1188:, escaping from the dark tunnels of 18:Time travel in The Lord of the Rings 5529:Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings 3605:. Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire: 2273: 1901:flows much more slowly in Elfland. 24: 8103:Tolkien, Race and Cultural History 7977:The Complete Guide to Middle-earth 6292:Middle-earth Collectible Card Game 4036:. Boston, New York, & London: 2833:"The Ultimate Time Travel Machine" 2398:, Part 2, "The Notion Club Papers" 229:with a conception of time travel. 208:Dreams and visions in Middle-earth 25: 8169: 8068:Tolkien and the Invention of Myth 6324:Middle-earth Strategy Battle Game 6254:Gondor: The Siege of Minas Tirith 2900:"Tolkien's Experiment with Time: 2206:Frodo calls Tom Bombadil for help 1896:Returns to find all friends dead, 1016:A better time in the distant past 998:Flieger comments that had either 6667:The Lost Road and Other Writings 6376: 4288: 4001:The Lost Road and Other Writings 3046:, pp. 60-63 and throughout. 2622:Kragh, Helge (1 December 2000). 2047:decline and fall in Middle-earth 1777:Long ago, in "the Elder Days ... 1679:more" might be exactly correct. 1151:decline and fall in Middle-earth 1022:Decline and fall in Middle-earth 875:), the prehistoric North in the 830:The Lost Road and Other Writings 519:The Lost Road and Other Writings 386: 342:, in which he presented a multi- 70:decline and fall in Middle-earth 8153:Themes of The Lord of the Rings 7984:A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien 7861:Poems and Songs of Middle Earth 7583:Finnish language and literature 6553:The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien 5338:The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien 3459:The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien 2824: 2528: 2485: 2473: 2446:, book 2, ch. 1 "Many Meetings" 2389: 2386:, Part 1, ch. 3 "The Lost Road" 2377: 2365: 2331:preservation, she writes, they 1786:Elfland where time is different 1087:to industrialise and to pollute 907:can no longer be sailed by Men 8124:The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien 8096:Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth 7373:Ancestry as guide to character 6509:The Adventures of Tom Bombadil 6023:The Battle for Middle-earth II 5784:Peter Jackson's interpretation 5286:The Adventures of Tom Bombadil 4439:Ancestry as guide to character 3461:: Revised and Expanded Edition 2763: 2734: 2705: 2688: 2333:illustrate a Christian message 2325:, book 2, ch. 6, "Lothlórien" 2212:Frodo calls Elbereth for help 1719:The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, 1120:, book 2, ch. 6, "Lothlórien" 1069:, and the cataclysmic fall of 983:to hold back time and change. 202:Turning away from present time 187:illustrate a Christian message 13: 1: 8033:J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia 6497:The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen 6218:The One Ring Roleplaying Game 4213:The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen 3667:J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia 3638:. 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The miniature from the 1319: 1287:, Audoin/Alboin, Amandil/ 956:in Tolkien's legendarium 439:, in 1938. Tolkien began 375:, and two members of the 296:. The cultural historian 164:, then in the unfinished 8054:The Road to Middle-Earth 7920:Middle-earth Enterprises 6566:The three "Great Tales" 4069:Tolkien On Fairy-stories 1979:"in the world outside". 1824:, and the Danish ballad 1184:The eight companions of 564:, begun in 1936–37, and 527:Devin Brown, writing in 472:Out of the Silent Planet 436:Out of the Silent Planet 7875:An Evening in Rivendell 7748:Margrethe II of Denmark 7627:A mythology for England 5960:Vol. II: The Two Towers 5677:The War of the Rohirrim 5478:Margrethe II of Denmark 4649:A mythology for England 3719:Oxford University Press 3488:An Experiment with Time 2718:Continuum International 2296:death and deathlessness 2063:with discernible rhythm 1741:The forefathers of the 1670:, and the Loudwater or 1545:England in Middle-earth 1510:An Experiment with Time 1442:An Experiment with Time 1384:Lost in the gardens of 813:The Lost Road 561:The Lost Road 339:An Experiment with Time 179:escape from immortality 56:. In this, Tolkien was 7998:Master of Middle-Earth 7520:Psychological journeys 7084:First and Second Ages 6936:First and Second Ages 6698:The Notion Club Papers 6636:The Book of Lost Tales 6483:The Return of the King 6460:The Shadow of the Past 5981:The Return of the King 5720:The Return of the King 5665:The Return of the King 5565:The Battle of Evermore 4549:Psychological journeys 4192:The Shadow of the Past 4180:The Return of the King 3907:The Return of the King 3747:The Notion Club Papers 2906:The Notion Club Papers 2819:The Notion Club Papers 2770:Inchbald, Guy (2019). 2662:Literature and History 2327: 2309: 1952:"all else fleets by". 1807: 1626:the second one "death" 1575: 1496:The Notion Club Papers 1474:; it cites Einstein's 1320:Time-travel mechanism 1250: 1227:Time travel in fiction 1159:sundering of the Elves 1122: 1048:split into many groups 1013: 1004:The Notion Club Papers 989:, the Elvish realm of 914:The Notion Club Papers 567:The Notion Club Papers 525: 448:The Notion Club Papers 429: 237: 181:. The Tolkien scholar 167:The Notion Club Papers 8110:Tolkien's Legendarium 7854:The Road Goes Ever On 7796:The Lord of the Rings 7781:The Lord of the Rings 7657:A Map of Middle-earth 7400:Death and immortality 7203:Red Book of Westmarch 6716:The War of the Jewels 6651:The Lays of Beleriand 6572:The Children of Húrin 6467:The Council of Elrond 6446:The Lord of the Rings 5653:The Lord of the Rings 5617:The Lord of the Rings 5597:The Lord of the Rings 5585:The Lord of the Rings 5538:The Lord of the Rings 5451:A Map of Middle-earth 5352:The Children of Húrin 5310:The Road Goes Ever On 4454:Death and immortality 4404:The Road Goes Ever On 4381:A Elbereth Gilthoniel 4199:The Council of Elrond 4144:The Lord of the Rings 4124:The Lord of the Rings 3913:The Lord of the Rings 3881:The Lord of the Rings 3142:Beare, Rhona (1996). 2981:, pp. 38–47, 97. 2831:Brown, Devin (1997). 2314: 2300: 2278:Further information: 2146:for help against the 2042:The Lord of the Rings 2007:The Lord of the Rings 1799: 1790:Further information: 1582:writes that what the 1552: 1539:Further information: 1472:The Sense of the Past 1352:The Sense of the Past 1239: 1225:Further information: 1131:The Lord of the Rings 1109: 1107:Over a bridge of time 1102:The Lord of the Rings 1100:Further information: 1095:The Lord of the Rings 1075:The Lord of the Rings 1035:The Lord of the Rings 1008: 963:The Lord of the Rings 897:Tolkien's legendarium 895:in the Second Age of 803:Time-travel mechanism 556:The Lord of the Rings 549:Further information: 502: 491:Further information: 460:The Inklings scholar 454:The Lord of the Rings 426:The Lord of the Rings 422:Tolkien's legendarium 420:Navigable diagram of 419: 215: 172:The Lord of the Rings 91:The Lord of the Rings 45:The Lord of the Rings 7889:At Dawn in Rivendell 7882:A Night in Rivendell 7869:The Tolkien Ensemble 7703:Brothers Hildebrandt 7225:Two Trees of Valinor 6588:The Fall of Gondolin 5902:Journey to Rivendell 5609:Hordes of the Things 5373:The Fall of Gondolin 5061:Watcher in the Water 5029:Witch-king of Angmar 4226:List of translations 4064:Anderson, Douglas A. 3854:. pp. 394–395. 3842:Drout, Michael D. C. 3672:Taylor & Francis 3662:Drout, Michael D. C. 3642:. pp. 169–182. 3609:. pp. 647–650. 3597:Drout, Michael D. C. 3251:"A Question of Time" 3020:Ford & Reid 2011 2051:her prophetic mirror 2037:The Idea of the Holy 1950:Elves change little, 1838:The Tolkien scholar 1578:The Tolkien scholar 1129:realms described in 1067:Two Trees of Valinor 624:Over 9,000 years ago 482:Development of ideas 240:The Tolkien scholar 185:suggests that these 86:their Rings of Power 7393:Round World dilemma 6945:Eärendil and Elwing 6598:The Fall of Númenor 5923:War in Middle Earth 5869:The Hunt for Gollum 5423:The Last Ringbearer 4709:Narrative structure 4704:Impression of depth 4321:Company of the Ring 4028:Christopher Tolkien 3996:Christopher Tolkien 3938:Christopher Tolkien 3693:. pp. 95–106. 3595:(2006). "Time". 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Oswald 551:Ælfwine (Tolkien) 357:Jorge Luis Borges 278:quantum mechanics 235:a film adaptation 170:, and finally in 156:George du Maurier 128:quantum mechanics 97:Thomas the Rhymer 16:(Redirected from 8165: 8061:Splintered Light 7676: 7675: 7500:Northern courage 7425:Environmentalism 7405:Decline and fall 7328:Tolkien's poetry 7247: 7246: 6965:Finwë and Míriel 6787: 6786: 6741:John D. Rateliff 6618: 6617: 6545:Unfinished Tales 6528:The Silmarillion 6424: 6423: 6389:J. R. R. Tolkien 6371: 6364: 6357: 6348: 6347: 6173:Fate of Gundabad 6131:Rise of Isengard 6102: 6101: 6074:Shadow of Mordor 6053:War in the North 6001:Game Boy Advance 5696: 5695: 5642: 5641: 5400:derivative works 5391: 5390: 5331:Unfinished Tales 5324:The Silmarillion 5106: 5105: 4757: 4756: 4534:Northern courage 4479:Environmentalism 4459:Decline and fall 4394:Song of Eärendil 4304: 4303: 4292: 4137:J. R. R. 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Index

Time travel in The Lord of the Rings
philologist
J. R. R. Tolkien
time travel
The Lord of the Rings
Men
Elves
following medieval tradition
Elfland
On Fairy-Stories
decline and fall in Middle-earth
Norse mythology
Rivendell
Lothlórien
their Rings of Power
The Lord of the Rings
Thomas the Rhymer
Elvehøj (Elf Hill)
science fiction
H. G. Wells
Sigmund Freud
quantum mechanics
general relativity
Max Planck
Albert Einstein
J. W. Dunne
an influential book
Henry James
George du Maurier
The Lost Road

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