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- Title
THE BLACK SPEECH: THE LORD OF THE RINGS AS A MODERN LINGUISTIC CRITIQUE.
- Authors
JARMAN, CODY
- Abstract
The article analyzes the language and rhetoric used in the service of evil in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel "The Lord of the Rings" as a modern linguistic critique and the divorce of true meaning from speech. Topics discussed are the relationship between myth and language as demonstrated by the debates between the heroes and villains in the novel, dramatization of the conflict between good and evil and of linguistic theory, and the abstract nature of speech.
- Subjects
LORD of the Rings book series; TOLKIEN, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973; RHETORIC in literature; MYTH in literature; HEROES in literature; GOOD &; evil in literature
- Publication
Mythlore, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0146-9339
- Publication type
Article