Enlightening the Cave: Gollum’s Cave as a Threshold between Worlds in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Riddles in the Dark”
This article presents a parallel reading of the chapter “Riddles in the Dark” from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Plato’s Allegory of the Cave that appears in The Republic. Plato’s metaphysical and epistemological views, known as the theory of forms, provide the theoretical foundation for the analy...
Main Author: | Katariina Kärkelä |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
2019-06-01
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Series: | Fafnir |
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Online Access: | http://journal.finfar.org/articles/1752.pdf |
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