Beyond All Worlds: George MacDonald, the Pre-Tolkienians, and the Forgotten Possibilities of Fantasy

EP Stevens - 2022 - scholarworks.gvsu.edu
The history of modern fantasy has been powerfully shaped by the worldbuilding paradigm
so successfully executed in JRR Tolkien's 1954-55 trilogy The Lord of the Rings. However …

Making the Imaginary: Worldbuilders, and the Art of Ontogenous Play

G Urlich Lennon - 2021 - diva-portal.org
How we imagine and the potency of alternative imaginings to socio-political concerns are
vital questions for social science, and worldbuilding is a particular and understudied method …

SLUURM: Cultures and Communication in Video Game Spaces

B Krohnengold - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Relatively new to some, but with a thirty year history of growth and innovation, video games
have risen to prominence as one of the most critical forms of entertainment media over the …

Extending Arda: Mapping beyond the Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion

S Danielson - Journal of Tolkien Research, 2020 - scholar.valpo.edu
The canonical maps by Christopher Tolkien from The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion
cover only a small portion of the world of JRR Tolkien's legendarium. In the years since their …