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The Quest for the Empirical Hobbit:
A Comparative Study of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Leif Jacobsen
To the future Mrs Leif Jacobsen,
whomever that might be,
as a precaution, but also (hopefully),
because I love you
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
Oh no, it is an ever-fixèd mark,
that looks on tempests, and is never shaken.
(William Shakespeare)
I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago,
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.
But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.
(J.R.R. Tolkien)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ON HOBBITS AND QUESTS
AGON - THE CONFLICT
Part I: The Fellowship
Part II: On our own
PATHOS - THE DEATH-STRUGGLE
ANAGNORISIS - THE RECOGNITION
CONCLUSION
WORKS CITED
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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