The Road Goes ever on and on: Re-reading The Lord of the Rings in Lockdown

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Keywords:

Tolkien, lockdown, walking, belonging, stories

Abstract

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Author Biography

David McLaughlin, University of York

Associate Lecturer, Department of Environment and Geography, University of YorkAssociate Editor for Literary Reviews, Transfers journal

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Hones, S. (2014) Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in ‘Let the Great World Spin’. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

McLaughlin, D. (2018) Mobile Holmes: Sherlockiana, travel writing and the co-production of the Sherlock Holmes stories. PhD diss. University of Cambridge.

Rose, M. (2016) ‘A Place for Other Stories: Authorship and Evidence in Experimental Times.’ GeoHumanities, 2(1), pp. 132-148.

Tolkien, J.R.R. (2005) The Lord of the Rings. London: HarperCollins.

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Published

2020-12-23

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Thinking Space

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