Analyzing J. R. Tolkien's Secondary World

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Habermann and Kuhn discuss J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings is one of the creation texts of fantasy writings and the focus of a number of writings about the history, geography, and mythology of ‘Middle-earth’, which has long become an unusual phenomenon. The authors try to argue that Tolkien texts offer a fictional study of sustainability where they try to combine an application of geographic information system technique with documented analysis and understanding text to show that there is a systematic fluctuating distance between our real world and Tolkien’s secondary world as a respect to climate. The author is describing the Tolkien journey in the British Army during World War I, which may have prejudiced his fiction, mainly The Lord

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