... writer. Tolkien was inspired by epic legends and Norse mythology, the same subjects that Lucas drew from. Tolkien also was an expert on epic legend as often gave lectures on Beowulf. The structural approach to literature talks about the similarities between tales that follow the structural approach. The characters are parallel, in the case of Lord of the Rings and Star ... and the fact that both tales fail to recognise female characters strongly relates the two. It seems likely that what he had learned from writing The Hobbit and from reading Beowulf through the lenses of Middle-earth, ...

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