Why TV Is Wrong For Tolkien

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SOURCES

Mikhail Bakhtin, "Epic And Novel", from The Dialogic Imagination
https://books.google.es/books?id=cblaBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Hans Blumenberg, "Work On Myth"
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521338/work-on-myth/

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MUSIC (via Epidemic Sound)

Deskant "The King's Carpet"
Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen "A Highlander's Tale"
The Fly Guy Five "Gaze into the Mirror"
Helmut Schenker "The Secret Spring"
Sven Lindvall "I'll Go With You"

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