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Death and Immortality in Middle-earth: Proceedings of The Tolkien Society Seminar 2016 is a book of essays on J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth that had been presented at the 2016 annual seminar of the Tolkien Society. This collection was overseen by Daniel Helen and published by Luna Press Publishing. It is the seventeenth book of the society's Peter Roe Series.

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  • Matthew B. Rose, "Tolkien and the Somme"
  • Tânia Azevedo, "Tolkien and T.S. Eliot: the waste land and a fallen king"
  • Irina Metzler, "Tolkien and disability: the narrative function of disabled characters in Middle-earth"
  • Giovanni Carmine Costabile, "Facing death: how characters in The Lord of the Rings meet the prospect of their own demise and the loss of others"
  • Aslı Bülbül Candaş, "The elven perspective of life, death and immortality, and its influence on humanity"
  • Anna Milon, Mortal immortals: the fallibility of elven immortality in Tolkien’s writing
  • Andrew Higgins, "‘Gifts in harmony?’: a philological exploration of Tolkien’s invented words for ‘life’ and ‘death’"
  • Sarah Rose, "Music of life: the creation of Middle-earth"
  • Gaëlle Abaléa, "Transmission: an escape from death in Tolkien’s work?"
  • Massimiliano Izzo, "Recurrent pattern of the Fall in Tolkien’s legendarium"
  • Adam B. Shaeffer, "Frodo and Saruman: euformation, dysformation, and immortality in The Lord of the Rings"
  • Dimitra Fimi, "‘Tears are the very wine of blessedness’: joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings"

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