First man and Green Man: Archetypal parallels between Tolkien's Middle Earth, pagan Europe and Christian modernism.

摘要

This thesis establishes that in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , certain archetypal characters are present within the text in more than one incarnation. The biblical Adam as represented by the character Tom Bombadil, as well as the pagan Green Man as represented by the character Treebeard, function as nature protector figures within archetypal criticism. A nature protector figure was included twice within the text due to Tolkien's extremely anti-modernist sentiment. He also attempted to reconcile his Romantic and Catholic beliefs regarding nature.