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• The Novelized Epic: Dialogue and Laughter in The Lord of the Rings
  In The Lord of the Rings the combined elements of the epic and the novel do not result in an unapproachable epic; instead, The Lord of the Rings as a novel liberates the epic genre from “all that serves as a brake on [its] unique development," creating an amalgamation of the two forms in dialogue with one another, a novelized epic.
  • Bakhtin
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