Marjorie Burns is a scholar of English literature, best known for her studies of J. R. R. Tolkien. Marjorie Jean Burns was born in 1940. She gained her...

pearl-maiden in the 14th-century English poem Pearl. Another scholar, Marjorie Burns, compares Galadriel in multiple details to Rider Haggard's heroine Ayesha...

creation and its fall, even Melkor having begun with good intentions. Marjorie Burns has commented that Tolkien used the Norse god Odin to create aspects...

like a rabbit, and is indeed served rabbit for supper. The scholar Marjorie Burns notes, too, that Gandalf's association with Eagles is reminiscent of...

and the nature of his characterisation, by the scholar of literature Marjorie Burns. Some of the chapters discuss "Celtic" and "Norse" influence on Tolkien's...

Marjorie Taylor Greene (née Taylor; born May 27, 1974), sometimes referred to by her initials MTG, is an American far-right politician, businesswoman,...

but Brittonic, related to Welsh carreg, "a stone". The medievalist Marjorie Burns notes the tension between "British" and Norse in Tolkien's handling...

literature Marjorie Burns writes that one of the female Vala, Varda (Elbereth to the Elves) is sung to by the Elf-queen of Middle-earth Galadriel. Burns notes...

translation of the Völsunga saga when he was a student. Further, as Marjorie Burns states, Tolkien's account of Bilbo Baggins and his party setting off...

Aragorn: both restore their ancestor's kingdoms in all their glory. Marjorie Burns believes that Bard is a humble hero like Aragorn, Faramir and Gandalf...