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Ringbearers : The Lord of the Rings Online as intertextual narrative
Ringbearers\" collects together essays by established and leading figures within Game Studies, each focused on different aspects of the Massively Multiplayer Online game \"The Lord of the Rings Online\". The collection is essential reading for those looking to better understand the adaptation into online game form of Tolkien's fictional world, as well as those seeking to comprehend the design and uses of online games. This makes \"Ringbearers\" an ideal textbook for students and scholars of interactive fictional media. The authors played the game extensively, yet they each come to it with different questions. Some essays focus on what players do with and in the game, whether that means asking about the opportunities provided for role-play or asking how the knowledge that fans bring to the game informs their experience of it. Others focus on the design of the game: for example the handling of narrative and its temporal dimensions, the articulation of core themes into ludic form, or the representational and aural strategies used by the game.
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The Frodo franchise : the Lord of the rings and modern Hollywood
\"Once in a lifetime.\" The phrase comes up over and over from the people who worked on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings. The film's seventeen Oscars, record-setting earnings, huge fan base, and hundreds of ancillary products attest to its importance and to the fact that Rings is far more than a film. Its makers seized a crucial moment in Hollywood—the special effects digital revolution plus the rise of \"infotainment\" and the Internet—to satisfy the trilogy's fans while fostering a huge new international audience. The resulting franchise of franchises has earned billions of dollars to date with no end in sight. Kristin Thompson interviewed seventy-six people to examine the movie's scripting and design and the new technologies deployed to produce the films, video games, and DVDs. She demonstrates the impact Rings had on the companies that made it, on the fantasy genre, on New Zealand, and on independent cinema. In fast-paced, compulsively readable prose, she affirms Jackson's Rings as one the most important films ever made.
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Emily Dickinson in Love
From the award-winning author of Poe the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind \"The Mystery of Marie Roget\"
comes a compelling argument for the identity of Emily Dickinson's true love
Proud of my broken heart
Since thou didst break it,
Proud of the pain I
Did not feel till thee . . .
Those words were written by Emily Dickinson to a married man. Who was he?
For a century or more the identity of Emily Dickinson's mysterious \"Master\" has been eagerly sought, especially since three letters from her to him were found and published in 1955. InEmily Dickinson in Love, John Evangelist Walsh provides the first book-length treatment of this fascinating subject, offering a solution based wholly on documented facts and the poet's own writings.
Crafting the affair as a love story of rare appeal, and writing with exquisite attention to detail, in Part I Walsh reveals and meticulously proves the Master to be Otis Lord, a friend of the poet's father and a man of some reputation in law and politics. Part II portrays the full dimensions of their thirty-year romance, most of it clandestine, including a series of secret meetings in Boston.
After uncovering and confirming the Master's identity, Walsh fits that information into known events of Emily's life to make sense of facts long known but little understood-Emily's decision to dress always in white, for instance, or her extreme withdrawal from a normal existence when she had previously been an active, outgoing friend to many men and women.
In a lengthy section of Notes and Sources, Walsh presents his proofs in abundant detail, demonstrating that the evidence favors one man so irresistibly that there is left no room for doubt. Each reader will decide if he has truly succeeded in making the case for Otis Lord.
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A socio-economic study of ritual functionaries (SEVAKS) of world-famous shri Jagannath temple, Puri, India
This research analyses the impact of the world-famous Lord Sri Jagannath Temple on the socio-economic conditions of the ritual functionaries of the temple of Puri in eastern India. The number of Ritual Functionaries has increased over a period of time but the rituals are remaining constant. The study reveals that the majority of the ritual functionaries are not getting adequate remuneration directly from the rituals due to multiplication of families over generations. But they have been getting their income indirectly from the pilgrims who are visiting the temple. The new generations have also started seeking jobs and doing business for their livelihood, but whenever their family's turn comes for rituals in the temple, they take it as an opportunity to serve the Lord without missing their turn. The economic analysis shows that there is wide variation in the earnings of the ritual functionaries depending on the type and number of days of service allotted to them per month. There is a scope for deployment of the ritual functionaries during their free time to serve the tourist, who are coming directly to the temple and other types of tourist who are staying in the hotels. In this way, they can earn a decent income for them thereby improving their standard of living. Time has come to allot the visitors to the functionaries and attach them to the local hotels to act as the guide to the visitors in a systematic manner. It will help all the functionaries to earn more income. The tourist will also get full satisfaction with their visit. In this manner, Puri can be placed as a major religious tourist spot in the world.
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Citizen Lord : Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798
Tells the story of the Irish revolutionary, Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Son of a duke, heir to estates and influence, Lord Edward died in a Dublin gaol, a rebel and a traitor. The book looks at how this happened, and explores the hidden relationships in his life.
Bachelors of a different sort
The bachelor has long held an ambivalent, uncomfortable and even at times unfriendly position in society. This book carefully considers the complicated relationships between the modern queer bachelor and interior design, material culture and aesthetics in Britain between 1885 and 1957. The seven deadly sins of the modern bachelor (queerness, idolatry, askesis, decadence, the decorative, glamour and artifice) comprise a contested site and reveal in their respective ways the distinctly queer twinning of shame and resistance. It pays close attention to the interiors of Lord Ronald Gower, Alfred Taylor, Oscar Wilde, Charles Shannon and Charles Ricketts, Edward Perry Warren and John Marshall, Sir Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines, Noël Coward and Cecil Beaton. Richly illustrated and written in a lively and accessible manner, Bachelors of a different sort is at once theoretically ambitious and rich in its use of archival and various historical sources.
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The alpine zen
\"An unsettling visit from Ren Rawlings, a strange young woman in search of the mother who abandoned her, sparks Emma's curiosity--especially when the woman suddenly collapses and lands in the hospital. Matters become even more baffling when Emma's husband, Sheriff Milo Dodge, finds a corpse and Ren claims that the remains are those of her father\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Magma production along the Lord Howe Seamount Chain, northern Zealandia
One of the world’s most notable intraplate volcanic regions lies on the eastern Australian plate and includes two age-progressive trails offshore (Tasmantid and Lord Howe seamount chains) and the world’s longest continental hotspot trail (Cosgrove Track). While most studies agree that these chains formed by the rapid northward motion of the Australian plate over a slowly moving mantle source, the volcanic output along these trails, their plate–mantle interactions and the source of the magmatism remain unconstrained. A geophysical mapping and dredging campaign on the RV Southern Surveyor (ss2012_v06) confirmed the prolongation of the Lord Howe Seamount Chain to the South Rennell Trough, ∼200 km further north than previously sampled. Radiometric dating of these new samples at 27–28 Ma, together with previously published results from the southern part of the chain, indicate straightforward northward motion of the Australian plate over a quasi-stationary hotspot as predicted by Indo-Atlantic and Pacific hotspot models. A peak in Lord Howe Seamount Chain magmatism in late Oligocene time, also seen in the Tasmantid and Cosgrove trails, matches a 27–23 Ma slowdown of Australian plate motion. The average magma flux of the Lord Howe hotspot is estimated at 0.4 m3 s−1, similar to rates of crustal production at the South Rennell Trough prior to cessation of spreading in middle Oligocene time, supporting a potential genetic relationship to this spreading system. In addition, plate tectonic modelling suggests that the seamounts and plateaus in the Coral Sea may host the earliest evidence of plume activity in the area.
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