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| | EducationGuardian.co.uk higher news Universities look to Middle Earth for academic inspiration |
 | | The interest of serious scholars, as opposed to fans, is indicated by the launch in the US of Tolkien Studies, a journal more concerned with the influence of Finnish folklore on the myths of Middle Earth than with indulging hobbit fantasies. |
 | | Mr Drout, an associate professor of English at Wheaton College, in Norton, Massachusetts, is anxious to distance his journal from fanzine type articles, like the memoirs of Gollum. |
 | | He told the US-based Chronicle of Higher Education: "Someone can write an article like the one I'm hoping to run soon that offers a poststructuralist-psychoanalytic reading of Gollum," he said. |
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