PECULIARITIES OF THE RECEPTION OF SCANDINAVIAN PROPER NAMES IN THE WORKS OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN “THE HOBBIT, OR THERE AND BACK AGAIN” AND “THE LORD OF THE RINGS”

Abstract

The article is dedicated to peculiarities of the reception of Scandinavian proper names in the works of the English writer J.R.R. Tolkien. The article examines the Scandinavian sources that influenced his works, as well as the techniques that the author uses in order to organically incorporate the borrowed names and plots into the fabric of his own personal mythology. The relevance of the study is related to the need to study the mythological basis of literature of 20 century, as well as the lack of study of views of scientific and mythological views of J.R.R. Tolkien in Russia. Descriptive method, methods of context and motive analysis, comparative method and etymological method are used in the work. The results show that, despite the numerous intersections in the names and plots, Tolkien’s works are not a compilation of borrowings, but an integral and original structure.