6. Example: Quantitative Analysis of Imagery

Dark and Light Imagery (“Light (noun, 1) or Light (adjective, 14b)?: Female Bodies and Femininities in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”)

Quantitative analysis of the light/dark/neutral elements from grammatical features (nouns, adjectives, color imagery, and verb/processes) from scenes featuring five female characters in _The Lord of the Rings_.

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This table is adapted from my original analysis which appeared in my chapter in _The Body in Tolkien’s Legendarium: Essays on Middle-earth Corporeality_, edited by Christopher Vaccaro, McFarland, 2013, pp. 98-118.

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