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The Hobbit Essays – Middle-earth Reflections
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The Lord of the Rings Essays. Elvish poetry in The Hobbit. In my essay dedicated to poetry in Tolkien’s books. I have spoken about the importance of verse in Arda. Spanning a significant period in the Third Age,. No exception, and its many poems and songs scattered all over the book are very representative of the peoples who sing them. In the present essay I will look into the Elvish poetry in. And see what it tells us about the fair folk. Continue reading “Elvish poetry in The Hobbit.”. March 13, 2017.
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When nature strikes back. – Middle-earth Reflections
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The Lord of the Rings Essays. When nature strikes back. In all my works I take the part of trees as against all their enemies. J R R Tolkien, Letter 339). The Lord of the Rings. I am (obviously) much in love with plants and above all trees, and always have been; and I find human maltreatment of them as hard to bear as some find ill-treatment of animals. When mistreated trees in Tolkien’s works strike back. One of the best examples of this is the Old Forest. Unfriendly to strangers the fores...Fangorn fac...
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Tolkien and Fantasy: April 2012
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Musings on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature. Sunday, April 22, 2012. Academic publishing is at root a kind of scam. The publishers get away with not paying academics (or paying them very little) because academics mostly need the publishing credits and the exposure which is vital to their academic survival, and they are (supposedly) earning a living by teaching. This was the traditional model for the bulk of the twentieth century. With regard to an academic journal, like Tolkien Studies. 8220;Academi...
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Tolkien and Fantasy: November 2013
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Musings on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature. Monday, November 25, 2013. Five Notes on C.S. Lewis. With the fiftieth anniversary of C.S. Lewis’s death, there has been a lot of media coverage about Lewis, and in the midst of which there has appeared one new book collecting writings by Lewis that I’d like to call attention to, lest its publication be drowned out by other coverage. This is Image and Imagination: Essays and Reviews. A trade paperback original. And a Kindle ebook. This is a short piece of...
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Tolkien and Fantasy: March 2015
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Musings on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. An updated checklist of Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien, and Corrections to the printings of TOLKIEN ON FAIRY-STORIES. Volume 1 (2004), I published "Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien: A Checklist". An updated version was requested for the festschrift in honor of Shippey, published last summer as Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey. Appendix: Recent Work—Shippey on Tolkien Since 2004",. Had two hardcover printings,...
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Tolkien and Fantasy: November 2011
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Musings on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature. Sunday, November 27, 2011. For some time now I have been working with Evangeline Walton's literary heir, Debra L. Hammond, both in sorting the archive of papers and in preparing new Walton publications. Some of the first fruits have begun to appear, so I'd like to bring notice to them here. First, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Where further information can be found. We will post further news there as things develop. Douglas A. Anderson.
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Tolkien and Fantasy: An updated checklist of Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien, and Corrections to the printings of TOLKIEN ON FAIRY-STORIES
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Musings on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature. Tuesday, March 31, 2015. An updated checklist of Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien, and Corrections to the printings of TOLKIEN ON FAIRY-STORIES. Volume 1 (2004), I published "Tom Shippey on J.R.R. Tolkien: A Checklist". An updated version was requested for the festschrift in honor of Shippey, published last summer as Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey. Appendix: Recent Work—Shippey on Tolkien Since 2004",. Had two hardcover printings,...
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Contributors – The Grote Club
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Victorian Philosophy in the Modern World. Grote Club in America. Follow The Grote Club on WordPress.com. Is a member of Wolfson College, Cambridge and the Centre for British Idealism. He has contributed extensively to the history of ideas, of politic and ethics, and is a co-founder of the international journal. Theory , Culture and Society. Simon J. Cook. Was born in London, England, spent too many years at Cambridge, UK, and taught for five years at Duke University, North Carolina. Today he is an in...
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Tolkien and Fantasy: December 2011
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Musings on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature. Sunday, December 4, 2011. A quick post here to say that Michael Saler's long-awaited book, As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality. Is on the threshold of publication. I say threshold because the Kindle edition is currently available (click here. Is currently priced at $27.95 (though who knows if Amazon may discount it after publication). Recommended. Update 12/12* The trade paperback is now in stock. Click here. 1988; rev...
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Tolkien and Fantasy: September 2013
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Musings on Tolkien and modern fantasy literature. Thursday, September 19, 2013. Lost in Translation (the German one, specifically). With commercial work one usually benefits financially in a modest way from the sale of translation rights. Yet for me, most translations have been a source of problems and aggravations, and this has been a recurrent situation now for over two decades. Was first published in 1988, with a revised edition in 2002,. Basically, the only way I’ve ever gotten paid for transla...
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