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A moving and thoughtful tribute, this book, originally published in 1979, offers fourteen essays dedicated to the memory of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892?1973). The contributors, a distinguished group of his friends, colleagues, and former students, address a wide and diverse range of subjects. The first part of the book contains material on Tolkien the man and the scholar. It includes his obituary notices from The Times of London and his valedictory address at Oxford in which he points out, eloquently and purposefully, the artificiality of the split between language and literary study. The second part consists of critical essays representing Tolkien?s major scholarly interests?Old Norse, Old English, and Middle English literatures. The last part includes three pieces on Tolkien?s popular writings, particularly The Lord of the Rings, and a bibliography of his published writings.… (más)
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Preface J. R. R. Tolkien has long been known to the world as a superb storyteller.
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My argument will be circular: both that to understand The Lord of the Rings we have to understand the true nature of romance; and that romance can be understood as the kind of thing that The Lord of the Rings is: a familiar dilemma in literary studies which, like life itself, require that we make an initial leap of faith, or at least, of sympathy. [from Derek S. Brewer, "The Lord of the Rings as Romance"; p. 249]
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As for that bold and overbearing tyrant, Augustus Bonifacious Ambrosius Aurelianus Antoninus, from whom Farmer Giles and the dragon so tolerantly declared their independence, he must surely be either the demands of modern literature, or else any modern literary tyrant.
A moving and thoughtful tribute, this book, originally published in 1979, offers fourteen essays dedicated to the memory of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892?1973). The contributors, a distinguished group of his friends, colleagues, and former students, address a wide and diverse range of subjects. The first part of the book contains material on Tolkien the man and the scholar. It includes his obituary notices from The Times of London and his valedictory address at Oxford in which he points out, eloquently and purposefully, the artificiality of the split between language and literary study. The second part consists of critical essays representing Tolkien?s major scholarly interests?Old Norse, Old English, and Middle English literatures. The last part includes three pieces on Tolkien?s popular writings, particularly The Lord of the Rings, and a bibliography of his published writings.
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