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The Ring of Words describes the powerful and unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien's earliest employment was as an assistant on the staff of the OED, and he later said that hehad 'learned more in those two years than in any other equal part of [his] life'.Here three authors, themselves senior editors of the OED, engage directly with Tolkien's language and his fictional world. Two discursive sections explore Tolkien as a lexicographer and his creativity as a word user and creator; while the main section of the book is made up of individual 'wordstudies' which explore words found in Tolkien's fiction in terms of their origins, development, and significance in his fictional world. Words such as 'hobbit', 'attercop', 'precious', 'Smeagol', and 'waybread' are explored in fascinating detail.The Ring of Words offers a new and unexplored angle on the creative world of one of our most famous and well-loved writers, presenting new archive material for the first time.… (más)
Se trata de un libro especialmente interesante para los que compartimos con Tolkien el gusto por las palabras y su historia particular.
Tres miembros del Oxford English Dictionary (OED) desgranan la historia común del OED y Tolkien para más tarde cubrir una amplia selección de palabras en la obra de Tolkien. Entre esas palabras encontramos: elf, dwarves, ent, even, Carrock, eored, etc.
El libro presenta una documentación y estudio previos impecables, típicamente "OED-ianos"... ( )
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Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them, Fair the fall of songs When the singer sings them. Robert Louis Stevenson
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Preface Nay, I have worried at whiles even over the tongues of Men, but Melo take them! they shift and change, change and shift, and when you have them are but a hard stuff whereof to labour songs or tales. (Rúmil, in The Book of Lost Tales; HME I.47) The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes J. R. R. Tolkien as 'writer and philologist'.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
The Ring of Words describes the powerful and unique relationship between Tolkien's creative use of language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien's earliest employment was as an assistant on the staff of the OED, and he later said that hehad 'learned more in those two years than in any other equal part of [his] life'.Here three authors, themselves senior editors of the OED, engage directly with Tolkien's language and his fictional world. Two discursive sections explore Tolkien as a lexicographer and his creativity as a word user and creator; while the main section of the book is made up of individual 'wordstudies' which explore words found in Tolkien's fiction in terms of their origins, development, and significance in his fictional world. Words such as 'hobbit', 'attercop', 'precious', 'Smeagol', and 'waybread' are explored in fascinating detail.The Ring of Words offers a new and unexplored angle on the creative world of one of our most famous and well-loved writers, presenting new archive material for the first time.
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Tres miembros del Oxford English Dictionary (OED) desgranan la historia común del OED y Tolkien para más tarde cubrir una amplia selección de palabras en la obra de Tolkien. Entre esas palabras encontramos: elf, dwarves, ent, even, Carrock, eored, etc.
El libro presenta una documentación y estudio previos impecables, típicamente "OED-ianos"... (