Friday, February 22, 2008

“Old entish swords” in Beowulf and Tolkien

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Did y’all miss me? Apologies for the paucity of posts over the preceding days (heh, Germanic alliterative verse on the brain — read on!), bu...
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Silmarillion studies: past, present, and future

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Feedback continues to roll in on The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On . This time, I’d like to share some comments from Doug Kane, whose book, ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Another upcoming publication

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After more than a year in preparation, Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy , a new encyclopedia edited by Robin Reid and forthcoming from ...
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Thursday, February 7, 2008

There’s a copy of the Tolkien Encyclopedia near you — maybe

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For anyone keeping score, the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment that I’ve written so much about is both expe...
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

A new review

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Andy Higgins has reviewed two new Tolkien books over at his blog, Wotan’s Musings . These are The Frodo Franchise , which I haven’t read mys...
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Friday, February 1, 2008

More readers’ assessments of S:TYO

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Earlier this week I stumbled on two threads discussing The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On . Both began with capsule reviews — or perhaps it’s...
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Monday, January 28, 2008

News on the Tolkien Encyclopedia Diary

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About eight months ago, I introduced the Tolkien Encyclopedia Diary to Lingwë readers. This was an ambitious project to systematically rev...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

I’ve been reviewed ... a bit

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Up to this point, I haven’t seen any of my publications on Tolkien and the Inklings reviewed — with only one exception: reviews of my entrie...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Max and Leo "fighting"

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Beowulf has nothing on my puppy Leo’s radical combination of dog, cat, and monkey fighting techniques! And check out the crazy noises he mak...
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