Monday, April 28, 2008

Leading a Reading Room discussion this week

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For you of you who haven’t heard of the Reading Room at TheOneRing.net — known affectionately as TORn, you’re really missing out. Though a...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Friday Diversion: Tolkien in the Golden Age of Hollywood

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I’ll let this clever piece of film editing speak for itself. Peter Lorre makes a great Gollum, doesn’t he? Enjoy! :)
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Thursday, April 24, 2008

Middle English “half trolls” and “ogres” — according to Tolkien

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Not too long ago, I wrote about the Old English eoten (which is usually translated “giant”), as attested only in Beowulf . The word died o...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Truths Breathed Through Silver

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My copy of Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings’ Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy arrived yesterday from the U.K. It’s a small but well-...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

An ‘inkling’ of what I’ve been up to recently

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Good day, all. I’m working on a new post about some particular elements in Tolkien’s edition and translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Kni...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

Tolkien 2008 Conference Report

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I intended to write up a post-op of my recent trip to Tolkien 2008 at the University of Vermont earlier this week, but I came back from the ...
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Monday, April 7, 2008

Tolkien 2008 at the University of Vermont

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It’s been about nine months or so since I last posted about the annual Tolkien conference at UVM* in Burlington, Vermont, but it’s that tim...
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Thursday, March 27, 2008

A new book on the Inklings

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News on Truths Breathed Through Silver: The Inklings’ Moral and Mythopoeic Legacy , edited by Jonathan Himes and published by Cambridge Scho...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Cleaning out the liquor cabinet

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As you know by now, I’m in the middle of moving after eight years at the same address. And with moving (especially after eight years! ;) com...
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