Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Flirtations with minor celebrity

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For those who haven’t seen it yet, I was recently interviewed for PBS NewsHour. Not the television program, but their website. You can read ...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

Deep discount on my book!

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The Kindle edition of my book is now available at a fantastic discount as part of a limited-time promotion by McFarland and Amazon. The sof...
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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Mystery Tolkien passage, solved!

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A passage caught my eye in Alliterative Poetry in Middle English (Volume 1), by James Parker Oakden and Elizabeth Ruth (Manchester Univ...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Sméagol — what’s in a name?

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On Facebook today, Marcel Aubron-Bülles sent out an appeal to linguistically minded Tolkien scholars, tapping me on the shoulder along with ...
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Monday, December 3, 2012

Reconstructed lexis in Tolkien and Gordon’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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I recently posted a list of reconstructed word-forms compiled from Tolkien’s Middle English Vocabulary , which met with some enthusiasm. Th...
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Friday, November 30, 2012

Reconstructed lexis in Tolkien’s Middle English Vocabulary

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Most of my regular readers are aware that Tolkien’s first published book was a glossary of Middle English compiled to accompany Kenneth Sisa...
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Monday, October 22, 2012

How to review books

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I read reviews, I edit them, and I write them. It stands to reason, then, that I ought to have some opinions about book reviewing. Moreove...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Book giveaway!

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Attention, fans of Ursula K. Le Guin, Earthsea, and free stuff! Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Simon & Schuster have worked together to p...
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Friday, September 28, 2012

WOTD: Tooken

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Tooken isn’t a word. This is what you hear from the prescriptive grammarians and their acolytes. If they have children, sooner or later they...
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