Sunday, January 20, 2013

A Jewish analogue to The Doors of Durin

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It is well known to Tolkien scholars that the Dwarves were in some ways analogous to the Jews, both culturally and linguistically. Tolkien m...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

“More like a grocer than a burglar”

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I’m sure all of you remember Gloin’s rather unflattering first impression of Bilbo in the first chapter of The Hobbit : Humph! […] Will h...
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Christopher Tolkien, Warren Hamilton Lewis, and Laurence Housman

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Earlier this week, somebody called JPB posted a controversial op-ed on TheOneRing.net, “Concerning Christopher – An Essay on Tolkien’s Son...
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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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