Wednesday, November 5, 2014

C.S. Lewis and the Inklings: Faith, Imagination, and Modern Technology

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With the ink almost dry, the time has come to share the news of a new collection on the Inklings that I co-edited with my colleagues Salw...
Monday, November 3, 2014

Jonah and the Colocynth

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After more than five years of (recent) anticipation, which might easily have stretched on indefinitely, Tolkien’s translation of Jonah has...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Forgotten habits

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In a recent post about puns on “hobbit”, I wrote: The first usage to come close to this is the exchange of letters to the editor of The ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Tolkien Studies delayed

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The world of academic publishing sometimes moves at about the same speed as the earth’s tectonic plates. At the risk of stating the obvious,...
Friday, September 5, 2014

The surprising longevity of one Tolkien essay — and a new Tolkien collection

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Almost a year ago, out of the blue, I got a request to reprint one of my essays on Tolkien in a Gale reference collection I was told was b...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Bad puns can be hobbit-forming

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In a recent post to the Mythopoeic Society’s email listserv, John Rateliff shared an early reference to Tolkien in Robert Heinlein. John w...
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Monday, June 9, 2014

Another new Tolkien collection from McFarland

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The books keep rolling off the presses! I’ve just gotten the final table of contents from Brad Eden for his new collection, The Hobbit in To...
Tuesday, June 3, 2014

New Book on Tolkien and Modernism

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Even though he lived at the right time for it and went through many of the same experiences that formed the crucible of Modernism, Tolkien...
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Sunday, March 9, 2014

New Tolkien collection — and a new publication credit

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A little more than two years ago now, I received an interesting inquiry from Didier Willis, the President of “Le Dragon de Brume”, a small ...