Monday, August 31, 2015

A standalone edition of The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun — in Serbian!

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Although the text of Tolkien’s Lay of Aotrou and Itroun has been floating around the Internet for ages, it has been difficult to get ...
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Thursday, August 20, 2015

Horcruxes: analogues and sources

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As you know, I’ve be reading the Harry Potter books again. I’ve also been working on the bookshelves in my office at home. This has involv...
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Tolkien and L.W. Forster

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It is well known and now often repeated that for Tolkien, language came first, story second. In answer to an inquiry from The New York Time...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2015

News and updates

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It’s been a while since I’ve written. I hope some of you are still checking back here for new posts and haven’t given up on me! The purpose ...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Three Gudgeons

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I’ve just finished The Prisoner of Azkaban , and in addition to a few small points that have caught my eye on this latest reading, I’ve go...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

More on Tolkien and the Nobel Prize

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It’s old news now that Tolkien was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by C.S. Lewis in 1961. But I was doing a little poking around...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

A quick observation about The Chamber of the Secrets

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Hello, friends! I’m onto The Chamber of Secrets in my latest reading of the Harry Potter series, and I’ve noticed something interesting in ...
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Thursday, January 8, 2015

First mainstream appearance of tengwar outside Tolkien?

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A few months ago, I wrote about the history of the hobbit/habit pun ( read the post ). During the course of that discussion, I referred to...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Return to Hogwarts … again

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I’m opening 2015 by reading the Harry Potter series again. For about the tenth time (I can’t be certain, as I didn’t start scrupulously trac...
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