Thursday, March 24, 2016

Decennial conference

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I wrote last June about a conference to which I’d been invited as a Special Guest. As that conference is only a week away now, I’m late sha...
Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Tolkien Studies Volume 12

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It's been a long time coming this year, but it seem the 2015 volume of Tolkien Studies is finally right around the corner. The West V...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015

A new review of my book — from a surprising reviewer!

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It’s been four years since Tolkien and the Study of His Sources appeared, so you can imagine my surprise at seeing a new, and quite s...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Scattered leaves

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Several libraries hold copies of books once owned by Tolkien, often inscribed and in some cases annotated by him. I’ve been fortunate enough...
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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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