tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post3016247373256403407..comments2024-03-11T16:29:13.619-05:00Comments on Lingwë - Musings of a Fish: More loose leaves on Tolkien’s PearlJason Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-35325022199518435362010-09-18T14:48:10.080-05:002010-09-18T14:48:10.080-05:00Hi Lilly. Yes, I know Sisam’s book (with the gloss...Hi Lilly. Yes, I know Sisam’s book (with the glossary by Tolkien) very well. <i>A Middle English Vocabulary</i> was Tolkien’s first published book. It was supposed to be finished in time to appear <i>with</i> Sisam’s collection in 1921, but Tolkien didn't finish it until the next year. It was printed alone in 1922, and subsequently bound together with Sisam’s book after that. Mine is a 1964 printing.Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-24715676654839822752010-09-18T14:35:22.120-05:002010-09-18T14:35:22.120-05:00Hi Jason,
This is a really interesting post. I tho...Hi Jason,<br />This is a really interesting post. I thought I'd share with you a discovery my uncle and I made recently. We were flipping through "Sweets Anglo Saxon Primer" and when looking on the back cover of the book (9th edition), we saw a title listed. This title said: Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose, edited by Kenneth Sisam with a Middle English Vocabulary by J.R.R. Tolkien. We then realised that we both had this book, and had never realised there was a vocab by Tolkien! Have you got this book? It's quite a good book actually.....the vocab makes it even better than it already was. To think, my uncle had bought two copies of this book (2nd hand), given one to me when my interest for such things arose, and neither of us had ever realised that the vocab by Tolkien was there! Needless to say, it made our day:)! It's amazing what you discover sometimes. If you haven't got this book, I'd highly recommend it!Lillyput90noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-51850483304979963902010-09-18T10:52:23.441-05:002010-09-18T10:52:23.441-05:00Yes, that’s my impression as well. Not that I blam...Yes, that’s my impression as well. Not that I blame him a bit for this. He is a much older man who has already given a very great deal to the community of his father’s (sometimes cultish) fans. He certainly deserves to enjoy his retirement years and doesn’t (and never did) owe us any more letters. The generosity he has shown us all over the past four decades greatly exceeds what many executors would have done, and it would be very ungrateful to demand yet more, wouldn’t it? :)Jason Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05809154870762268253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9050528436539921312.post-41837990645175486902010-09-17T18:15:32.609-05:002010-09-17T18:15:32.609-05:00It seems that Christopher Tolkien was much more li...It seems that Christopher Tolkien was much more likely to reply to letters from fans in the 80s than he is nowadays... nowadays he seems to have contact with only a few specific people, who have in one way or another managed to establish contact with him.Ardamirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12535734219325255452noreply@blogger.com