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David Day

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in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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Science Fiction & Fantasy, Poetry, Outdoors & Nature

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David Day (b. 14 October 1947 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian author of over forty books: poetry, natural history, ecology, mythology, fantasy, and children's literature. Internationally he is most notably known for his literary criticism on J. R. R. Tolkien and his works.

After finishing high school in Victoria, British Columbia, Day worked as a logger for five years on Vancouver Island before graduating from the University of Victoria. Subsequently he has travelled widely, most frequently to Greece and Britain.

Day has published six books of poems for adults and ten illustrated children's books of fiction and poetry. His non-fiction books on natural history include The Doomsday Book of Animals, The Whale War, Eco Wars: a Layman ...more

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	A Tolkien Bestiary by David Day (Goodreads Author), Nancy Davis (Editor) 4.02 avg rating — 6,755 ratings — published 1978 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia 4.14 avg rating — 4,217 ratings — published 1991 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolkien's Ring by David Day (Goodreads Author), Alan Lee (artist) (Illustrator) 4.22 avg rating — 1,562 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolkien: An Illustrated Atlas 4.12 avg rating — 1,095 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The "Hobbit" Companion 4.12 avg rating — 474 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battles of Tolkien 3.54 avg rating — 481 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolkien: A Dictionary 4.25 avg rating — 538 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Heroes of Tolkien 3.81 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World of Tolkien 3.93 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2003 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Powers of Tolkien 3.91 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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David Day made a comment in the group Lewis Carrol — Riddles and the Mad Hatter topic " Answers to the Raven Writing Desk riddle: Poe wrote at both, bills and tales are among their characteristics, both slope with a flap, both have inky q ...more "
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David Day answered a question about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded: How does this compare to The Annotated Alice? Extract from Amazon reader review "I have long been a fan of AIW and for years my favourite reference has been the various incarnations of Martin Gardner's Annotated Alice - it is now my second favourite, surpassed by David Day's Alice's Adventures in See Full Answer
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David Day made a comment on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Decoded: The Full Text of Lewis Carroll's Novel with its Many Hidden Meanings Revealed — Decoding Wonderland " If you are interested in the subtext to be discovered in Wonderland, please see the attached video on this recent ground breaking book (no 5 on Maclea ...more "
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David Day made a comment in the group Lewis Carrol — Carrol's Writing Style (Alice in Wonderland) topic " Has anyone noticed that Lewis Carroll’s fairy tale about a young girl’s descent underground is literally the oldest story in the world? Originally ent ...more "
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“Both [Satan and Melkor/Morgoth] are loud in their defiance, claiming that they would "rather rule in hell than serve in heaven". One might have admired these rebel angels if one believed their defiance was in the name of liberty- however, both lied. Their rebellions were only provoked by envy and the usurpers' wishes to take the perceived tyrants' place. Never were two more natural tyrants than Morgoth and Satan.”
― David Day

tags: evil, liers, melkor, morgoth, tolkien, tyrants

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“The castle, and all it represents, will always be with us. Once it was born, once the stone was made living, the repository of power made real, the idea could never be unmade. Even if all the castles of all the world were destroyed, in the minds of men they would be built anew; the wizard called imagination would raise high walls and towers out of ruins.”
― David Day, Castles

tags: castle, castles, ideas, imagination, last-page

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“Much as people might like to stress their attachment to particular territories, all societies have originally come from somewhere else to live in the lands they presently occupy. Moreover, the future will see some of them move elsewhere, in whole or in part, or be transformed over time by the immigration of other peoples into their midst. People can reconcile themselves to these often beneficial changes by recognizing that no society has ever had the exclusive possession of their land for all time and by acknowledging that the world is not only the ancestral land of us all but will remain as the wider homeland of everyone.”
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tags: conquest, cosmopolitanism, immigration

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