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Feb 22, 2016
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This is another work that is purely for fans of Tolkien who want to better understand the underpinning's of his works and potentially the inspirations.
I am an admitted Tolkien geek, but don't consider myself a scholar. I was very interested to learn about the stories that influenced Tolkien's works and am glad to have the opportunity to read many of them that have been published by his son Christopher by way of translations by his father.
In this work, Shippey does a wonderful job of speaking to ...more
I am an admitted Tolkien geek, but don't consider myself a scholar. I was very interested to learn about the stories that influenced Tolkien's works and am glad to have the opportunity to read many of them that have been published by his son Christopher by way of translations by his father.
In this work, Shippey does a wonderful job of speaking to ...more
The Road to Middle-earth sets out the creation of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, consisting of The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, and then explores it critically – not from a "literature" perspective that was often at-odds with Tolkien (and Tolkien at odds with it), but from the scholarly viewpoint that Tolkien himself approached the writing of his life's work from. Once I got past the bewildering (to me, anyway) introduction that draws much on discussions of philology, I found
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