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Tom Shippey is essential reading for any fan of Tolkien’s works. In this work, he responds to Tolkien’s critics and expands the boundaries of study for his works. It is a sense work that took me quite a long time to work though when compared to his Author of the Century book.
It is here that Shippey delves deeply into philology - a study of words that was abandoned (suppressed?) by academics many years ago. It was a subject Tolkien was passionate about and one that Shippey commits this book to c ...more
It is here that Shippey delves deeply into philology - a study of words that was abandoned (suppressed?) by academics many years ago. It was a subject Tolkien was passionate about and one that Shippey commits this book to c ...more
Nov 11, 2010
Norbert
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it was amazing
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Eccellente testo di analisi e critica letteraria. Dovrebbe essere letto come uno dei libri "base" da chiunque voglia studiare le opere di Tolkien. L'autore è un filologo e ha occupato la stessa cattedra universitaria di letteratura inglese tenuta da Tolkien, presso l'università di oxford
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