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Flieger's book 'Splintered Light' is one of the classics of Tolkien scholarship, and the book is full of really fascinating insights. But whenever I read Flieger I always feel that something is a little off. Some of her conclusions just -barely- don't work. It's like she's in the uncanny valley of scholarship, being so close to amazing but just far enough away to be odd. For instance, Flieger's understanding of Tolkien in this present book would be really fascinating if it weren't for her insist
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Verlyn Flieger is amazing. She really and truly gets Tolkien and mythology. The depths of what it is Tolkien has created are elucidated by any of her works. I can't recommend this highly enough for any student of mythology or faery or lover of Tolkien's work.
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Been wanting to read this for years, at least since reading Owen Barfield's "Poetic Diction" (which I need to reread). I'm interested to see if this account of Tolkien's and Barfield's philosophy of language will fit in an interesting way with the hermenuetic phenomenology I'm getting into, or whether they will be at odds with each other-- I'm inclined to speculate that while both parties, say, Ricoeur and Barfield, would possibly fight over how to define things, etc, there is still a common pas
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Thought-provoking, fascinating, and deeply insightful, Flieger's work is well and truly worth the read for anyone who loves or even admires Tolkien's work.
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