Medieval History
- New Book Examines The Influence Of Medieval Welsh On Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote: ?I love Wales?and especially the Welsh language?. Now, a Cardiff University academic has explored Wales? influence on Tolkien in the first book-length study of his debts to Welsh language and literature. Tolkien and Wales: Language,...
- Atherton On Tolkien (trans.) & Tolkien (ed.), Beowulf
J.R.R. Tolkien (trans.) and Christopher Tolkien (ed). Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell. London: HarperCollins, 2014. 448pp. Reviewed by Mark Atherton Beowulf is "the major piece of Old English verse...
- Leigh Smith Reviews C. Vaccaro, The Body In Tolkien's Legendarium
Please find Leigh Smith's review of Christopher Vaccaro, The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium (McFarland, 2013) at Medievally Speaking. The review was curated by Ilse Schweitzer-Vandonkelaar. Tolkien?s view of the body is a delicate issue for a...
- Vincent Ferré On Tolkien, The Hobbit, And More
Medievally Speaking's Vincent Ferré on Tolkien, The Hobbit, and more, on France5 ....
- Middle-earth Minstrel
McFarland recently published Bradford Lee Eden, ed., Middle-earth Minstrel Essays on Music in Tolkien. The publisher's description reads: "The twentieth century witnessed a dramatic rise in fantasy writing and few works became as popular...
Medieval History
Smol Reviews Ferré, Dictionnaire Tolkien
Anna Smol recently reviewed: Dictionnaire Tolkien. Ed. Vincent Ferré. Paris: CNRS Éditions, 2012.
J.R.R. Tolkien?s fiction is read around the world, having been translated into dozens of languages, from Vietnamese and Korean to Slovak and Catalan to French, German, and Italian.1 Critics have commented on Tolkien?s work throughout the late twentieth century, but the last fifteen years have seen a surge in the scholarly attention paid to it. Anglophone scholars have organized numerous academic conferences, produced a steady stream of new books and articles by university presses or specialist publishers such as Walking Tree, and established peer-reviewed journals such as Tolkien Studies and, most recently, The Journal of Tolkien Research. The francophone world has also witnessed an increase in activity since the turn of this century, with print and online sources being produced and conferences and conventions organized to discuss Tolkien?s work. The Dictionnaire Tolkien makes a significant contribution to this growing body of scholarship, providing French general readers, students, and academics information about Tolkien?s ?uvre as well as summarizing current research and laying a foundation for further investigations.
The editor of the Dictionnaire, Vincent Ferré, is a leading French Tolkien scholar? Read the rest of the review HERE.
- New Book Examines The Influence Of Medieval Welsh On Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote: ?I love Wales?and especially the Welsh language?. Now, a Cardiff University academic has explored Wales? influence on Tolkien in the first book-length study of his debts to Welsh language and literature. Tolkien and Wales: Language,...
- Atherton On Tolkien (trans.) & Tolkien (ed.), Beowulf
J.R.R. Tolkien (trans.) and Christopher Tolkien (ed). Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell. London: HarperCollins, 2014. 448pp. Reviewed by Mark Atherton Beowulf is "the major piece of Old English verse...
- Leigh Smith Reviews C. Vaccaro, The Body In Tolkien's Legendarium
Please find Leigh Smith's review of Christopher Vaccaro, The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium (McFarland, 2013) at Medievally Speaking. The review was curated by Ilse Schweitzer-Vandonkelaar. Tolkien?s view of the body is a delicate issue for a...
- Vincent Ferré On Tolkien, The Hobbit, And More
Medievally Speaking's Vincent Ferré on Tolkien, The Hobbit, and more, on France5 ....
- Middle-earth Minstrel
McFarland recently published Bradford Lee Eden, ed., Middle-earth Minstrel Essays on Music in Tolkien. The publisher's description reads: "The twentieth century witnessed a dramatic rise in fantasy writing and few works became as popular...