Tolkien’s Spell
Peter Godman, 21 July 1983
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays
by J.R.R. Tolkien, editor Christopher Tolkien .
Allen and Unwin, 240 pp., £9.95, March 1983,0 04 809019 0 Show More
by J.R.R. Tolkien, editor Christopher Tolkien .
Allen and Unwin, 240 pp., £9.95, March 1983,
The Road to Middle-Earth
by T.A. Shippey.
Allen and Unwin, 252 pp., £9.95, September 1982,0 04 809018 2 Show More
by T.A. Shippey.
Allen and Unwin, 252 pp., £9.95, September 1982,
Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode
by J.R.R. Tolkien, editor Alan Bliss.
Allen and Unwin, 180 pp., £9.95, January 1983,0 04 829003 3 Show More
by J.R.R. Tolkien, editor Alan Bliss.
Allen and Unwin, 180 pp., £9.95, January 1983,
“... Among the terms of abuse which J.R.R. Tolkien was accustomed to apply to an Oxford college of which he was (and I am) a member, there is one that makes an odd impression. It is the adjective ‘medieval’, pointedly used in its pejorative sense by this philologist and professor of Anglo-Saxon. As Anglo-Saxon scholar and philologist Tolkien is not remembered by the world at large, although this is the aspect of his work that W ... ”