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Showing posts with label John Garth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Garth. Show all posts
14 July 2024

Mani Aroman, Tolkien's Beardless Men

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  Some months back John Garth and I were discussing the phrase "Mani Aroman," which is found in The Return of the Shadow as a pos...
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28 November 2022

Tolkien between two publishers, feeling like a fool

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14 April 1950 Dear Unwin, It was odd that our letters crossed. I might have waited a day longer; but the matter is for me becoming urgent. W...
23 August 2022

The Wheel of Fire: Between Thought and Expression

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'And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. And I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.' ( RK  6.i.919) 'I am...
22 March 2021

Review of Holly Ordway -- "Tolkien's Modern Reading: Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages"

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In this well made, thoroughly researched, and clearly written book, Holly Ordway has at long last rid us of the false notion that Tolkien n...
06 June 2016

In the Dead Marshes We Hear No Larks at Morning

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Paul Nash, We Are Making A New World, Imperial War Museum Since at least the twelfth century larks at morning have featured in Engli...
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01 December 2015

Abraham, Wilfred, and John at the Pyre of Denethor (RK 5.vii.850-57)

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The Parable of the Young Man and the Old So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went, And took the fire with him, and a knife. And as the...
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28 September 2015

An Allusion to Rupert Brooke in Tolkien?

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In addressing the assumptions of some readers that The Lord of the Rings  was about World War II, Tolkien reminds us that he had been in Wor...
22 March 2015

Tolkien Reading Day 2015 -- On Friendship

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The other day, thanks to  +Jeremiah Burns , I read a BBC article on a 98 year old woman whose mother gave her the middle name of 'Somm...
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