Oxford Fantasy Podcasts
23 Jun, 2021
(edited)
2021/6/23 12:47:08 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
2021/6/23 12:47:08 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
An interview with Catherine McIlwaine on the Tolkien archive at Bodley and the exhibition of 2018 - Part 1.
Interview with Catherine McIlwaine, the Tolkien Archivist, by Stuart Lee on the Tolkien archive at Bodley. Part one contains details about the history of the archive, its relationship to the collection at Marquette University, how the collection came to be at Oxford and what it contains.
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-arch ... xhibition-bodleian-part-1
An interview with Catherine McIlwaine on the Tolkien archive at Bodley and the exhibition of 2018 - Part 2
Interview with Catherine McIlwaine, Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian. This second part deals with the 2018 exhibition itself, putting it together, and feedback from visitors.
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/tolkien-arch ... xhibition-bodleian-part-2
They also have a lecture on The Silmarillion
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/what-silmarillion
This lecture is an introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien's third major work, 'The Silmarillion' (1977), and considers its lengthy development in numerous prose and verse texts over fifty years.
This lecture offers a guided tour through the development of J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Silmarillion' corpus, inclusive of The Silmarillion (1977) and the earlier versions of the same work published in the History of Middle Earth series (1983-1996). The most mythological and magisterial of Tolkien's major works, the 1977 Silmarillion (and its antecedents) gives the reader a very different experience and perspective than his more famous and widely read works, The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955). A mythology in the true sense, the 'Silmarillion' corpus is peopled with gods and other preternatural beings and represents the earliest comprehensive work of Tolkien's imagination. Since it was begun in earnest in the middle of the First World War, one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, its tone is more sober and its events more tragic than those of his other classics, but its powerful messages of nobility in the face of defeat and courage in darkness resonate with the world events of the time in which it was produced.
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/what-silmarillion
Towards the beginning of the recording Ms. McIlwaine spoke about the contract that Tolkien signed with A&U for profit sharing on LOTR and how he didn't see any real money for the first few years after publication.
That got me wondering about the profit sharing agreements he had on (to that point) The Hobbit and Farmer Giles. I remember reading the details on this but can't remember where.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
That got me wondering about the profit sharing agreements he had on (to that point) The Hobbit and Farmer Giles. I remember reading the details on this but can't remember where.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Mr. Underhill wrote:
Towards the beginning of the recording Ms. McIlwaine spoke about the contract that Tolkien signed with A&U for profit sharing on LOTR and how he didn't see any real money for the first few years after publication.
That got me wondering about the profit sharing agreements he had on (to that point) The Hobbit and Farmer Giles. I remember reading the details on this but can't remember where.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
The earlier works were on a royalty basis, not profit sharing. I made a note of the terms from the A&U publishing ledgers many years ago:
The Hobbit
Terms: Roy E.E. in GB 10%: 12½% after 2,500; 15% after 5,000. (a. or b. ½p.p. 10% r. No roy a.l.t. cost) Cheaper edns above 2/6 10% a or b 2/6 5%. Export above cost 12½%. lt subj to roy 75% roy recd. Am. Dom. Col. Cont. Trans. Serial. Non-vis. Broadcasting, Am. Dram. Anthol rts. Art, to grant licenses 75% Cinema. talky picture. Television 80% (if re-assigned. A pay us 10% nr) Corr. 10%
Farmer Giles
Terms: 7½% rising 10% after 2,000 and 12½% after 5,000
Book Club Editions 10% or if in consideration of fee or royalty 50%. Other forms of reproduction 50% N.R.
Thought it would be useful to include this video as well by Tom Shippey.
Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues
Tolkien's turning point: Tolkien and the history of tongues
Tom Shippey's lecture will move from the detail to the (eventual) design of Tolkien's languages, and even the philosophical issues embedded in Tolkien's fiction.
Professionally speaking, Tolkien was a philologist, interested above all in the history and relationships of languages. Personally speaking, he was a self-declared 'niggler', who took immense pains over details. It was a vital moment when he solved a problem, which would have bothered few authors of fantasy, to do with the history and relationship of the languages of Middle-earth. It was this which opened up The Lord of the Rings to its full scale and sweep.
A Walk around C. S. Lewis's Oxford
https://writersinspire.org/content/walk-around-c-s-lewiss-oxford
Using the geographic touch points in Oxford, Professor Simon Horobin of Magdalen College, Oxford interweaves a biography of C. S. Lewis, his relationships with other writers, and the influences on his fantasy works.
https://writersinspire.org/content/walk-around-c-s-lewiss-oxford
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