12 Jan, 2022
2022/1/12 14:26:16 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
Hi all, and Happy New Year.
I wanted to bring to your attention the recent (Nov 2021) publication of A Sense of Tales Untold: Exploring the Edges of Tolkien's Literary Canvas from Kent State University Press. You can read a bit about it on the publisher's website: https://www.kentstateuniversitypress.com/2021/a-sense-of-tales-untold/
12 Jan, 2022
2022/1/12 16:57:51 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
As you may have noticed (from the blurb I provided), I read this book in draft. It's an important and insight-filled monograph, thoughtfully formed and elegantly written by a major Tolkien scholar in the making (or perhaps more accurately, in the revealing). Highly recommended.
2022/2/3 15:31:14 (GMT) Greenwich Mean Time, London, Dublin, Lisbon, Casablanca, Monrovia
I’m currently reading this and enjoying it very much. There are some terrific insights and I’ve always found what Tolkien left unsaid or unexplored to be as important as the things he elaborated - perhaps more so. Great book.
I’m reading it hard on the heels of Carl’s superbly edited “The Nature of Middle Earth”, which it seems to compliment in some ways. They both deal with “filling in the corners”, as Hobbits would say.