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This category is for essays, lectures, studies, letters and other short works of non-fiction by J. R. R. Tolkien. Pages in category "Essays by J. R. R. Tolkien" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
John S. Ryan, reviewing the book for VII, called it a "luminous companion" to the 12 volumes of The History of Middle-earth, and "clearly indispensable". [2] Ryan stated that it "pays a much merited tribute" [2] to Christopher Tolkien's six decades or more of work on his father's writings, indeed from his childhood as one of the original audience for The Hobbit.
The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983. All of them were initially delivered as lectures to academics, with the exception of " On Translating Beowulf " , which Christopher Tolkien notes in his foreword is ...
Further, Tolkien was a philologist; Nagy comments that Tolkien may have been intentionally imitating the philological style of Elias Lönnrot, compiler of the Finnish epic, the Kalevala; or of St Jerome, Snorri Sturlusson, Jacob Grimm, or Nikolai Grundtvig, all of whom Tolkien saw as exemplars of a professional and creative philology. [18]
A Tolkien Compass was published in paperback by Open Court in 1975. They brought out a second edition in 2003, adding a scholarly foreword by Tom Shippey. [1] The essays consisted mainly of Lobdell's selections from the first and second Conferences on Middle-earth. [8] The book has been translated into French, Swedish, and Turkish. [9]
The Tolkien scholar and philologist Tom Shippey suggests that Tolkien's detailed study of the word may have influenced him in his creation of elements of his fantasy world of Middle-earth, including the Silmarils or forged sun-jewels, the Balrogs or dark fire-demons, and the Haradrim, men of the hot south.
[8] She adds that "Tolkien preferred the monsters to the critics." [8] Regina Weinreich, reviewing The Monsters and the Critics: And Other Essays in The New York Times, wrote that the title essay "revolutionized the study of the early English poem Beowulf, in which a young hero crushes a human-handed monster called Grendel. Against the scorn of ...
Tree and Leaf is a small anthology of works by J. R. R. Tolkien published in 1964 [1] and originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes which consisted of: . a revised version of an essay called "On Fairy-Stories" (originally published in 1947 in Essays Presented to Charles Williams)