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Book Reviews England managed to keep Victorian and Edwardian views the socially dominant ones for forty years after the First World War. Tolkien's thinking passes back through fantasy writers such as E.R. Eddison, John Masefield, Kenneth Morris, Lord Dunsany and Kenneth Grahame to William Morris's late romances and the nostalgic, pastoralist Georgian poets of his childhood. It is there that he belongs, rather than with such writers of his adult years as Eliot, Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis or Auden. COLIN MANLOVE EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in "The Lord of the Rings," by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Gilson. Mountain View, CA: Parma Eldalamberon, 2007. 220 pp. $35.00 (oversize paperback) [no ISBN]. Parma Edalamberon XVII. Any reader of The Lord of the Rings who has jotted down lists of Elvish vocabulary and puzzled endlessly over the significance of unglossed words and names such as Rhudaur, edraith and Tol Brandir will have dreamed of a book in which all the words are laid out, all the riddles are answered and--this being Tolkien--new vistas are opened up to delight the imagination. As a child of ten or twelve, I literally dreamed of stumbling across such a volume
Tolkien Studies – West Virginia University Press
Published: Jun 14, 2009
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