Reading Tolkien and History
Benjamin BassettTolkien, writing and archaeology
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When the Music doesn’t Reach You: The failure of meaning in The Mariner’s Wife and The Children of Húrin
In Tolkien’s Children of Húrin , the main hero character provokes, almost single handedly, the complete destruction of a large Elven kingdom and presumably the slaughter of almost all of its inhabitants. Without exaggeration, this is one of...
Professor Michael Drout: The Tower and the Ruin
Professor Michael Drout speaks to me about his fascinating and deeply moving new literary memoir cum detailed literary analysis The Tower and the Ruin. Drout’s book, published December 2nd, analyses Tolkien from the persective of one reader...
What Do We Mean by 'Good Writing'? Tolkien and the Critics
When I still had a Twitter account, I used to follow quite a few ‘literary’ types—translators with names like “Alexanderplatz,” critics, and others for whom the tradition of European (and other) literature in the 20th century was their abid...
Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation
In my last post, I interviewed Giuseppe Pezzini, the author of a new volume on Tolkien, Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation. Our discussion touched a range of topics introduced in the book, centring (unsurprisingly) on Tolkien's cr...
Interview: Giuseppe Pezzini
Here, I interview author and academic Giuseppe Pezzini, who has released a new book, Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation, published by Cambridge University Press.
Unfortunately, the audio is not always great, and despite my effor...
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