For scholars interested in J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and other writers associated with the Inklings.
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Dennis Wise deposited A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter in the group
The Inklings on Humanities Commons 2 years agoThis essay explains the background for two famous essays on the alliterative meter by the Inklings, “The Alliterative Metre” (C.S. Lewis) and “On Translating Beowulf” (J.R.R. Tolkien). The latter essay, I argue, owes its final published form to a sense of academic urgency that Lewis’s own publication had unwittingly instilled in his friend Tolkien.
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Dennis Wise deposited Delving into Gnome Man’s Land: Two Traditions in Baum and Tolkien in the group
The Inklings on Humanities Commons 2 years agoDetails the usages of “gnomes” in L. Frank Baum and J.R.R. Tolkien