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Bookwomble
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Pickpick

This is a lovely little book, covering Kilby's stay with the Tolkiens in the summer of 1965, invited by JRRT to give him "editorial and critical assistance", and an impetus to focus on his authorial task at a time when age and the distractions of a fame to which he was ambivalent combined with a natural dilatoriness and a tendency for his interests to be "Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread". His personal impressions of ?

Bookwomble ... Tolkien's character are fascinating.
He goes onto a sketch of the composition of the Silmarillion, something that Christopher Tolkien later greatly expanded upon, then a consideration of how Tolkien's Christianity is embedded in his work, not as deliberately as that of C.S. Lewis but as a natural effect of his deep belief, and rounds up with a consideration of the three major Inklings, JRRT, Lewis and Charles Williams.
Lovely! 😊
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Leoslittlebooklife What a lovely cover! 2w
Bookwomble @Leoslittlebooklife It's vibrantly coloured, isn't it, which is what struck my eye as I took it off the shop's bookshelf 😍 2w
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Next up, a memoir of Kilby's summer assisting JRRT with his Silmarillion materials, after which he was asked to read the manuscript prior to publication. Kilby's book was published 1976, the year before The Silmarillion, so his impressions will be personal & unaffected by its general & critical reception.
Kilby was an Inkling scholar, with several academic books about Tolkien, Lewis and the others, so I'm also expecting it to be well-considered.

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Daisey
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Chiasmus: a figure of speech in which the grammar of two parallel phrases is inverted

#WeirdWordWednesday #WeirdWords #FellowshipOfTolkien #MedievalTolkien

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Daisey
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From “Speech and Silence in The Lord of the Rings: Medieval Romance and the Transitions of Eowyn”

#FellowshipOfTolkien #MedievalTolkien

BarbaraJean I hadn't heard of this book--and it sounds fabulous! I've just discovered I can check it out on Hoopla. (Adding it to the reading list now!) 3w
Daisey @BarbaraJean It‘s been on my list for a while now. I don‘t know that I‘ll do more than read an essay randomly, but I‘m so glad to have finally started it! 3w
JazzFeathers I'm always interested in reading about Tolkien's female characters. I think there's so much more to them than so many readers give them credit to. 3w
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Daisey
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After finishing The Fall of Arthur this morning, I pulled this book from my shelf this evening. In the introduction, the description of this essay relating Eowyn to a female medieval knight seemed a perfect complement to my earlier reading. It‘s a truly interesting analysis of Eowyn‘s character development from court lady to acting lord of Rohan to shield maiden and finally to wife and healer.

#FellowshipOfTolkien #MedievalTolkien

Leftcoastzen 🐶👏 3w
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3w
JazzFeathers I've needed to get this book for such a long time! 3w
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bookishbitch
Tolkien: Treasures | Catherine McIlwaine
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Pickpick

One of my current hyper fixations is J.R.R.Tolkien. I stumbled across this and knew I needed it. It has a bit of info about his life and his writing. However, it is mostly photos of his artwork. I only learned recently how much of an artist he was. This is a quick read, and I'm glad I found it.

Daisey I haven‘t seen this one you‘ve read, but I do love the book I have about his art! 3mo
bookishbitch @Daisey Oh, that one looks good too! 3mo
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I had just purchased this tagged book for my brother when I read this in A Letter for Mary.As a very young precocious reader,my brother was wild for Tolkien & owned many first editions.He lost everything in a fire when wild fires in CA burned down his house,garage, brewery.His family got out;he suffered burns on his arms. Fortunately I had borrowed his letters from Father Christmas, so he has this original book.We sibs celebrate #Jólabókaflóðið

AnnCrystal That's horrible 📚 glad he escaped 🙏💝. 3mo
Jari-chan I'm sorry for what happened to your brother, but am glad that they got out 🙏 3mo
kspenmoll @AnnCrystal @Jari-chan This happened about 15 years ago- they rebuilt & all is well. Thank you for your concern- Tolkien throws be back to that time. (edited) 3mo
LeahBergen I‘m sure he‘s going to love this gift! ❤️ 3mo
AnnCrystal @kspenmoll that's good 😘💝. 3mo
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AshRaye
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I've always been interested in both of these writers and the way they worked together. Having a story like this truly made me happy and enjoyed every second of it. The story felt more like a discovery, it didn't shy away from teaching some things about stories in general, while still relating to the overall story of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. It was beautifully done.

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Andrea313
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Anyone else partaking in the #TolkienBirthdayToast? At 9 pm, I'll have the tagged book in one hand and a whisky in the other! #TheProfessor #BooksAndBooze

Daisey I‘ll be starting The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and enjoying a toast! 1y
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Andrea313
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Both #TomKitten and #ColeCat are doing their best to thwart my year-end reading. Really trying to knock out a few more titles over here, but cats are gonna be cats, eh? #CatsOfLitsy #BlackCats

dabbe 🖤🐾🐾🖤 1y
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ElizaMarie They are just the best! 1y
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