A space for the discussion of the life, works, and influence of British author and academic J.R.R. Tolkien.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited “Doworst” by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Disappeared Poem in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe whereabouts of the manuscript of “Doworst” by Tolkien are unknown. This paper reproduces what is known of the text and comments on its history.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited “Doworst” de J.R.R. Tolkien: Um Poema Desaparecido in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoO paradeiro do manuscrito de “Doworst” por Tolkien é desconhecido. Este artigo reproduz o que se conhece do texto e comenta sobre sua história.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Concordance among the Calendars of Middle-earth – Endóreva Astanótië in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThe prime source of information about Middle-earth calendars is Appendix D to Prof. J. R. R. Tolkien’s translation of the Red Book of Westmarch. Thence have these quotations been extracted, in order to achieve a concordance among our reckoning of months and days on the one hand, and the five systems known to have been employed by the Eldar, the H…[Read more]
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Concordância entre os Calendários da Terra-média – Endóreva Astanótië in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA principal fonte de informações sobre os calendários da Terra-Média é o Apêndice D da tradução do Livro Vermelho do Marco Ocidental feita pelo Prof. J.R.R. Tolkien. Foi dali que se extraíram estas citações, para obter uma concordância entre nossa contagem dos meses e dias por um lado, e por outro lado os cinco sistemas que se sabe terem sido…[Read more]
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited The Location of Mount Dolmed on Maps from the First and Third Ages in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoMount Dolmed (from Sindarin dol + med “wet head”) rose in the First Age above an important pass through the Blue Mountains, between Beleriand and Eriador.
The great dwarven cities of Gabilgathol [Nogrod in Sindarin] and Tumunzahar [Belegost] were built in its vicinity, to the southeast and northeast respectively.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Elvish Handwriting Styles in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoSome examples from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Elvish handwriting
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Lendo Tolkien em livros publicados no Brasil in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoLivros de J.R.R. Tolkien publicados no Brasil até agosto de 2020
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Gondolinic Runes in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoThese runes are known to us only from a slip of paper written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The analysis is in English and Portuguese.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited J.R.R. Tolkien Writing Tengwar in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoAn analysis of Tolkien’s writing dynamics based on a video of him writing in tengwar
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I saw this video at the Bibliotheque National de France exhibition. My eye was caught by his apology for a mistake. “Something I just made up” can’t have a mistake in it — he thought of the Tengwar as a real writing system.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Songs for the Philologists in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoRevised and reset from the 1936 original
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Thanks for transcribing & posting this. I’ve always wanted to see what this was.
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A bit opaque, maybe, for those like me who aren’t much knowledgeable in ancient Germanic tongues – but a pleasure anyway.
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Ronald Kyrmse deposited Tolkien’s Tengwar Text of The Lay of Leithian in the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA partial analysis of the Lay written by JRRT in Elvish characters
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Ronald Kyrmse started the topic Starting a collection of articles in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 5 months agoA collection of my articles on Tolkien – with a very slight bias towards Brazilian readers – has been started. I would have posted more but for a failure to upload / deposit, which is being investigated by the technical team at HC.
The bias towards Brazilians comes from the fact that I have translated into Portuguese a fair number of works by and…[Read more]
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Megan N. Fontenot started the topic This year's Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoI have an essay in this year’s Tolkien Studies. It’s called “The Art of Eternal Disaster: Tolkien’s Apocalypse and the Road to Healing.” Be sure to check it out!
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Megan N. Fontenot started the topic Tolkien and Francis Thompson in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 7 months agoMy paper on Tolkien and Francis Thompson (presented at Mythcon last year and subsequently published in Mythlore) is now freely available to download! Check it out!
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Joe Hoffman started the topic Where hobbits live in Britain in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoA paper about hobbit names I wrote a couple of years ago. It is perhaps more fun than digital-humanities papers usually turn out to be.
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Megan N. Fontenot replied to the topic My collection of essays on Lord of the Rings in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoExcellent! I look forward to reading these!
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Patrick McEvoy-Halston started the topic My collection of essays on Lord of the Rings in the discussion
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months agoJust a notice that my collection of essays on Lord of the Rings is already up on the Commons. Overall about the book being more a prompt to not adventure, than a lead to doing so (and so as I found out, similar to Moorcock’s conception of it): http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/nv66-zq22
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Megan N. Fontenot created the group
Tolkien Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 9 months ago