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... Tolkien offered a contrary example in ' Fog on the Barrow - Downs ' when Tom Bombadil spread out the treasure on the grass ' free to all finders ' without any greed on his part . 95 Tolkien , Return of the Shadow , 79 . 96 MS Tolkien A ...Synopsis
Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of fantasy literature. Drawing upon other new materials such as his edition of the Reeve's Tale and his Oxford lectures on the Pardoner's Tale, this book reveals Chaucer as a major influence upon Tolkien's literary imagination.Book Details
Published
September 26, 2019
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pages
450
ISBN
9780192580306