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Allan Turner (scholar)
Allan Turner is a linguist and medievalist, best known as a Tolkien scholar. His 2005 book ''Translating Tolkien'' and his 2013 book ''Tolkien's Poetry'' have been welcomed by other scholars. Life Allan Turner was born c. 1949. He was educated at Deacon's School, Peterborough. His bachelor's degree was in German at the University of Reading, where he also gained an M.Phil with a dissertation on ''Christi Leiden'', a medieval manuscript. He took another master's degree, in linguistics, at St John's College, Cambridge. He obtained a certificate in education at the University of Leeds. His PhD was in translation studies, from Newcastle University. He taught successively in the universities of Basel, Trier, Greifswald, and Marburg, and most recently in the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena until his retirement. He has written or edited several books on the fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien, and has appeared as a keynote speaker at Tolkien conferences. Reception ''Tolkien's Poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolkien Scholar
The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have generated a body of research covering many aspects of his High fantasy, fantasy writings. These encompass ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion'', along with Tolkien's legendarium, his legendarium that remained unpublished until after his death, and languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien, his constructed languages, especially the Elvish languages of Middle-earth, Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin. Scholars from different disciplines have examined the linguistic and literary origins of Middle-earth, and have explored Themes of The Lord of the Rings, many aspects of his writings from Christianity in Middle-earth, Christianity to Women in The Lord of the Rings, feminism and Tolkien and race, race. Biographical Biographies of Tolkien have been written by Humphrey Carpenter, with his 1977 ''J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography'' and of Tolkien's wartime years by John Garth (author), John Garth with his 2003 ''Tolkien and the Great War: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journal Of Tolkien Research
The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have generated a body of research covering many aspects of his fantasy writings. These encompass ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion'', along with his legendarium that remained unpublished until after his death, and his constructed languages, especially the Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin. Scholars from different disciplines have examined the linguistic and literary origins of Middle-earth, and have explored many aspects of his writings from Christianity to feminism and race. Biographical Biographies of Tolkien have been written by Humphrey Carpenter, with his 1977 '' J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography'' and of Tolkien's wartime years by John Garth with his 2003 '' Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth''. Carpenter edited the 1981 '' The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien'', assisted by Christopher Tolkien. The brief period after the war when Tolkien worked for the ''OED'' is detailed in the 2006 book '' The Ring o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lang (publisher)
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chennai, New York, and Oxford. Peter Lang publishes over 1,100 academic titles annually, both in print and digital formats, with a backlist of over 40,000 books. It has its complete online journals collection available on Ingentaconnect, and distributes its digital textbooks globally through Kortext. Areas of publication The company specializes in the following twelve subject areas: History The company was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1970 by Swiss editor Peter Lang. Since 1982 it has an American subsidiary, Peter Lang Publishing USA, specializing in textbooks for classroom use in education, media and communication, and Black studies, as well as monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Academic journals Peter Lang publishers 22 academic journals. Former journals published by Peter Lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walking Tree Publishers
Walking Tree Publishers was founded in 1996 by members of the (now defunct) Swiss Tolkien Society with the aim of publishing the proceedings of the Cormarë conference held that year to mark the 10th anniversary of the Swiss Tolkien Society. The company is run by volunteers and on a nonprofit basis, with surplus money reinvested into new products. It is dedicated exclusively to the publication of English-language works concerned with J. R. R. Tolkien and Tolkien studies. Publications Cormarë Series * Sherwood, Will, and Julian Eilmann (eds.). ''The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien.'' Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 51, * Honegger, Thomas. ''Tweaking Things a Little. Essays on the Epic Fantasy of J.R.R. Tolkien and G.R.R. Martin''. Walking Tree Publishers 2023, Cormarë No 50, * Gallant, Richard Z. ''Germanic Heroes, Courage, and Fate: Northern Narratives of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Legendarium''. Walking Tree Publishers 2024, Cormarë No 49, * Neub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festschrift
In academia, a ''Festschrift'' (; plural, ''Festschriften'' ) is a book honoring a respected person, especially an academic, and presented during their lifetime. It generally takes the form of an edited volume, containing contributions from the honoree's colleagues, former pupils, and friends. ''Festschriften'' are often titled something like ''Essays in Honour of...'' or ''Essays Presented to... .'' Terminology The term, borrowed from German, and literally meaning "celebration writing" (cognate with ''feast-script''), might be translated as "celebration publication" or "celebratory (piece of) writing". An alternative Latin term is (literally: "book of friends"). A comparable book presented posthumously is sometimes called a (, "memorial publication"), but this term is much rarer in English. A ''Festschrift'' compiled and published by electronic means on the internet is called a (pronounced either or ), a term coined by the editors of the late Boris Marshak's , ''Eran ud Ane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Road To Middle-Earth
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arden R
Arden may refer to: Places Australia * Arden Street, North Melbourne, Victoria * Arden railway station, Melbourne Canada * Arden, Ontario Denmark * Arden, Denmark, a town ** Arden Municipality, a former municipality, including the town of Arden United Kingdom *Arden, Warwickshire (formerly called the Forest of Arden) * Arden, Argyll and Bute * Arden, Glasgow United States * Arden, North Sacramento, California * Arden, Delaware * Arden, Indianapolis, a suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana * Arden on the Severn, Maryland * Arden (Andover, Massachusetts) * Arden Hills, Minnesota * Arden, Missouri * Arden, Nevada * Arden, New York * Arden Valley Road, located in Southfields, New York * Arden, North Carolina * Arden, Texas * Arden, Washington * Arden, Barbour County, West Virginia * Arden, Berkeley County, West Virginia * Arden (estate), a National Historic Landmark in New York People and fictional characters * Arden (name), including lists of people and fictional characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolkien Studies
The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have generated a body of research covering many aspects of his High fantasy, fantasy writings. These encompass ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion'', along with Tolkien's legendarium, his legendarium that remained unpublished until after his death, and languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien, his constructed languages, especially the Elvish languages of Middle-earth, Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin. Scholars from different disciplines have examined the linguistic and literary origins of Middle-earth, and have explored Themes of The Lord of the Rings, many aspects of his writings from Christianity in Middle-earth, Christianity to Women in The Lord of the Rings, feminism and Tolkien and race, race. Biographical Biographies of Tolkien have been written by Humphrey Carpenter, with his 1977 ''J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography'' and of Tolkien's wartime years by John Garth (author), John Garth with his 2003 ''Tolkien and the Great War: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westron
Westron (called ''Adûni'' in Westron, or ''Sôval Phârë'' meaning "Common Speech" in Westron), is the constructed language that was supposedly the Common Speech used in J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth in the Third Age, at the time of ''The Lord of the Rings''. It ostensibly developed from Adûnaic, the ancient language of Númenor. In practice in the novel, Westron is nearly always represented by modern English, in a process of pseudo-translation which also sees Rohirric represented by Old English. That process allowed Tolkien not to develop Westron or Rohirric in any detail. In the Appendices of the novel, Tolkien gives some examples of Westron words. Context From his schooldays, J. R. R. Tolkien was, in the words of his biographer John Garth, "effusive about philology"; his schoolfriend Rob Gilson called him "quite a great authority on etymology". Tolkien was a professional philologist, a scholar of comparative and historical linguistics. He was especiall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pseudotranslation In The Lord Of The Rings
A pseudotranslation is a text written as if it had been translated from a foreign language. J. R. R. Tolkien made use of pseudotranslation in ''The Lord of the Rings'' for two reasons: to help resolve the linguistic puzzle he had accidentally created by using real-world languages within his legendarium, and to lend realism by supporting a found manuscript conceit to frame his story. Effectively, he pretends to be an editor and translator who has received an ancient manuscript, the '' Red Book of Westmarch'', written in Westron, the Common Speech of Middle-earth, annotated and edited by many hands, which he decides to translate into English. The manuscript contains names and words from other languages, some of them related to Westron; he translates those into languages related to English, namely Old English and Old Norse. Tolkien wrote in the text of ''The Two Towers'' that Orthanc had two meanings, one in Sindarin and the other, "Cunning Mind", in Rohirric. The latter mea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Translating The Lord Of The Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' has been translated, with varying degrees of success, into dozens of languages from the original English. He was critical of some early versions, and made efforts to improve translation by providing a detailed "Guide to the Names in ''The Lord of the Rings''", alongside an appendix "On Translation" in the book itself. The complexity of the book, the nature of Tolkien's prose style with its archaisms, and the many names of characters and places combine to make translation into any language a challenge. A specific difficulty is the elaborate relationship between some of the real and invented languages used in the book. Westron, the common speech of Middle-earth, is "translated" as modern English; this stands in relation to Rohirric, an archaic language, which is represented by Old English, and the language of Dale, translated as Old Norse. The three real languages are related. The scholar of literature Thomas Honegger gives possible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Honegger
Thomas Honegger (born 1965) is a German scholar of literature, known especially for his studies of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Biography Thomas Honegger obtained an MA in English Studies, Medieval Germanic Languages, and Medieval German Literature from the University of Zurich. He then worked in that university's Department of English as an assistant. He took his PhD in 1996 on the subject of "Animals in Medieval English Literature". He worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Zurich. He had temporary postings at the universities of Kiel, Berlin, Zurich and Jena before becoming professor of Old English at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena in 2002. He contributed a chapter on Tolkien's academic writings to Wiley-Blackwell's '' A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien'', published in 2014. Books * 2004: ''Riddles, knights and cross-dressing saints : essays on medieval English lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
