Gergely Nagy called the book "a significant early collection". Janet Brennan Croft has written that West's essay "has proven to have particularly long-lasting impact". West's account of Tolkien's use of medieval-style interlacing as a narrative structure. For instance, Tolkien had not written much of The Lord of the Rings before the Second World War but many other predictions have been substantiated, such as Richard C.
He noted that some of the early predictions, made before The Silmarillion appeared in 1977 or The History of The Lord of the Rings in 1988–1992, were wrong. Shippey described the essays as written in the "Age of Innocence" before Tolkien studies became professionalised, and as such offering "freshness, candor, and a sense of historical depth" that cannot be repeated. Shippey called this "immensely valuable" and "deplored" the fact that the Tolkien Estate had demanded it be omitted from later editions. The first edition included Tolkien's " Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings" Tom Shippey commented that A Tolkien Compass appeared "at a time when, in the United Kingdom at least, professing an interest in Tolkien was almost certain death for any hopeful candidate seeking entrance to a department of English". The book has been translated into French, Swedish, and Turkish. They brought out a second edition in 2003, adding a scholarly foreword by Tom Shippey. He explains how to translate both personal names like "Treebeard" (by sense) and placenames like "Bag End" (again, by sense), individually listed and explained, and asks that all other names be left untranslated.Ī Tolkien Compass was published in paperback by Open Court in 1975. " Guide to the names in The Lord of the Rings". "Aspects of the paradisiacal in Tolkien's work". "Hell and the city: Tolkien and the traditions of Western literature". "' The Scouring of the Shire': Tolkien's view of fascism". " Narrative pattern in The Fellowship of the Ring".
"The Interlace Structure of The Lord of the Rings". "Everyclod and Everyhero: the image of man in Tolkien". "The Fairy-tale Morality of The Lord of the Rings". "The Psychological Journey of Bilbo Baggins". " Gollum's character transformation in The Hobbit". The first and second editions contain the following essays: The literary establishment was largely hostile to the book, attacking it in numerous reviews. It has remained so ever since, judged by both sales and reader surveys. The publication of the Ace Books and Ballantine paperbacks in the United States helped it to become immensely popular with a new generation in the 1960s. The Lord of the Rings was published in 1954–55 it was awarded the International Fantasy Award in 1957. Tolkien (1892–1973) was an English Roman Catholic writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
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