[lit-ideas] Tolkeniana
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 15:59:12 -0500 (EST)
In a message dated 1/17/2014 3:15:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx quotes in "Two anecdotes on Knowing", from
Carpenter's
biography of Tolkien:
"his urgent consideration as a revised edition of the book is about to go
to press. He explains it all in great detail, talking about his book not
as a work of fiction but as a chronicle of actual events; he seems to see
himself not as an author who has made a slight error that must now be
corrected or explained away, but as a historian who must cast light on an
obscurity in a historical document."
Delightful.
Mind, there may be a cross-reference Grice/Tolkien. Grice had two favourite
pubs in Oxford: the Flag & Lamb and the Bird and Baby, which Tolkien
frequented.
Cheers,
Speranza
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