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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
The Ring of Words details the relationship between JRR Tolkien's creative use of the English language in his fictional works and his professional work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Tolkien's earliest employment was as an assistant on the staff of the OED, and he later said that he had "learned more in those two years than in any other equal period of [his] life". Here three authors, themselves senior editors of the OED, engage directly with Tolkien's language and his fictional world. The Ring of Words offers a new and unexplored angle on the creative world of one of our most famous and well-loved writers. Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner.
EAN 9780199568369
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