John Garth

I’m about to embark on a doctoral research degree about how world war and other modern conflicts shaped Tolkien’s masterpiece.

I’ll admit it’s a bit late to be reviewing the past year.

I’ve been extremely quiet online this year, but I have not been idle.

Goblin caves at the North Pole!

Part two, in which we wet our wonges Tolkien’s paper ‘Chaucer as a Philologist’ (1934) is an analysis of northern English dialect in the Reeve’s Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales.

Part One, in which the vicar entertains I’m in the middle of copy-editing an upcoming edition of Tolkien’s work on Chaucer, edited with commentary by John Bowers and Peter Steffenson, for Oxford University Press.

It’s not every day that you receive an award also given to the director-general of Syrian antiquities, the director of archaeology at Troy and the director of the Colosseum in Rome.

In a guest post, Allan Turner, Tolkien scholar and formerly Lecturer in English at the University of Jena, Germany, provides a musical insight into A Spring Harvest, the 1918 anthology of Geoffrey Bache Smith’s poetry co-edited by his friend J.R.R, Tolkie…

I’ve posted this on social media already but I’m going to put it here too because, well, I like it.

I’ve just returned from the first-ever conference focusing on Geoffrey Bache Smith, his poetry, and his influence on his great friend, Tolkien.