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A Secret Vice - Tolkien on Invented Languages (Paperback)
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A Secret Vice - Tolkien on Invented Languages (Paperback)
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Loot Price R230
Discovery Miles 2 300
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First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which
reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth
and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones. J.R.R.
Tolkien’s linguistic invention was a fundamental part of his
artistic output, to the extent that later on in life he attributed
the existence of his mythology to the desire to give his languages
a home and peoples to speak them. As Tolkien puts it in ‘A Secret
Vice’, ‘the making of language and mythology are related
functions’. In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two
lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his
sub-creative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew
Lang Lecture for 1938–9, ‘On Fairy-Stories’, which he
delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well
known. But many years before, in 1931, Tolkien gave a talk to a
literary society entitled ‘A Hobby for the Home’, where he
unveiled for the first time to a listening public the art that he
had both himself encountered and been involved with since his
earliest childhood: ‘the construction of imaginary languages in
full or outline for amusement’. This talk would be edited by
Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as ‘A Secret Vice’ in The
Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the
principal exposition of Tolkien’s art of inventing languages.
This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished
notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his
‘Essay on Phonetic Symbolism’, goes some way towards re-opening
the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien’s
mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy
literature.
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