Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity

by Carl Phelpstead

Book Overview

Tolkien once wrote: 'I love Wales - and especially the Welsh language'. This book explores how that love influenced Tolkien's ideas about language, many aspects of his creative writing, and his sense of an English identity. It describes more fully than before the extent and depth of Tolkien's debt to Welsh language and literature, and argues that Tolkien's love of Wales and Welsh is inseparable from his love of, and sense of belonging to, England...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070832391X
• ISBN13: 9780708323915
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"