NASA Computer Scientist of Elvish Linguistic Fellowship will lecture; William Fliss is Archivist for the Special Collections and University Archives at Marquette University,
I am glad that Marquette is celebrating the Tolkien writings. They had such an impact on several generations of readers that they deserve to be remembered. I am not sure that recent generations are nearly so interested, but they certainly are an important part of our cultural history.
It should be said the way his manuscript was screwed around with to suit someone's arcane version of how it should be put together is a 'travesty' of modern literature. JRR would flip his wig if he knew.
The first version I read was published in the '60s, the latest just a few years ago. The result? The 'modern' version reads more like the thin soup Readers Digest specialized in serving.
I'm further reminded how I was childishly counseled as an author and speaker to write and speak for a grade six level of comprehension. I refused.
"You'll not sell many books that way."
"Oh," said I, "and I thought this was about telling stories, not keeping people dumb."
I am glad that Marquette is celebrating the Tolkien writings. They had such an impact on several generations of readers that they deserve to be remembered. I am not sure that recent generations are nearly so interested, but they certainly are an important part of our cultural history.
The video of the curator includes him saying that people all over the world make a pilgrimage to the collection--especially from the Netherlands.
Does the curator know why the collection is so popular in the Netherlands?
He said there were many groups devoted to Tolkien studies.
It should be said the way his manuscript was screwed around with to suit someone's arcane version of how it should be put together is a 'travesty' of modern literature. JRR would flip his wig if he knew.
I think about this, too.
The first version I read was published in the '60s, the latest just a few years ago. The result? The 'modern' version reads more like the thin soup Readers Digest specialized in serving.
I'm further reminded how I was childishly counseled as an author and speaker to write and speak for a grade six level of comprehension. I refused.
"You'll not sell many books that way."
"Oh," said I, "and I thought this was about telling stories, not keeping people dumb."
I may be the only American of by my generation neither to have read nor been interested in Tolkien’s works.
I studied at Marquette and Marquette libraries have a focus on Catholic authors. I think it so arcane that the orinigal ms. are in Milwaukee.