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.
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.
I may be the only American of by my generation neither to have read nor been interested in Tolkien’s works.