Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference

 

By T A Shippey
Paperback £8.99 (2nd edition)
HarperCollins, London, 1992
337 pages including notes and index

Probably the nearest thing to a standard critical work on Tolkien's Middle-earth, Shippey's book traces the development of Tolkien's ideas through his profound involvement with languages and the mythologies that gave rise to them. The second edition includes a small amount of additional commentary based on works published since the original edition came out in 1982, but the main value of the text is in the material published in 1982, and minor errors in that text remain uncorrected. Some commentary on these (and much else) is given in Tom Shippey's address to The Tolkien Society, 1983, in Peter Roe Booklet No. 5, Digging Potatoes, Growing Trees Part 1.

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