13 Sep, 2018
2018-9-13 12:24:37 PM UTC
Andy Orchard, Tolkien's successor as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, gives the after dinner talk at The Tolkien Society's 2018 Annual Dinner in Hull.
14 Sep, 2018
2018-9-14 10:41:09 PM UTC
Trotter thank you for sharing this. I certainly learned a great deal and heard things I'm still too ignorant to grasp. The quote Orchard picked for the memorial I thought perfect. I had forgotten the very moving passage he read, left out of Tolkien's 1936 lecture.
The passages from Beowulf demonstrating the sense of loss, of losses, is clearly echoed, repeatedly so, in LR. In my professional opinion Tolkien's portrayal/use of loss is a prime reason the fairy-tale is so meaningful and leads many people to some engagement on an enduring, personal level. Like ours.
I would have wished to hear about the limerick.
Thanks again,
Bruce
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