By Ligandil
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Help needed to check some entries on "Tolkien's Library"

14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 5:31:58 PM UTC

Hello. I didn't know where to post this, so apologies if it's misplaced.

I'm looking for someone who has some extra time (and a good heart) to help in some personal research of mine.

I need to check 5 authors on Oronzo Cilli's Tolkien's Library (I haven't been able to purchase this one, but I'll do it in within 2 months when I place my next amazon uk order).

If an author exists, could this person send me a photo of the entry?

Thanks in advance! As a compensation, if we ever meet in some Tolkien event, I'll be happy to get this person some beers!

Thank you!

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Trotter

14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 5:34:01 PM UTC

I can check it for you, can you PM the authors to me?

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Ligandil

14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 5:47:26 PM UTC

Thanks! PM sent.

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Ligandil

14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 8:33:47 PM UTC

Thanks to Trotter for the help!

I have an additional question, for anyone who would like to help out:

Does anyone know any Old Norse/Icelandic grammars Tolkien might have used/be familiar with, especially as a student, or alternatively during his professor years?

Trotter checked for Guðbrandur Vigfússon and George Bayldon in Tolkien's Library, but there were no entries. Thanks in advance!

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Trotter

14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 8:36:34 PM UTC

Ligandil wrote:
Trotter checked for Guðbrandur Vigfússon and George Bayldon in Tolkien's Library, but there were no entries. Thanks in advance!

I could not find them may be more accurate

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Aelfwine

14 May, 2021 (edited)
2021-5-14 8:49:02 PM UTC

Tolkien would certainly have known and referred to Adolf Noreen's two-volume Altnordische Grammatik, a standard work during Tolkien's lifetime, vol. I of which, Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik is listed in Tolkien's Library, together with Holthausen’s Altisländisches Elementarbuch.

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Ligandil

14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 9:16:28 PM UTC

Aelfwine wrote:
Tolkien would certainly have known and referred to Adolf Noreen's two-volume Altnordische Grammatik, a standard work during Tolkien's lifetime, vol. I of which, Altisländische und altnorwegische Grammatik is listed in Tolkien's Library, together with Felber's Altisländisches Elementarbuch.

Woah, thanks so much, Aelfwine, just what I was looking for! (Btw, completely off-topic, but you're Carl H., right? I read that you work at NASA, that's incredible! I'm an Astrophysics Ph.D. student myself, in California).

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Aelfwine

14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 9:18:28 PM UTC

Yep, that's me!

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onthetrail
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14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 10:22:47 PM UTC

Aelfwine wrote:
Yep, that's me!

Carl, I am just being nosey here really but I am interested. How did you end up at NASA? Was it something you always wanted from an early age or did the opportunity came along organically? I only ask as being involved in such a specific way with Tolkien and having this other career going on is incredibly interesting.

Hey Urulókë, maybe you should interview Carl

he has a book coming out so I've heard.

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Aelfwine

14 May, 2021
2021-5-14 10:34:29 PM UTC

So, I don't want to derail the thread, but suffice it to say that while I developed an interest in Tolkien, linguistics, and Tolkienian linguistics long before I had any notion of working for NASA (and in fact linguistics preceded Tolkien), or even in becoming a professional computer programmer, I did enter university (1983) with a plan to seek a degree in Physics, which before I graduated became a degree in Computer Science. That, and being in the right place at the right time, is how I ended up working at NASA.

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