A translator is not free: J. R. R. Tolkien’s Guidelines for Translation and Their Application in SirOrfeoCurtis WeyantWhile bemoaning his struggles with translating the Middle English poem “Pearl,” Tolkien declared to his aunt, Jane Neave,

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The Bitter Watches of the Night: From Anne Elliot to Éowyn of Rohan—Crossing Frontiers fromthe Home front to the BattlefrontJennifer EwingJ. R. R. Tolkien is often accused of either not having enough female characters, or that those presen

Mythmoot V: 04 - The composite authorship of Andreas

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The composite authorship of AndreasDavid MaddockThe Old English poem “Andreas” has long been a source of controversy in the Anglo-Saxon scholarly community. Although it bears no runic signature, scholars have noted significant stylistic s

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The Postmodern Kaleidoscope of London Below in Neil Gaiman's NeverwhereChris YokelIn Neil Gaiman’s first novel Neverwhere, an ordinary Londoner named Richard Mayhew is ushered into the fantastical underworld of London Below when he helps

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Jul 12th, 2018 27m 56s

Tolkien’s Crossing of Revisionary BoundariesChris Gavaler and Nathaniel GoldbergSome novelists revise their stories by restarting them. Others revise by revealing new things about them. Still others revise simply by continuing them. All