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Wetwang revisited
Part two, in which we wet our wonges Tolkien’s paper ‘Chaucer as a Philologist’ (1934) is an analysis of northern English dialect in the Reeve’s Tale, one of the Canterbury Tales. Tolkien argues that Geoffrey Chaucer displays a philological interest … Continue reading
Wetwang revisited
Part One, in which the vicar entertains I’m in the middle of copy-editing an upcoming edition of Tolkien’s work on Chaucer, edited with commentary by John Bowers and Peter Steffenson, for Oxford University Press. Tolkien on Chaucer (Opens in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaucer, J.R.R. Tolkien, Middle-earth, Philology, Place-names, Tolkien research, Tolkien's writing, Wetwang, Yorkshire
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