The Ring of Words

The Ring of Words

Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

by Edmund Weiner, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall

256 pages· 2009· ISBN 9780199568369
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Three senior editors at the Oxford English Dictionary examine Tolkien's career as a lexicographer who spent two years on the staff of the OED, analyze its influence on his creative use of language in his fictional works, and probe the origins and meaning of such Tolkienesque words as "hobbit," "Ent," and "mithril."

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