(urth) Silmarillion

[Lane Haygood]

When I was but a young lad in college, I took a course with Prof. Hoyt
on the linguistics of Middle Earth, including an extensive survey of
Prof. Tolkien's own writings on the subject, his speeches, and his
views on language.  The scholarly consensus among such people as H.
Fauskanger (who runs the Ardalambion website) is that Tolkien's
literary works served as a backdrop for him to experiment with the
changing field of philology and its metamorphosis into modern
linguistics.

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:33 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
> Tolkien wrote books.
>
> He expected to make money selling them.
>
> He did make money selling them.
>
> His major income did indeed come from his professorship.
>
> You speak quite confidently as to Dr Tolkien's motivations.
>
> I wonder how intimately you knew him.
>
> .
>
>
>> Tolkien made his living as a professor.  The "background" of the
>> Silmarillion was to give his world an impetus for his languages to
>> change, much as our own did, coupled with his desire to formulate a
>> modern mythology for Great Britain.  Ergo, Silmarillion and all of his
>> "notes" that have been posthumously edited and published by his son.
>>
>> LH
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:22 PM,  <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>>> The man wanted to get paid.
>>>
>>> This is not an hypothesis.
>>>
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes <danldo at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 2010/7/7 António Pedro Marques <entonio at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> >>> The Quenta Silmarillion is an unfinished book, but why is it
>>>>> deeply
>>>>> >>> flawed?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> Try reading "Of Beleriand and its Realms" without falling asleep.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Is that a matter of not 'leav[ing] out the parts that people skip'?
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a matter of not doing a good job of integrating one's infodumps.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Again, not a novel.  The infodumps were as much for the author's
>>>> working
>>>> out
>>>> of his creative impulse as anything else.  Personally, I'm fascinated
>>>> by
>>>> Tolkien's process, and while "Of Beleriand and its Realms" is a hard
>>>> slog,
>>>> I'm glad to have it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
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