From The Imaginative Conservative
By The Editors
(Bow, NH)—Prof. David K. Bloomington of
Bow College is working on a new book on the famed English author and
medievalist J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and a bunch of other fairy-tale books that no one cares about after those two.
“It’s high time for a new study of the great Englishman,” Prof. Bloomington says of his book titled, Neglected Genius: The Genius of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Genius.
“Do you know that his experiences in World War I shaped his worldview?
Or that he belonged to this group called the Inklings, who had an
influence on his writing? That he created entire new languages for
Middle-Earth? Or that he left unfinished at his death a rambling work
called The Silmarillion, which every Tolkien fan talks about
with reverence but which no one has actually read beyond chapter one?
There’s a Smaugian treasure trove… heh heh… to explore here, and we in
the Tolkien field have only scratched the surface really.”
When told that his book will be the
16-millionth-781-thousandth-243rd book published on Tolkien, Prof.
Bloomington seemed unfazed. “My hope is that my book will bring Tolkien
more into the public light, so that others besides us specialists will
know his name. Who knows, maybe someone one day will make a movie out of
one of his books… though I don’t know, for instance, if The Hobbit‘s simple tale could fill a whole two hours.”
The featured image is courtesy of Pixabay.
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