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  Part of CS Lewis/JRR Tolkien manuscript found

  07.11.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | 1 Comment

  A professor at Texas State University–San Marcos believes he has discovered all that exists of a book that JRR Tolkien and close friend CS Lewis intended to write together. The book, to be called Language and Human Nature, was scheduled for publication in 1950. But it appears that the only work done on the manuscript was a few opening pages by Lewis…

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  Harvard prof to teach Tolkien course this summer

  06.02.09 | Kunochan | Permalink | Speak, friend and comment!

  Harvard University, America’s Best College if you believe US News & World Report, will host a Tolkien-based course this Summer. The class, entitled “Tolkien as Translator: Language, Culture & Society in Middle Earth,” will be taught by Anthropology Lecturer Dr. Marc Zender of the University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

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