By Douglas A. Anderson
From the Editor's advent: this is often the 5th factor of Tolkien reviews, a refereed magazine devoted to the scholarly research of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien experiences is the 1st educational magazine exclusively dedicated to Tolkien. As editors, our objective is to put up very good scholarship on Tolkien in addition to to assemble beneficial study details, stories, notes, files and bibliographical fabric. during this factor we're happy to re-publish goods by means of Tolkien: "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale", a paper initially learn on the sixteen may perhaps 1931 assembly in Oxford of the Philological Society and accordingly released within the Transactions of the Philological Society for 1934; and the textual content of the infrequent pamphlet model of The Reeve's story ready by means of Tolkien for the Oxford "Summer Diversions" of 1939. For the previous, Christopher Tolkien has kindly made to be had to us the marginal notes and corrections written through his father into his personal copies of the unique booklet.
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The present essay, however, concentrates on his most sustained prosimetric performance, The Lord of the Rings. 9 Verse and Prose in the Icelandic Sagas Since Icelandic sagas and Morris’s saga-inspired romances provided models for Tolkien’s use of prosimetrum, critical concepts employed in analysing the use of verse in sagas offer a framework for understanding the relationships between verse and prose in Tolkien’s fiction. In what follows I shall first consider the distinction between authenticating and situational verses and will then explore some of the aesthetic effects produced by the mix of verse and prose.
He concedes that the song is “fair enough,” but to his Entish poetic sensibilities it remains, regrettably, characteristically Elvish: “lighthearted, quickworded, and soon over”. The song was “never an Entish song,” either in language, style, or outlook; it is not tinted by a pro-Ent bias. ” (TT, III, iv, 8081). In this remark, we can hear both of Treebeard’s primary criticisms of the song: the sad underdevelopment of the Entish position, and the song’s lamentable brevity. The genuine pro-Ent bias is apparent in Treebeard’s earlier prose narrative of the separation of the Ents and Entwives.