Tolkien's views on "the things Celtic": a study of his unpublished manuscripts

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520306
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: HEMMI Yoko 慶應義塾大学, 文学部, 教授 (40245428)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: J.R.R. トールキン / 『指輪物語』 / English and Welsh

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With a hitherto unattempted aim to study Tolkien as a "Celticist," this project undertook an extensive research of Tolkien's unpublished manuscripts in the archives of Marquette University Library, US, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, UK. At Marquette, I was able to transcribe all the versions of the Appendix F, "On Languages," with a couple of interesting discoveries with which I was granted permission by Tolkien Estate to publish. At Bodleian, I examined all the papers of "English and Welsh" and successfully traced the development of Tolkien's concept of British-Welsh as the "native language," which is crucial to the understanding of Tolkien's views on "things Celtic," and thus important in assessing Tolkien as a Celticist.

Free Research Field

中世英文学、ケルト語文学