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2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Tolkien's views on "the things Celtic": a study of his unpublished manuscripts

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 24520306
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionKeio 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
KeywordsJ.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a hitherto unattempted aim to study Tolkien as a "Celticist," this project undertook an extensive research of Tolkien's unpublished manuscripts in the archives of Marquette University Library, US, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, UK.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

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Published: 2016-06-03  

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