Category: Announcement
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First impressions of The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, and a couple of alliterative poems
First impressions of The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien, and a couple of alliterative poems.
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New publications: alliterative poetry today
Tolkien believed that alliterative verse shouldn’t be limited to the medieval past — and a couple of recent publications are demonstrating that such poetry is still a form that interests writers today.
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Secondary Sources Page Now Online
Our Secondary Sources page is currently divided into several sections, including “Medieval Alliterative Poetry in Tolkien,” “Tolkien and Philology,” and “New Old English.” The team also plans to expand the page to include sources on Tolkien’s interaction with Middle English alliterative poetry.
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New book on Maldon, Homecoming, and more
Thanks to the Tolkien Guide, we have an announcement of a forthcoming book that will be important for the study of Tolkien’s alliterative verse: The Battle of Maldon together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth, edited by Peter Grybauskas and to be published by HarperCollins in March 2023. According to the…
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Woven Words
Welcome to our blog, “Woven Words,” part of the Tolkien and Alliterative Verse website. Our title is adapted from a line in J.R.R. Tolkien’s alliterative verse play “The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth” where one of the characters states, “The woven staves have yet worth in them.” “Staves” — meaning a half…
Tolkien and Alliterative Verse 