A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (9780008131395 / MAN-U29-02500008131392) - J.R.R. Tolkien - Other - Hardcover - HarperCollins Publishers - Dimensions: 228 x 149 x 23 mm - Edition number: 1 - ISBN: 9780008131395 | Secret Vice

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In the 1930s, Tolkien composed and delivered two lectures, in which he explored these two key elements of his subcreative methodology. The second of these, the seminal Andrew Lang Lecture for 19389, 'On FairyStories', which he delivered at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, is well known. This talk would be edited by Christopher Tolkien for inclusion as 'A Secret Vice' in The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays and serves as the principal exposition of Tolkien's art of inventing languages.

This new critical edition, which includes previously unpublished notes and drafts by Tolkien connected with the essay, including his 'Essay on Phonetic Symbolism', goes some way towards reopening the debate on the importance of linguistic invention in Tolkien's mythology and the role of imaginary languages in fantasy literature.

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