"Sixty Years of Tolkien": A Lecture by Tom Shippey

[@LiamsLyceum]

I’m not sure why it took me so long to listen to this but enlightening and straightforward and entertaining as ever

[@cfhostetter]

Thanks for this, Tom. An excellent summation of Tolkien's impetus, mode, and fundamental philosophical stance; and an excellent, for all that it is implicit, indictment of the sorts of self-interested, extrinsic "criticisms" that have been inflicted on Tolkien since the start (and are yet today).

[@UppsalaBooks]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment.

[@maclir9]

I never knew of his collaboration with Harrison, I'm fairly sure the copy of The Hammer and the Cross didn't feature a co-author, though it's been some years since I last read it.

[@pipwillis]

Thanks Tom. A very elegant way of connecting free will to providence, offering great insight into Tolkien's understanding of how the individual falls into God's plan.

[@cassandraseven3478]

That hit me hard, that they were all traumatized.

[@MorpheusOne]

You should have included the question & answer segment of this lecture in this video. It's very likely that this video would have been far more interesting, in far more engaging, in being far more thorough, if you had included it.

[@antonyreyn]

Thorkelin - first translator of Beowulf
T o kelin - Lord of rings
Tolkien - Nominative Determinism
Cheers from Mercia

[@Vingul]

Mercia
M r ia
Moria

[@Slechy_Lesh]

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