TY - JOUR
AU1 - Thomas, Paul Edmund
AB -  Book Reviews paradigms one has only to recall his reminiscence of a sitting in a wartime lecture next to a soldier who suddenly exclaimed, "Yes, I think I shall express the accusative case by a prefix!" Just consider the splendour of the words! . . . What a pondering of alternatives within one's choice before the final decision in favour of the daring and unusual prefix, so personal, so attractive; the final solution of some element in a design that had hitherto proved refractory. Here were no base considerations of the `practical', the easiest for the `modern mind', or for the million--only a question of taste, a satisfaction of a personal pleasure, a private sense of fitness. As he said his words the little man's smile was full of a great delight, as of a poet or painter seeing suddenly the solution of a hitherto clumsy passage ("A Secret Vice," MC 199). Language creation, for Tolkien, was an act of gorgeous, individualistic rebellion in an era of barbarous conformity. These papers afford a glimpse over his shoulder as he worried at the details in the still of the night, repeatedly tearing up his work but, no doubt, also 
TI - Smith of Wootton Major: Extended Edition (review)
JF - Tolkien Studies
DA - 2006-05-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/west-virginia-university-press/smith-of-wootton-major-extended-edition-review-vbFi7gKq0L
SP - 160
EP - 165
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -