The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver, Edmund Weiner, Jeremy Marshall

The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

Peter Gilliver, Edmund Weiner, Jeremy Marshall

234 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography adventurous informative slow-paced
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Tolkien's first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary. He later said that he had "learned more in those two years than in any other equal part of his life." The Ring of Words rev...

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