Out of the Silent Planet, 172–4, 176
Perelandra, 173, 195
The Pilgrim’s Regress, 172, 176
The Problem of Pain, 193, 195
The Screwtape Letters, 195
Surprised by Joy, 230, 297
Till We Have Faces, 254
Lewis, Flora (née Hamilton), 140, 230, 254
Lewis, Joy (née Davidman, sometime Gresham), 245, 252–6, 262
Smoke on the Mountain, 252
Lewis, Sinclair, 147
Babbitt, 147
Lewis, Major Warren Hamilton (“Warnie”), 141, 145, 165, 166, 189, 203, 204, 211, 217, 220, 221, 222, 231, 240–41, 244–5, 253, 254, 255, 262
The Splendid Century, 222
Lindsay, David, 172
Voyage to Arcturus, 172
Literae Humaniores (Classics), 38, 50, 134
Lloyd George, David (Earl Lloyd-George), 71
Lloyds Bank, 20
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 60, 206
Hiawatha, 60, 206
Lönnrot, Elias, 60
Lovecraft, H.P., 99, 159
Lydney Park, 158–60
Lyme Regis, 30, 34, 165, 173
M
Mabinogion, The, 74
McCallum, R.B., 217
Macaulay, Thomas Babington (Lord Macaulay), 31, 38–9, 44, 120–21
Lays of Ancient Rome, 38–9, 44
MacDonald, George, 41, 272
McFarlane, Bruce, 143, 165
McGrath, Alister, 144, 254
Machen, Arthur, 159, 186
The Great God Pan, 159
Macmillan, Hugh, 184
Madlener, Josef, 48–9
Manning, Henry Edward Cardinal, 27
Manor Road, 219, 233
Masefield, John, 157
Mathew, Archbishop David, 217
Mathew, Fr Gervase, 217
Mawer, Allen, 127
Merton College: see Oxford
Merton Professorship of English Language and Literature, 63, 109, 112, 128, 206, 208–9, 260
Merton Professorship of English Literature, 109, 117, 152, 206, 215, 231, 245
Merton Street, 277
Microcosm, 118
Middle English: see languages, historical
Milford-on-Sea, 110, 277
Minden, Battle of, 93, 100
Miramar Hotel, 275, 278
Mitchison, Naomi, 247
Moore, Jane (‘Janie’), 140–41, 145, 230, 244, 252–3, 254, 255
Moore, Maureen (Lady Dunbar of Hempriggs), 145, 254
Moorman, F.W., 110, 117
More, St Thomas, 198, 229
Morgan, Fr Francis (JRRT’s guardian), 26–30, 33–8, 51, 55, 69, 74, 79, 87, 101, 165, 173, 292
Morris, William, 24, 41, 74, 92, 96–7, 99, 108, 113, 118, 143, 174, 177, 229
The Earthly Paradise, 92, 97
Icelandic Journals, 177
Müllenhoff, Karl, 169
Müller, Max, 56–7, 63, 67
Murray, Gilbert, 184
Murray, Fr Robert, 294
N
Naffarin: see languages, invented
Napier, Arthur, 63, 64–5, 66, 68, 73, 74, 79, 104, 109, 128, 198, 226
Nation, The, 247
National Union of Students, 239
Neame, Alan, 251
Neave, Edwin, 47
Neave, Jane (née Suffield; J.R.R.T.’s aunt), 20, 26, 47–9, 53, 77, 267
New College: see Oxford
New Line Cinema, 287
Newdigate Prize, 54, 92
Noad, Charles, 263, 267
Nobel Prize for Literature, 263
Noldorin: see languages, invented
Northern Venture, A, 118
Northmoor Road
no. 20: 130, 189, 194, 214, 219
no. 22: 130, 291
O
Old English: see languages, historical
Olrik, Axel, 199
Onions, C.T., 116, 128, 136, 143, 209
Orange Free State, 21–2
Oratory, Birmingham, 26, 28–30, 79, 87
Oratory School (Edgbaston, then Caversham, later Woodcote), 27, 165, 191, 192, 216, 222–3, 240
Oxford, 12–13, 50–54, 87, 98, 102–3, 104, 193, 275, 277–8 and passim
English Dictionary, 65, 69, 73, 104–5, 109, 127, 209, 226
English School, 61–9, 108–9, 133–7, 215, 222, 238–9, 245, 259
Latin Dictionary, 226
University: Blackfriars, 217; Corpus Christi, 73, 216; Exeter College, 38, 74, 79, 80, 81, 102, 113, 143, 190; Lady Margaret Hall, 226; Magdalen College, 112, 113, 139, 143, 152, 166, 198, 209, 216, 217, 231; Merton College, 68, 112, 143, 206, 209–10, 219, 220, 221–2, 260, 268, 277; New College, 218, 269, 277, 281; Oxford Society of Home-Students, 156; Pembroke College, 161, 206, 209, 217; St Anne’s College, 156; St Hilda’s College, 209, 238, 244; Trinity College, 160, 191–2; Wadham College, 128–9, 238
University Press, 67, 68, 116, 186, 187, 198, 210, 225, 226, 239–40
Oxford Blackfriars: see Oxford
Oxford English Monographs, 155–6
Oxford High School for Girls, 192
Oxford History of English Literature (O.H.E.L.), 155, 215, 244
Oxford Magazine, 149, 162, 206
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 79
P
Paris, 69–70
Parma Eldalamberon, 284
Passchendaele (Third Ypres), Battle of: see First World War
Paul VI, Pope, 293
Payton, R.S., 40, 76, 102
Payton, W.H., 40, 102
Pearce, Joseph, 294
Pearl, 119, 171, 200
Pembroke College: see Oxford
Perrott’s Folly, 30
philology
definition, 57–60, 111–12
at Oxford, 50, 53, 61–9, 108–9, 238–9, 242–4
Piers Plowman, 158
Pirie-Gordon, Harry, 143
Pitter, Ruth, 254
Pius XI, Pope, 229
Plummer, Charles, 128–9
Pope, Alexander, 206
Powell, J. Enoch, 25
Powicke, F.M., 209
Princip, Gavrilo, 75
Professorship of Medieval and Renaissance Literature (Cambridge), 244–5
Professorship of Poetry, 231
Q
Quain Professorship of English Language and Literature, 65, 125, 127
R
Raleigh, Sir Walter, 64–5, 79, 109, 112, 152
Ransome, Arthur, 176
Rateliff, John, 172, 213
Rawlinson, Richard, 62–3
Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, 62–3, 104, 109, 127–30, 133–4, 148, 206–7, 214, 218, 261
Reade, Fr Vincent, 29, 77, 89
Rednal, 26, 28, 30, 85
Regina Trench (Staufen Riegel/Stuff Trench), 94
Review of English Studies, 124
Reynolds, R.W., 33, 50, 86, 139
Rhys, Sir John, 74
Rice-Oxley, Leonard, 152
Ridley, M.R., 152
Rolfe, Frederick, 143
Roos, 100, 101
Royal Air Force, 191–3, 194, 208
Royal Artillery, 191
Royal Society of Literature, 251, 268
Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 76, 89
Royal Welch Fusiliers, 86
Russell, Bertrand (3rd Earl Russell), 176
Rutherford, Sir Ernest, 105
S
Sackville-West, Vita, 205
St Aloysius’ (church), 161, 215
St Andrew’s, University of, 47–8, 55, 184
St Anne’s College: see Oxford
St Gregory and St Augustine (church), 161
St Hilda’s College: see Oxford
St Philip’s (Birmingham Oratory grammar school), 26, 28–9
Salu, Mary, 209
Sandfield Road, 240, 274
Sarehole, 23, 26
Sassoon, Siegfried, 86
Saul Zaentz Company, 287
&n
bsp; Saxo Grammaticus, 199
Saxony, 19, 93–4
Sayer, George, 145, 189, 215, 225, 255–6, 284
Schleicher, August, 58
Schleicher’s Fable, 58–9, 199
Schwaben Redoubt, 93–4
Seafarer, The, 171
Second World War, 185–94 passim
Battle of Britain, 191–2
Battle of France, 189
Fall of Singapore, 194
sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, 194
Seven Years’ War, 93–4
Shaw, George Bernard, 63, 64
Shippey, T.A. (Tom), 53, 68, 111–12, 114, 125, 126, 153, 170, 196, 242–3, 299
Sidmouth, 191
Sime, Sidney, 44, 99
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 116, 119, 121, 122, 124, 128, 149, 260
Sir Orfeo, 201
Sisam, Celia, 198
Sisam, Kenneth, 13, 68–9, 73, 74, 79, 105, 107–8, 110, 113, 116, 121–2, 123, 124–5, 127–30, 134, 153–5, 198, 209–10, 225–6, 239, 248
Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose, 105, 116, 128, 201
The Structure of Beowulf, 226
Studies in the History of Old English Literature, 226
Skeat, Walter, 122
Slim, Field Marshal William Viscount, 25
Smith, A.H., 118
Smith, David Nichol, 64, 152, 155, 156, 209, 215
Smith, Geoffrey Bache, 40, 52, 73, 74, 80–86 passim, 89, 90–97 passim, 100, 102, 104
‘The Burial of Socrates’, 92
A Spring Harvest, 105
Smithers, G.V., 244–5
Snyder, William, 286
Society of the Holy Child Jesus, 175, 292
Society of Oxford Home-Students: see Oxford
Somme, Battle of the: see First World War
South Africa, 19, 20–23, 47, 89, 113, 192, 194, 203, 204–5, 208, 224
Stapeldon Society, 53, 69, 74
Staufen Riegel: see Regina Trench
Steele, Robert, 108
Stenton, Sir Frank, 128–9, 196, 209, 248
Anglo-Saxon England, 196, 209
Stevens, C.E., 217
Stewart, J.I.M., 248
A Staircase in Surrey, 248
Steyn, Mark, 26
Stonyhurst College, 68–70, 191, 214, 221
Strong, Sir Archibald, 126
Stuff Trench: see Regina Trench
Sudetenland, 185
Suffield, Beatrice (J.R.R.T.’s aunt), 29, 34–5
Suffield, (Emily) Jane: see Neave, Jane
Suffield, John (J.R.R.T.’s maternal grandfather), 20, 118, 277
Suffield, Mabel: see Tolkien, Mabel
Suffolk Regiment, 84, 100
Sunday Times, The, 214
Superb, hms, 84
Sweet, Henry, 63–4, 107, 206
Anglo-Saxon Primer, 33, 107
Anglo-Saxon Reader, 64, 67, 68
Switzerland, 47–8, 197
T
‘T.C.B.S.’ (‘Tea Club, Barrovian Society’), 39–40, 52, 80–81, 84, 87, 88, 92, 96, 102, 103, 104, 278
Ten Brink, Bernhard, 169
Tennyson, Alfred Lord, 206
Thiepval, 91, 92–3
Thompson, Francis, 41–4, 99
‘Daisy’, 43–4
‘The Mistress of Vision’, 44
‘Sister Songs’, 41–2, 43
‘Timbermill, Professor’, 248
Time and Tide, 247
Times, The, 268
Times Literary Supplement (T.L.S.), 117–18, 247
Tolkien, Arthur (J.R.R.T.’s father), 20–22, 162, 212–13
Tolkien, Christopher (J.R.R.T.’s third son), 99, 130, 173, 175, 177, 183, 192–3, 194, 201–8 passim, 214, 216, 222, 223, 240, 243, 262, 268, 269, 277, 281, 284
Heiðreks Saga, 223, 282
History of Middle Earth, 183, 246, 282
Tolkien, Edith Mary (née Bratt; J.R.R.T.’s wife), 35–6, 43, 54–6, 61, 70, 74, 75, 77, 81, 84, 87–9, 90, 95, 98–101, 104, 110–18 passim, 122–3, 130, 163–4, 190, 193–4, 214, 219, 221, 225, 226, 233, 234, 259–60, 262, 273–8 passim
Tolkien Enterprises, 287
Tolkien Estate, 287
Tolkien, Hilary (J.R.R.T.’s brother), 22, 26, 34–5, 47, 76, 79, 87, 88, 89, 104, 118
Tolkien, John (J.R.R.T.’s grandfather), 20
Tolkien, Fr John Francis (J.R.R.T.’s eldest son), 100, 111, 130, 146, 190–91, 214, 240, 268, 273, 277, 278
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel: academic reputation, 247–51; Air Raid Warden, 189, 194; ancestry, 19, 188; appointed CBE, 277; born, 22; breach with C.S. Lewis, 252–6; death of Edith, 277; elected Merton Professor, 208–9; elected Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, 127–30; engaged to be married, 54–6; falls in love, 35–7; health problems, 224–5; Jerusalem Bible, 251–2; last illness and death, 278; married, 87–8; moves to Bournemouth, 274–5; OED, 104–5; publishes Lord of the Rings, 246–7; retires, 259; returns to Oxford, 277; schooldays, 25, 30–34, 37–40; Second World War, 185–94; syllabus reform, 149–52, 238–9, 242–3, 245; teaches at Leeds University, 110–18; teaching at Oxford, 133–7; university, 50–54; war service, 88–95, 99–103;
shorter poems: ‘The Adventures of Tom Bombadil’, 162, 201; ‘As Two Fair Trees’, 81; ‘Bagme Bloma’, 115, 273; ‘Before Jerusalem Richard Makes an End of Speech’, 53–4; ‘The Bidding of the Minstrel’, 80; ‘The Cat and the Fiddle’, 118–19; ‘The City of the Gods’, 118; ‘A Closed Letter to … Charles Williams’, 188, 202; ‘Companions of the Rose’, 100; ‘Consolatrix Afflictorum’, 93; ‘Copernicus and Ptolemy’, 84; ‘Dark’, 81; ‘The Dragon’s Visit’, 162; ‘A Dream of Coming Home’, 118–19, 190; Éadig Béo Þu’, 115, 273; ‘Enigmata Saxonica Nuper Inventa Duo’, 118–19; ‘Errantry’, 162; ‘Ferrum et Sanguis: 1914’, 81; ‘The Flight of the Noldoli’, 119; ‘The Forest Walker’, 92; ‘G.B.S.’, 96–7; ‘Goblin Feet’, 85; ‘The Grimness of the Sea’, 53; ‘Habannan Beneath the Stars’, 89; ‘The Happy Mariners’, 85, 118; ‘Iumonna Gold Galdre Bewunden’ (‘The Hoard’), 119, 162, 267; ‘King Sheave’, 174–5; ‘Knocking at the Door’ (‘The Mewlips’), 162; ‘Kôr: In a City Lost and Dead’, 81; ‘Kortirion among the Trees’, 85, 86; ‘The Last Ship’, 268; ‘The Lay of Éarendel’, 119; ‘The Lonely Harebell’, 97; ‘The Lonely Isle’, 89, 98, 118; ‘Looney’ (‘The Sea-Bell’), 162, 268; ‘The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon’, 118–19; ‘A Memory of July in England’, 90; ‘The Mermaid’s Flute’, 80; ‘The Nameless Land’, 119, 162; ‘Narqelion’, 86; ‘The New Lemminkäinen’, 49; ‘Outside’, 81, 86; ‘Princess Ní’, 86, 118; ‘The Ruined Enchanter’, 110; ‘Sea-Song of an Elder Day’, 42, 86; ‘The Shores of Faery (Ielfalandes Strand)’, 84, 86; ‘A Song of Aryador’, 85, 86; ‘The Song of Eriol’, 96–7; ‘A Thatch of Poppies’, 92; ‘The Town of Dreams and the City of Present Sorrow’, 87, 96; ‘The Trumpets of Faerie’, 85, 86; ‘The Voyage of Earendel the Evening Star’, 77, 109; ‘The Wanderer’s Allegiance’, 98; ‘Wood-sunshine’, 43; ‘You and Me and the Cottage of Lost Play’, 86, 98–9
works:
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, 266, 285
Ælfwine of England, 138
Ainulindalë, 163, 178, 234–5, 237, 263
Akallabêth (The Downfall of Númenor), 237, 263–4
Aldarion and Erendis, 266
Ambarkanta, 163, 174, 178
Ancrene Wisse (edition), 207, 259, 260–61
‘Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad’, 148
Annals of Aman, 234, 237, 263
Annals of Beleriand, 163, 177–8, 234
Annals of Valinor, 163, 177–8, 234
Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, 263–4
The Battles of the Fords of Isen, 275
Beowulf (translation), 154–5, 284
Beowulf and the Critics, 168, 283–4
‘Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics’, 168–70, 283
The Book of Ishness, 74, 119
Book of Lost Tales, 96–9, 100, 105–6, 110, 113, 118–19, 138–9, 163, 174, 234, 260
‘Chaucer as Philologist’, 157
Cirion and Eorl, 275
‘Clarendon Chaucer’ (Selections from Chaucer’s Poetry and Prose), 116, 121–2, 123, 124–5, 128, 134, 153–8 passim, 198, 207, 226, 239–40
Concerning Galadriel and Celeborn, 264
The Converse of Manwë and Eru, 264
Dangweth Pengoloð, 235, 263–5
Description of the Island of Númenor, 266
A Descriptive Grammar of the Qenya Language, 121
‘The Devil’s Coach-Horses’, 124
The Disaster of the Gladden Fields, 275
Of Dwarves and Men, 275
‘English and Welsh’, 246, 283
‘Fairy Stories’, 184, 201
The Fall of Arthur, 23, 161–2, 175, 187, 284
The Fall of Gondolin, 96, 97, 105, 109, 234, 237, 260, 276, 282
The Fall of Númenor, 192
Farmer Giles of Ham, 146, 178, 190, 201, 218, 220, 222–3, 228, 232
The Father Christmas Letters, 146
Finn and Hengest, 170, 199, 283
Grey Annals, 234, 237, 263
The Hobbit, 12–13, 20, 146–8, 159–60, 175–85 passim, 190, 193, 195, 200–201, 202, 213, 214, 215, 219, 221, 227–8, 232, 235, 237, 267, 269, 274, 286, 288
‘The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth’, 170, 199, 241–2
Language and Human Nature, 206
Laws and Customs of the Eldar, 263–4
‘Lay of Aotrou and Itroun’, 211
Lay of the Children of Húrin, 119, 137, 139, 178
Lay of the Fall of Gondolin, 119
Lay of Leithian, 137–8, 139, 144, 161, 178, 179, 234
Leaf by Niggle, 184, 196–7, 201–2, 207, 269, 295, 298
Letters, 284–5
Lhammas, 177–8
The Line of Elros, 266
The Lord of the Rings, 12–13, 15, 91, 102, 159–60, 166, 179–80, 183–7 passim, 190, 192–6, 200–201, 203–6, 207, 212–28 passim, 231, 232–7, 239, 240, 245, 246–51, 259–60, 262, 266–78 passim, 282, 283, 286–8, 289, 294
The Lost Road, 22, 172–9 passim, 199, 211–14
A Middle English Vocabulary, 105, 116, 123, 250
Mr Bliss, 146, 178
The Monsters and the Critics, 282–3
‘Mythopoeia’, 144, 295
Narn i Chîn Húrin, 234, 237, 263, 282
Nauglafring, 105, 106
New Lay of Gudrún, 161, 199, 284
New Lay of the Völsungs, 161, 199, 284
The New Shadow, 251
‘Noldorin Dictionary’, 121
‘Noldorin Grammar’, 121
Notion Club Papers, 23, 212–14, 216, 287
The Old English Exodus, 283
On Fairy-Stories, 201–2, 208, 222, 276–7, 282, 284, 295, 296–7
‘The Oxford English School’, 149–50
Part of the Legend of Amroth and Nimrodel, 275
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