A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages
- Submitting institution
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University of Glasgow
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-09464
- Type
- R - Scholarly edition
- DOI
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- Title of edition
- First ever critical study of Tolkien’s little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin’s Game of Thrones.
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- ISBN
- 9780008131395
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- The submitting author and co-editor played an equal share in editing this volume of Tolkien's essays on language. Submitting author was responsible for: a) transcribing the two essays, drafts, and notes from Tolkien's manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford; b) co-writing the introduction which contextualises Tolkien's material, offers new evidence for dating, etc.; c) co-writing the explanatory notes; d) co-writing the coda on the legacy of Tolkien's invented languages; e) compiling the appendix.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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