J. R.R. Tolkien

Let’s start with what I know.

I actually saw the Lord of the Ring movies in theaters. I don’t remember much about them. I recently binge watched all of the LoTR movies and it was all so brand new. The themes were interesting and dare I say had undertones of … Catholicism? And so my hyper fixation began. The idea of reading the books never crossed my mind but I checked volume one out of the library.

Tolkien

I was interested in him as a person mildly not too long ago due to Tolkien staring Nicholas Hoult and Lilly Collins. So what I gathered from one movie trailer (never got around to watching it) was that he was in The Great War (WWI) and these books had things he encountered woven into them.

What I did learn in the Note on the Text was he really cared about his work.

So there are different versions of his books from the beginning that have errors. He spent many years trying to correct his work, a good example of an error would be the word “elves” that was changed to “elf’s”.

I was also surprised by how much people really loved and cared for the books in the beginning. They would sent letter (some even wrote to him in elvish) asking for more information or just to express their feelings on his works.

The Note on the Text was written by Douglas A. Anderson who is an author and bookseller. His works focused on Tolkiens work mostly analyzing it (I’m gonna read some of his stuff) and he also runs a business focused on forgotten authors. That’s pretty cool in my opinion.

And that’s what I took for the Note in the Text. I did google a few times to better comprehend things here and there but I really liked it.

-Good Night