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Ep. 218 - Tolkien as Philologist and Oxfordian Catholic w/Dr. Yannick Imbert

Parker's Pensées

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Tolkien's Definition of Philology

Tolkien's definition of philology, when you connect his formal training in philology to language. Tolkien was also contesting the view of some contemporary philology that were completely dissociating word and meaning. But more than that, and the fascinating thing about Tolkien is in a word, in a language, you see the development of a culture. Mary says or Tolkien Panchad that for Mary, the language of the Royal Herum was like the country itself,. full of rolling hills and streams.

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