Holly Ordway’s engrossing volume Tolkien’s Modern Reading is significant in its own right, but it also marks the inaugural book released by Word on Fire Academic. Ordway’s work consists of examining both what the philology professor pored over through his work (and perused in his leisure) as well as the way in which the modern reader can better understand the person Tolkien was.
Tolkien’s literary interests and influences went far beyond dated works such as the Edda that would stoke the flames of his imagination.
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