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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary.(Book review)
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The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary
Peter Gilver, Jeremy Marshall, and Edmund Weiner
Oxford University Press
0198610696 $25.00
The Ring of Words is one of the most captivating works I, Phil Kaveny, have come upon in the last decade dealing with J.R.R Tolkien or any aspect of his work. I was quite surprised at the way this handsome; somewhat petite in physical appearance, and well illustrated book grabbed my attention. It is a book that asks to be read. But this only refers to the physical appearance of The Ring of ...
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