The Tolkienotheca: Studies in Tolkiennymy; Or, Searching for the Origins of Elvo-Indo-European in Tolkien's Elvish Lexicon; With an Addendum to ... Sanskrit, and a Lexicon of Elvish Month Names - Softcover

Hooker, Mark T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1713014025 ISBN 13: 9781713014027

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

The present volume consists of three parts.

Part I is an Addendum to the research begun in Tolkien and Sanskrit. It explores:

• the place of Sanskrit in Tolkien’s life and academic career,
• the legend of the Tree of the Sun and the Moon,
• the apparent origin of Tolkien’s tree doodle Amalion,
• Manwë’s place in Indo-European myth,
• the likely origin of the Ainur in the Hindu Mānasaputra,
• the Indian parallels to the story of Éowyn,
• the semantic relationship between the names Frodo and Buddha,
• the Indo-European relatives of the name Morgoth, “the Diabolos” of Tolkien’s tale,
• the “Indian” communality of the names Melian, Lúthien, Nimloth, Elwing, and
• the parallels between the Silmaril and the Indian jewel Syamantaka.

Part II is an diverse collection of articles that begins with a discuss the Irishness of Middle-earth, investigating how:

• the linguistic landscape of Middle-earth is painted in Irish lexemes,
• the royal titles of the Dúnedain have an echo in the royal titles of Ireland,
• a mystical Irish island found its way into Middle-earth,
• Irish burial customs have parallels in Tolkien’s Legendarium.

It further examines:

• how the name Gaerys escaped into Middle-earth from a Breton legend,
• Tolkien’s early name for the Sea and its first-world linguistic relatives,
• the olfactory and theological associations of the name Sauron,
• the grammatical gender of spiders,
• the intriguing question of whether spiders bite or sting.

Part III is a lexicon of the names of the months of the Elvish solar year that explores how Tolkien built his month names on the scaffolding of the month names of the French Republican Calendar, and how the French and Elvish month names are related to month names in other old (pre-Latin) calendars.

Includes bibliographic references and index. B&W illustrations.

Also from this author:

• Tolkien Through Russian Eyes (Walking Tree Publishers, 2003), published simultaneously in Russian
• "Frodo's Batman," Tolkien Studies, No. 1 (2004)
• The Tolkienian Mathomium (Llyfrawr, 2006)
• The Hobbitonian Anthology (Llyfrawr, 2009)
• "Reading John Buchan in Search of Tolkien," Tolkien and the Study of His Sources, Jason Fisher (ed.). (McFarland, 2011)
• Tolkien and Welsh (Llyfrawr, 2012)
• The Tolkienaeum (Llyfrawr, 2014)
• Iter Tolkienensis (Llyfrawr, 2016)
• Tolkien and Sanskrit (Llyfrawr, 2016)
• The Tolkiennymicon (Llyfrawr, 2018)

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1713014025
• ISBN 13: 9781713014027
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352