The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver, E.S.C. Weiner, Jeremy Marshall

The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

Peter Gilliver, E.S.C. Weiner, Jeremy Marshall

234 pages paperback 2006

3 editions

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Tolkien's first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of the OED. He later said that he had "learned more in those two years than in any other equal part of his life." The Ring of Words reveals how his professio...

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