Tolkien's Honorary Membership in the Icelandic Literary Society
Last week -- September 1st, to be exact -- saw a very successful conference completed, " New Perspectives on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History ." Many of the Forgotten Ground Regained crew were there, including Paul Deane, who reviewed his recent researches into the Modern Revival, plus Joe Hoffman, a digital humanities guy who also studies Tolkien. As an example of his work, he just posted his conference paper, " The Hunt for Alliterative Melody " (it's very readable), plus a more general conference report . For yours truly, in honor of my book, Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival , which came out in paperback last week, I presented my new discovery: i.e, we've been reading one of Tolkien's alliterative poems wrongly for the last 70 years. Since my article's still out for review, mum's the word, but keep your eyes peeled. But before getting to Tolkien's honorary membership in the Icelandic Literary Societ...