Shaun F.D. Hughes schreibt zusammenfassend, das wir mit Tolkien & Modernity einen ganz wichtigen Punkt in der Tolkienforschung erhellen und so neue Türen zu seinem Verständnis öffnen: "In investigating Tolkien and the concerns of Modernism, these essays affirm that Tolkien is very much a canonical Modernist, one working right at the center of the movement and engaging issues as weighty as those tackled by Eliot and Joyce. At the same time, they confirm the “openness” of Tolkien’s work: The Lord of the Rings, for example, is not only very much a work of the time in which it was written, it also looks both back to nineteenth-century Medievalism while at the same time engaging with twenty-first-century Postmodern agendas. The research that makes us aware of this, like the volumes under review, serves to broaden and deepen our understanding of Tolkien’s contribution to our culture, ensuring that the attribution “Author of the Century” is not some sort of publicity stunt, but an accolade richly deserved" (Hughes in TSS 5, S. 255).
Mark T. Hooker empfiehlt Hither Shore uneingeschränkt für die "ernsthafte Tolkienforschung": "Hither Shore is recommended for serious students of Tolkien with a better-than-average reading knowledge of German. It is also recommended for research libraries with serious Tolkien collections. Students of Tolkien with no reading knowledge of German should encourage their libraries to get a subscription for access to the English articles" (Hooker in TSS 5, S. 229)
Schließlich war auch Markolf Hoffmann, der bekannte Autor der wirklich ungewöhnlichen und empfehlenswerten Fantasy-Tetralogie Das Zeitalter der Wandlung, so freundlich mein Buch Fantasy. Einführung. zu lesen und auf lorp.de als "Husarenstück" zu bewerten. Eine Bewertung, die mich mit Stolz und Freude erfüllt!
Danke für die Rosen ...
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