Simon J Cook
I think about ideas in England between c. 1850 and today. I began with a study of Victorian Moral Science out of which came Political Economy, then followed the trail of historical scholarship from Alfred Marshall to J.R.R. Tolkien. For years, now, I've been trying to wrap up a study of Tolkien and the Stones of Beowulf so I can get on to the real Tolkien gold - The Hobbit..
Address: A wooden house in a small moshav in a war-zone.
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But visit the Rounded Globe website to read this experiment for free; or pay some good money at Amazon. Your choice.
Here is the blurb.
In this essay the award winning intellectual historian, Simon J. Cook, explores Tolkien’s lifelong project of reconstructing the ancient traditions of the North – myths and legends once at the heart of English culture but forgotten after the Anglo-Saxon settlement of the British Isles. Cook situates The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings in relation to Edwardian scholarship on the prehistory of Northern Europe and the origin of the English nation. Taking us through three key stages of his creative writing, Cook shows how Tolkien crafted stories that fit – and illuminate – our fragmentary knowledge of ancient English traditions. By the end of his essay, Aragorn, Arwen, and Frodo appear in a new light – no longer just icons of modern fantasy, but also the original heroes of a lost English mythology.
Seven, for the halls of stone.