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Tom Shippey's Influence On Joe

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, better known as J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of the incredibly successful and iconic The Lord of the Rings trilogy was a very smart and curious man. However, he was also a pretentious and rude man. The letters further enhanced and supplemented the impression of “the man he was” that Humphrey Carpenter’s and Tom Shippey’s biographies expressed. J. R. R. Tolkien was a man who loved languages. He studied many languages including but not limited to Greek, Welsh, French, Latin, and Finnish. He especially liked the Welsh language. He also created many new languages based on the existing languages he studied. Tom Shippey described him as a philologist. Shippey defines philology as “the study of historical forms of a language
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