James Joyce (2 February 1882 — 13 January 1941) was an Irish writer.
In the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, there are at least three references to Joyce and his works:
- A brief reference in a draft of the lecture "A Secret Vice".[1]
- A note on the back of a manuscript page of The Lord of the Rings, held at the collections of the Marquette University.[1]
- The line "Anna Livia Plurabelle" (from Joyce's Finnegans Wake) at the top of a linguistic manuscript.[2][3]
Works comparing the literature of Joyce and Tolkien include: "Yeats, Joyce and Tolkien, the Artist as Magician" in Mythlore 36 (1983), Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology (2005), and The Loss and the Silence: Aspects of Modernism in the Works of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & Charles Williams (2011).
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 John D. Rateliff, "The New Arrival: Parma Twenty (comment field)" 8 September 2012, Sacnoth's Scriptorium, accessed 15 September 2012
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Qenya Alphabet", in Parma Eldalamberon XX (edited by Arden R. Smith)
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: II. Reader's Guide, p. 817