Post by fanuidhol on Jul 14, 2006 12:25:09 GMT -6
As a few of you know, I have been reading Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth by Marjorie Burns. Some of you may already know that at least some of the novels of William Morris influenced Tolkien's writing. Burns devotes a whole chapter to Morris and his Icelandic Journals, a travel log of two trips he made there. After a few paragraphs, I considered skipping this chapter. Thankfully, I didn't. Burns compared the "Journals" with The Hobbit and the similarities in setting, incidents and even in the characterization of Bilbo are striking, to say the least! (Just one example among many: A priest poked Morris in the belly and called him fat. Beorn did the same to Bilbo.)
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