A Heroic History of the Elves: Tolkien's "Lost" Mythology of England? (original) (raw)

Tolkien 50th Anniversary Seminar, Exeter College, Oxford, 2023

Abstract

A consideration of the more or less transparent influences of Old English dithematic personal names with the prefix Ælf- ('Elf') on Tolkien's developing mythology in the 1910s, The Book of Lost Tales. Argues that the mythic-heroic qualities of such dithematic names may have inspired the martial Elves of The Book of Lost Tales (and the much later Silmarillion).

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