Dr Grace Khuri
@gracekhuri.bsky.social
B.A., M.Phil (Merton), D.Phil (Oriel), University of Oxford. Medieval Scholar. #Tolkien Scholar. Oxford Tolkien Network. Author of Oxford University's first ever doctoral thesis on Tolkien.
My research explores mythic modernity during #WorldWarI and in Tolkien's Book of Lost Tales (c. 1917-19) and later iterations of the #Silmarillion. Like this 1915 French WWI poster (Thor) and Tolkien's Morgoth wielding the hammer Grond which marks the land like the crater-filled #Somme battlefields.
'TOLKIEN AND THE SOMME' - for 110th anniversary of the #BattleoftheSomme the Commonwealth Graves Commission features blog post on #Tolkien and his experience on the Western Front. Mentions #BookofLostTales #FallofGondolin #WWI #WorldWarI #GreatWar #Somme #Silmarillion www.cwgc.org/our-work/blo...
Star (now star cluster it seems) #Earendel. In Tolkien's 1917 'Fall of Gondolin', a child Eärendel, fleeing the fallen elven city, is described by his father, Tuor: 'behold, his face shineth as a star in the waste'. #Tolkien #Silmarillion #Astronomy #FallofGondolin
On July 31st, 1917, one of Tolkien's old school friends from King Edward's, Lieut. T.K. 'Tea-Cake' Barnsley (Coldstream Guards), was killed at Ypres while consoling someone. Barnsley had been a member of the wider TCBS (Tea Club and Barrovian Society) #Tolkien #Ypres #WWI #WorldWarI #GreatWar
Next year will be a banner year -- the 50th anniversary of the #Silmarillion and the 90th anniversary of the #Hobbit -- all by that master myth maker #Tolkien. Watch this space for special content related to both. 🙂
Benjamin Harff's #Silmarillion title page next to folio from the 1200-year-old Irish Book of Kells. A majestic imitation! #Tolkien #Medieval #medievalmanuscripts
Absolutely astonishing hand-drawn edition of the #Silmarillion in the style of (different) medieval manuscripts by Benjamin Harff. Some pages look like the Book of Kells. #Tolkien #Medieval tolkienlibrary.com/press/902-be...
Interview with Benjamin Harff, upcoming Tolkien illustrator and creator of the Edel-Silmarillion
interview with Ben Harff the upcoming German Tolkien artist that combined calligraphy, art and passion for The Silmarillion
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What happens when some of a young Tolkien's early Elvish (Gnomish) words aren't really what they seem? Reflections on some of the linguistic seeds of Tolkien's poignant and masterful mythology... #Tolkien #Silmarillion #Philology www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_NH...
Lexical Palimpsests: Old English and Old Norse Loan Words in Tolkien's Gnomish Lexicon (1917)
YouTube video by Oxford Tolkien Network
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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the #Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien's grandson will deliver a lecture on his grandfather's mythology. #Tolkien tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk/event/michae...
Michael G. Tolkien on Eden, Fall, Exile and Beyond
tolkien50.web.ox.ac.uk
I was quoted in a recent article for The Observer about the correspondence and friendship between #Tolkien and Mrs. Eileen Elgar. Elgar was the recipient of a summary of Tolkien's unpublished mythology in 1964 that was auctioned in 2022. #LotR #Silmarillion observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The unlikely pen pal who shaped Tolkien’s later years
When deaf fan Eileen Elgar wrote to the author with notes for improvement, they began a remarkable friendship based on a shared interest in language, revealed in a set of letters now up for auction
observer.co.uk
G.B. Smith's wit, imagination, and growing maturity in the face of war are the subject of a recently-published edited collection. I wrote chapter 2, about Smith's participation in Oxford Union debates and his wartime consolations of myth and music. #Tolkien #BattleoftheSomme #WWI #WWIPoetry
Also for the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission commemorates Tolkien's poet friend (who also attended Oxford University), Geoffrey Bache Smith (d. 1916). #Tolkien #BattleoftheSomme #WWI www.cwgc.org/stories/stor...
Commonwealth War Graves Commission honors Tolkien's friend, Lieut. Robert Quilter Gilson, who died leading a charge on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 110 years ago this month (July 1, 1916). #Tolkien #BattleoftheSomme #RobertQuilterGilson www.cwgc.org/stories/stor...
This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme. Beaumont-Hamel, where a young signalling officer, J.R.R. Tolkien, was stationed, is now a site of profound peace. All quiet on the Western Front. #Tolkien #BattleoftheSomme #WWI
