96 St Aldate's
Oxford OX1
UK
Edmund Weiner: They Grew out of Their Name
“Numerous words and names in Tolkien’s works seem to have a complex inner history in his own mind. In this talk, Edmund Weiner will take another look at the way Tolkien’s creative philological imagination worked. This talk aims to be an unhasty ramble around Ent country, looking at names and topics of language construction and language theory, with perhaps a quick glance at Humpty Dumpty…”
Edmund Weiner was co-editor of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and has become the dictionary’s Chief Philologist. It was his initial analysis of the structure of the dictionary text which enabled the Oxford English Dictionary to be first handled and searched by computer in 1987. He co-authored a book on Tolkien: The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary analysing the relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien and the OED. He also contributed a chapter on Tolkien’s invented languages to From Elvish to Klingon.
Free entry, refreshments will be served after the talk