Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Higgins Sørina
Title : The Inklings and King Arthur
Year : 2017

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Introduction - Present and Past: The Inklings and King Arthur. Sørina Higgins. Inspiration for and Purpose of this Volume. The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien was published in May of 2013. As I read it, three truths quickly became evident. The first was that Tolkien’s only Arthurian work is an important text worthy of rigorous study. It is a poem whose elements of craft - alliterative meter, diction, imagery, balance of the lines, and so forth - show some level of sophistication. It is a significant document in the history of Tolkien’s legendarium, revealing ideas that he entertained and then later discarded about how to integrate the story of King Arthur into his own evolving mythology. John Garth wrote in his review of The Fall of Arthur that “any addition to the Arthurian tradition by a major author is welcome; this one is also exciting because of what it adds to our picture of a great modern imagination” (Garth, “The Road”).1 Indeed, Tolkien’s addition to the Arthurian tradition is not only one more document that provides evidence of his writing methods, ideas, and creative evolution - it is also exciting because of what it adds to our knowledge of twentieth-century British Arthuriana. ...