...de la Western Mail:
A major new work describes how the Welsh language fired the imagination behind The Lord of the Rings saga.
Dimitra Fimi of Cardiff University has studied how author JRR Tolkien drew on Welsh as he crafted the language of elves. His lifelong interest in Welsh began in childhood when he saw Welsh words on coal trucks arriving from Wales.
Dr Fimi said: “It was fascinating for him. It was something out of the ancient pasts of Britain from the west.”
As a writer he cherished the ancient history of Britain. In the Welsh language – and in his heavily annotated copies of The Mabinogion – he found inspiration to create his own mythology...
A major new work describes how the Welsh language fired the imagination behind The Lord of the Rings saga.
Dimitra Fimi of Cardiff University has studied how author JRR Tolkien drew on Welsh as he crafted the language of elves. His lifelong interest in Welsh began in childhood when he saw Welsh words on coal trucks arriving from Wales.
Dr Fimi said: “It was fascinating for him. It was something out of the ancient pasts of Britain from the west.”
As a writer he cherished the ancient history of Britain. In the Welsh language – and in his heavily annotated copies of The Mabinogion – he found inspiration to create his own mythology...
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