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Back To The Beginning: Rudyard Kipling's Story Of How Beings Learned To Write, D. Marie Nelson
Back To The Beginning: Rudyard Kipling's Story Of How Beings Learned To Write, D. Marie Nelson
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Focuses on ways that Kipling used his abilities as writer, artist, and father to tell the story of how writing began, touching on linguistic and childhood development theories.
Writing And Allied Technologies In Middle-Earth, Lester E. Simons
Writing And Allied Technologies In Middle-Earth, Lester E. Simons
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
This paper discusses the possible (and probable) methods by which the inhabitants of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age kept permanent records. A number of concepts are introduced and defined: substrate, medium, implement, glyphs and last, but not least, scribe! Suggestions regarding the possibility of the existence, late in the Third Age, of printing will be presented.