tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post7089212091788957951..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: MY LATEST PUBLICATION: Clyde Kilby MemoirJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-36873647708822891612011-05-28T14:27:10.995-07:002011-05-28T14:27:10.995-07:00(Final comment!) Kilby's piece is a moving acc...(Final comment!) Kilby's piece is a moving account of Tolkien's feelings in his final years. I'm very glad that it has been published, and with your helpful notes (a note being the source of the Kaye-Smith reference that I mentioned just now).Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-46317195055368087572011-05-28T13:47:16.235-07:002011-05-28T13:47:16.235-07:00I should have specified that Kaye-Smith's nove...I should have specified that Kaye-Smith's novel is about the American, not English, Civil War.Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-59270408791948710432011-05-28T13:46:04.478-07:002011-05-28T13:46:04.478-07:00I'm reading your new article now with much enj...I'm reading your new article now with much enjoyment. It is interesting to see Tolkien recommending a novel of the Civil War, Sheila Kaye-Smith's The Challenge to Sirius (lovely scientifictional title; could that have been what first caught Tolkien's eye?), to Clyde Kilby.<br /><br />I wish we had a one-stop-shopping list of the books that Tolkien recommended -- perhaps one list relating to his scholarly interests and one for other matters. As compared to information about C. S. Lewis's reading, we have very little indeed on Tolkien's. When reading Zettersten's book on Tolkien a few weeks ago, I gleaned one title that I don't remember having seen before, The Lost Literature of Medieval England, by R. M. Wilson. (It had a significantly revised second edition and I don't think which edition Tolkien had in mind is clear.)Wurmbrandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17345523517796356674noreply@blogger.com