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and then I wrote
Dec. 31st, 2005 03:56 pmLooking over writing accomplishments of 2005 and comparing them with 2004 ...
Of the four major articles I wrote in 2004, only one has been published - my full-scale critique of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films (which ended with the words "Better luck with King Kong") came out right at the start of '05 with the previous year's date on it. Two others - papers on Gaiman's Sandman and on Tolkien's revisions in The Lord of the Rings - are in anthologies supposed to appear in the next few months; and my magnum opus, the historical and bibliographical appendices to Dr. Academic's book on the Inklings, should be in press in the fall.
Moving to 2005, something I wrote at the start of the year, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2001-2002," has appeared already, in volume 2 of the journal Tolkien Studies, and I'm at work on its successor. A paper I gave at the Birmingham Tolkien conference on the proposition that "Hobbit Names Aren't From Kentucky" is supposed to be in its proceedings some time, but I've heard nothing about that. A little memoir on "My Short, Happy Life as an Oxford Scholar" is in the issue of F770 that its editor tells me is in layout right now.
The compilers of a massive Tolkien Encyclopedia have in hand 7,000 words of mine in the form of 13 articles I wrote at intervals over the year as I was asked to do so. They run the gamut. Some articles on minor Inklings I drafted on receipt of the request before replying to it. A short piece tracing the concept of Kôr, the Elvish "city on a hill," required some sweating of blood to ensure the facts were all correct. And why they asked me to write on mercy in Tolkien's works I have no idea, but I did. The Encyclopedia is supposed to be out in the fall.
And SFCV published eight of my concert reviews, three orchestral and five chamber music.
This year I worked on three conventions (two of them fannish), went to England once, helped my mother move once, and attended two religious ceremonies of significance to people dear to me.
Of the four major articles I wrote in 2004, only one has been published - my full-scale critique of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films (which ended with the words "Better luck with King Kong") came out right at the start of '05 with the previous year's date on it. Two others - papers on Gaiman's Sandman and on Tolkien's revisions in The Lord of the Rings - are in anthologies supposed to appear in the next few months; and my magnum opus, the historical and bibliographical appendices to Dr. Academic's book on the Inklings, should be in press in the fall.
Moving to 2005, something I wrote at the start of the year, "The Year's Work in Tolkien Studies 2001-2002," has appeared already, in volume 2 of the journal Tolkien Studies, and I'm at work on its successor. A paper I gave at the Birmingham Tolkien conference on the proposition that "Hobbit Names Aren't From Kentucky" is supposed to be in its proceedings some time, but I've heard nothing about that. A little memoir on "My Short, Happy Life as an Oxford Scholar" is in the issue of F770 that its editor tells me is in layout right now.
The compilers of a massive Tolkien Encyclopedia have in hand 7,000 words of mine in the form of 13 articles I wrote at intervals over the year as I was asked to do so. They run the gamut. Some articles on minor Inklings I drafted on receipt of the request before replying to it. A short piece tracing the concept of Kôr, the Elvish "city on a hill," required some sweating of blood to ensure the facts were all correct. And why they asked me to write on mercy in Tolkien's works I have no idea, but I did. The Encyclopedia is supposed to be out in the fall.
And SFCV published eight of my concert reviews, three orchestral and five chamber music.
This year I worked on three conventions (two of them fannish), went to England once, helped my mother move once, and attended two religious ceremonies of significance to people dear to me.
