j.r.r. tolkien

Who Was "Mr Rang" in Tolkien's Letters?

Douglas A. Anderson

In The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), there is about eight pages worth of text comprising "Drafts for a letter to 'Mr Rang'" (Letter no. 297, pp. 379-387). I never knew there was any mystery about the identity of Mr. Rang until my friend Jessica Yates just sent me a draft of her short piece on...

Fairy-tale Versions of Beowulf

Douglas A. Anderson

In Tolkien On Fairy-Stories (2008), Verlyn Flieger and I noted that in Tolkien's research notes for his famous lecture/essay, Tolkien queried himself twice about whether on not Andrew Lang had included a retold Beowulf in any of his Fairy Books--the first time briefly, but in the second instance...

Tolkien and A.E. Coppard

Douglas A. Anderson