"Apartheid" in Tolkien: Chaucer and "The Lord of the Rings," Books 1-3 (1925-1943)."

Author / Editor
Chance, Jane.

Title
"Apartheid" in Tolkien: Chaucer and "The Lord of the Rings," Books 1-3 (1925-1943)."

Published
Jane Chance. Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature" (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), pp. 133-76.

Description
Considers the roles of apartheid and linguistic queerness in the class-based characterizations of various hobbits in Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," suggesting that Tolkien's scholarly study of Chaucer's literary dialects and his glossary for the never-published "Clarendon Chaucer" reflect similar concerns with race- and class-based linguistic features.

Alternative Title
Tolkien, Self and Other: "This Queer Creature"

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion