Tolkien and Wales: Language, Literature and Identity

If J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth has a home on our earth, that home is surely Wales. Tolkien loved Wales, and he drew extensively on both the country and its language in creating his fantasty world. Tolkien and Wales is the first book to offer a detailed examination the influence of Wales on Tolkien’s fiction and scholarly work, including some relatively neglected texts. Fans of Tolkien’s work will come away with a new appreciation of the traces of Welsh culture that can be found the…