J. R. R. Tolkien
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| hobbitlike adj. | 1954 Letter 25 Apr. in H. Carpenter Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981) 180 Since Sam was close friends of the family of Cotton (another village-name), I was led astray into the Hobbit-like joke of spelling Gamwichy Gamgee, though I do not think that in actual Hobbit-dialect the joke really arose. |
| hobbitry n. | 1944 Letter 6 May in H. Carpenter Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1995) 78 Well, there you are: a hobbit amongst the Urukhai. Keep up your hobbitry in heart, and think that all stories feel like that when you are in them. |
| legendarium n. | ?1951 Letter in H. Carpenter Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981) 149 This legendarium [sc. the Silmarillion] ends with a vision of the end of the world, its breaking and remaking, and the recovery of the Silmarilli. |
| primary world n. | 1947 On Fairy-Stories in Essays Presented to Charles Williams 60 It seems fairly clear that Lang was using belief in its ordinary sense: belief that a thing exists or can happen in the real (primary) world. |
| secondary world n. | 1947 On Fairy-Stories in Essays Presented to Charles Williams 68 To make a Secondary World inside which the green sun will be credible, commanding Secondary Belief, will probably require labour and thought, and will certainly demand a special skill, an elvish craft. |
| sub-creation n. | 1947 On Fairy-Stories in Essays Presented to Charles Williams 51 This aspect of ‘mythology’—sub-creation, rather than either representation or symbolic interpretation of the beauties and terrors of the world—is, I think, too little considered. |
| sub-creator n. | 1947 On Fairy-Stories in Essays Presented to C. Williams 51 The story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. |