![]() The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930-1935 ( McFarland, 2003).England and Always: Tolkien's World of the Rings ( Eerdmans, 1981).A Tolkien Compass (editor) ( Open Court, 1975).Lobdell wrote some 30 non-fiction books, including: ![]() ![]() ![]() West's account of Tolkien's use of medieval-style interlacing as a narrative structure. He noted that some of the early predictions were wrong – for instance, Tolkien had not written much of The Lord of the Rings before the Second World War – but many others have been substantiated, such as Richard C. Shippey described the essays as written in the "Age of Innocence" before Tolkien studies became professionalised, and as such offering "freshness, candor, and a sense of historical depth" that cannot be repeated. at a time when "in the United Kingdom at least, professing an interest in Tolkien was almost certain death for any hopeful candidate seeking entrance to a department of English". Lobdell's 1975 edited collection, A Tolkien Compass, was one of the first books of Tolkien scholarship to be published. He wrote many books on aspects of American history, and on each of the three major Inklings, the Oxford literary society centred on C. Jared Lobdell was born to Charles and Jane Elizabeth (Hopkins) Lobdell in New York. ![]() He is best known for some thirty academic books on American history and the Inklings including J. Charles Jared Lobdell (29 November 1937 – 22 March 2019) was an American author and one of the first Tolkien scholars. ![]()
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