A previously unpublished, nearly complete translation by J.R.R. Tolkien has been discovered at Oxford. #oxforduniversity #Tolkien

I often wonder how many papers with Tolkien’s writings are still somewhere there unknown…

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Wonderful!

Tolkien Papers at Oxford! 🤗🎈

@JRRTolkien Citation⁉️ Per Gronk: It’s an early 13th-century Middle English homily, Sawles Warde (titled by Tolkien as Soul’s Ward, if you pause the video). Likely translated ‘55/‘56 in AB dialect; it’s a prose homily/religious allegory, ca. 1210… in ‘83 Alan Bliss sent it to Christopher.

Christmas comes early for @Nerdrotics

@JRRTolkien I continue to be amazed that things like this are “discovered” in the Bodleian Library archives…