Now I haven't been on this thread ina while and I was going to recommend the collection of Tom Shippey essays only to find Esty has been more on the ball
Still, you guys can have the Amazon link if you likes:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roots-Branch...3715062&sr=1-1
I bought it for davem back in June but we have such a huge stack of reading to do it has not been read yet - however a fellow TS member on me F List (a blogging thing) was the first person I saw recommend it and he reckons it's good, so if Esty does too...
Esty, I thought you were at the Shippey talk on proverbs??? Was that when you had to go and rehearse? Is the Tolkien & Modernity one worth having as I've got a growing interest in this idea.
Anyway, another new one that I can recommend (and davem bought this one for me
), especially to all my fellow plantswomen is
The Plants of Middle-earth: Botany and Sub-creation by Dinah Hazell.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plants-Middl...3715062&sr=1-1. Not only is this interesting but it's rather nice looking too, and all us gardeners like to look at nice pictures of plants!