Lewis Carroll's Influence on Tolkien - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Morquesse · 01-13-2005, 04:33 PM

Child, I also thought of the Snergs as a main influence for Tolkien's Hobbits. I managed to find a publisher who recently started puting Snergs in print. Here's the location: oldearthbooks.com. I'm getting a copy at the end of the month, so we'll need to start a thread on that.

lmp, your posts indicate to me that Tolkien liked Silvie and Bruno and not Alice. I read Humphrey Carpenter's biography and the book indicates that Tolkien liked Alice as a child (or somewhere I read). Are you saying that Tolkien didn't think of Alice as fantasy nor faerie-story, and simply that? Or that Tolkien really didn't like the book? Just trying to clearify.

~M

01-13-2005, 04:33 PM	#9
Morquesse Wight Join Date: May 2002 Location: Past the fields we know.... Posts: 202	Child, I also thought of the Snergs as a main influence for Tolkien's Hobbits. I managed to find a publisher who recently started puting Snergs in print. Here's the location: oldearthbooks.com. I'm getting a copy at the end of the month, so we'll need to start a thread on that. lmp, your posts indicate to me that Tolkien liked Silvie and Bruno and not Alice. I read Humphrey Carpenter's biography and the book indicates that Tolkien liked Alice as a child (or somewhere I read). Are you saying that Tolkien didn't think of Alice as fantasy nor faerie-story, and simply that? Or that Tolkien really didn't like the book? Just trying to clearify. ~M __________________ I'm not ashamed to let you know I want this light in me to show. I'm not ashamed to speak the name of Jesus Christ.~Newsboys