The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: Volume 1: Chronology. Christina Scull

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      28 January 1936 Day of mourning for the funeral of George V. Lectures are cancelled. The Vice-Chancellor, Proctors, and graduates, in academic dress, meet in the Divinity School by 11.35 a.m. and process to a Memorial Service at noon in the Church of St Mary the Virgin.

      1 February 1936 Warren Lewis notes in his diary that Tolkien has torn a ligament in his leg playing squash and will be in bed for ten weeks. – C.S. Lewis visits Tolkien after tea.

      7 February 1936 The Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, Liège, authorizes publication of Simonne d’Ardenne’s thesis on Seinte Iuliene. Oxford University Press will print one thousand copies by early March. Librairie E. Droz of Paris will publish it under d’Ardenne’s name only, to satisfy requirements of her degree at Liège; but for this, the book would appear as a joint work by d’Ardenne and Tolkien. Simonne d’Ardenne herself privately refers to it as a joint effort, and some of Tolkien’s colleagues will recognize his contribution. The Seinte Iuliene probably contains more of his views on early Middle English than anything he will ever publish under his own name.

      19 February 1936 C.H. Firth dies.

      26 February 1936 Mabel Day sends Tolkien a list of possible amendments for A Middle English Vocabulary. She thinks that Robin Flower has seen Tolkien in Oxford to discuss the specimen pages for Ancrene Wisse.

      Early March 1936 Tolkien reads The Place of the Lion by *Charles Williams, which C.S. Lewis has recommended.

      1 March 1936 By this date Tolkien must have submitted his application for a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, which he will be granted from October 1936 for two years.

      7 March 1936 Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.

      9 March 1936 Simonne d’Ardenne writes to Tolkien, asking how he is recovering from his leg injury, and referring to his surgeon. She will tell him the date of her viva at Liège when she knows it. A copy of Seinte Iuliene has gone to Tolkien. She regrets that ‘our profit’ will be smaller than they had thought, because of the percentage demanded by Droz (Tolkien Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford).

      14 March 1936 Hilary Full Term ends.

      30 March 1936 At the suggestion of Elaine Griffiths, C.A. Furth of George Allen & Unwin approaches Tolkien to ask if he would edit the new edition of Clark Hall’s Beowulf, or suggest someone else for the job. The context of his letter suggests that this is not the first time he has made this request. (See entry for ?Early 1936.)

      26 April 1936 Trinity Full Term begins. Tolkien’s scheduled lectures for this term are: Outlines of Old English Phonology and Grammar on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12.00 noon in the Examination Schools, beginning 28 April; and Introduction to Old English Poetry on Thursdays at 11.00 a.m. in the Examination Schools, beginning 30 April. But because Tolkien is still recovering from his squash injury, his lectures are cancelled, and instead he reads Old Norse and Old English texts with small classes at home in 20 Northmoor Road: Atlakviða on Tuesdays at 11:00 a.m.; Völundarkviða and Deor’s Lament on Thursdays at 11.00 a.m.; and Andreas with other Old English texts on Thursdays at 5.00 p.m. Undergraduates wishing to attend are required to inform Tolkien in advance, if possible before 28 April. – Tolkien will continue to supervise B.Litt. student M.E. Griffiths, who is required to apply for a certificate during this term (but apparently abandons her thesis, as she is no longer listed in Michaelmas Term 1936).

      28 April 1936 Tolkien writes a nine-page historical note on inflexions in Primitive Quendian, entitled *Primitive Quendian Structure.

      April or May 1936 The Rev. Adrian Morey writes to Tolkien. He has discovered an Anglo-Saxon version of the Lord’s Prayer (‘Our Father’) in a manuscript in the British Museum, and asks if it is worth publishing. Tolkien suggests that Morey write an article, which would be useful to students.

      ?May–?June 1936 C.S. Lewis lends Tolkien his copy of The Silver Trumpet by Owen Barfield. It is much appreciated by the Tolkien children.

      1 May 1936 In the evening, Tolkien, on crutches, attends a dinner of The Society hosted by Sir Francis Wylie at Brasenose College, Oxford. Nineteen members are present; no paper being presented, they give themselves up to conversation.

      9 May 1936 Italy formally annexes Ethiopia. The King of Italy assumes the title ‘Emperor of Ethiopia’.

      13 May 1936 The Rev. Adrian Morey acknowledges Tolkien’s reply. Tolkien will later recall that he

      once (lightheartedly) began to collect material for the history of the “Our Father” in English – inspired by some correspondence with Dom Adrian Morey. I thought it would mainly concern minor changes in syntax (as which, who), and the variants used for temptation and trespass(es); but I soon found that it was a much more complicated matter, not only because of the divergence between the use as a prayer and the translations of the Gospels, but because of the difficulties in the Greek and Latin texts. Also there have been a very large number of divergent versions in English, and there are still several in use…. [Tolkien Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford]

      E.O.G. Turville-Petre will send him copies of two Icelandic versions in April 1943.

      15 May 1936 Tolkien attends an English Faculty Board meeting. He submits manuscript and mimeographed proposals for a revision of texts prescribed or cited in the regulations for the English Honour School. – He also attends a Pembroke College meeting.

      17 May 1936 The Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, Dr Williams, comes to Oxford to commemorate the seventh centenary of the death of the Blessed Agnellus of Pisa, sent to England by St Francis to found a province of the Franciscan Order. The Archbishop visits the site of the first Franciscan church in the country. The Times of 19 May will list Tolkien among those ‘who took part in the procession from Campion Hall to the site of the church’ and that ‘during the morning a Mass was sung in the church of [St] Edmund and St Frideswide, near the new Greyfriars Friary, in the presence of the Archbishop’ (p. 28).

      21 May 1936 The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition by C.S. Lewis is published. In his preface Lewis notes that ‘the first chapter was read and commented upon by Mr. B. Macfarlane [i.e. Bruce McFarlane] and Professor Tolkien so long ago that they have probably forgotten the labour, but I do not therefore forget the kindness.’

      June 1936 The June number of Medium Ævum no longer lists Tolkien as a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for the Study of Mediæval Languages and Literature, but he is now on its Editorial Board with C.T. Onions, Eugène Vinaver, and others. He will continue to be on the Editorial Board until his retirement from academic duties in 1959.

      2 June 1936 Tolkien has apparently undertaken to act as one of the examiners for the M.A. degree at the University of London for four years. He receives some M.A. papers to mark on this date, from E.V. Gordon who seems to have acted as liaison.

      3 June 1936 E.V. Gordon, having realized that he had said nothing about the marking system when he sent the papers, writes to explain it. He has read the edition of Seinte Iuliene and is ‘grieved that your name is not attached to it, because … practically all that is especially valuable in it is recognisably yours. There is really no other piece of Middle English editing to touch it. And СКАЧАТЬ