Ronald Tolkien" since it seems he went by Ronald? Is there any record for why Tolkien chose or was convinced to use this? If you happen to know why other authors around this time period chose to use initials, I'd be happy hear about this also--the only case I know about is the recent case of JK Rowling.
In the present day, when an author like J. In Rowling's case, the reason was that the publishers thought young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman. This plausibility is based on certain assumptions about "normal" names in the English-speaking world:. Based on such assumptions, it is reasonable to wonder about other authors, like J. Tolkien: for example, one may speculate that he used initials because he was an academic scholar wishing to adopt a somewhat different pen name in his books for children, just as Charles Lutwidge Dodgson became "Lewis Carroll".
Most of us know, I guess, that these assumptions do not necessarily hold across different cultures. Even "obvious" assumptions may be false , and personal names around the world vary. For instance, the children of V. Achuthanandan are named V.
Arunkumar and V. Asha, and this is perfectly natural. Pointers on Wikipedia: personal name , anthroponymy , personal names , personal names by culture.
So if one is willing to abandon one's cultural conditioning and be a little open-minded about what sort of names people are allowed to have, it turns out that:. This applies not just to Tolkien but to many early 20th-century English authors as asked at the now-deleted question. We do not need to look for special literary reasons, because these authors were not doing anything special.
The names with initials were not their noms de plume but simply their conventional names that they used in other aspects of life. We can take a deeper look at the milieu of E. Forster born , J. Tolkien born and T. Eliot born , by looking at the styles of names in fields other than literature. As a proxy for getting a representative list of names, let's look at:. There are even more that did not use initials, of course. This cherry-picked list of names is only to illustrate that people using names with initials were not uncommon, and presumably there aren't necessarily special literary reasons for being part of that trend.
It does seem to be a trend: the occurrence seems to peak in that rough period. Note that these non-literary people did not use their initials as "pen names" for some special literary purpose — these were simply the names by which they were known in real life, the names by which articles about them are still titled.
Raman, S. Bose, J. Bose continuing to the present day , and people from the literary world like R. Narayan or V. Doing a statistical analysis over some larger and more representative dataset of names will let you know whether authors like Forster and Tolkien were picking a name style unusual for their time. Was the name with initials a nom de plume he adopted for non-scholarly works?
Here are the covers of a scholarly work of his, and the second edition of another:. Tolkien first published a work of fiction in The Hobbit. If we search on Google Books for books before , and look for strings like "Mr.
Tolkien", "Mr. John Tolkien", "Mr. Ronald Tolkien", "Mr. John Ronald Tolkien" and "Mr. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien", we find results only for the first one. Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society, :. The University Bulletin, The Periodical, :.
The runes told the story of the rings origins : the Rings for all the Kings and Lords of the midlle Earth and the One which control all of them.
Gandalf was suspicious of the Ring, and later forced the real story from Bilbo. The Orcs of Isengard, an army born from the deep pits around Saruman tower : a large numbers of powerful warrior Orcs called "Uruk-hai".
Treebeard, leader of the Ents, seeing that the Orcs would destroy his forest of Fangorn, led an army of trees to Isengard, destroyed and flooded it. Narsil was a longsword used by his Isildur to cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand during the battle of the last alliance. The shards of Narsil were reforged by the Elves.
Gollum attacks the invisible Frodo , and bite off his finger. So happy to get his precious back, Gollum loses his balance and falls into the lava. The Ring is destroyed, Sauron's power as well and Middle finger of Frodo as well Special Offer : Buy 2 pictures, Get 3! Log in or Create account. Cart 0. Menu Cart 0. If you want more explanation about the logo, let's go inside the drawing!
Let's do some Fun fonts monogram with J J R T letters I've tried to do the same work that tolkien did when building up his monogram. I've used the -Ringbearer- font you could find here, and stacks the 4 letters one on each other : The second "R" is in Russian mode and the result is pretty close to the Tolien symbol except for the 2 packs of four dots and the flame on the top of it.
History of the tolkien Monogram I've done investigations with looking at the books editions and Tolkien's illustrations to retrace the history of this monogram as the Monogram did evolve from to , followed by 30 years without monogram modification and some evolutions made by publishers after his death It all started with the drawings made by JrrTolkien he signed with his own sigature and it started in Signed with full name Ronald Tolkien!
Rolls Royce style for a farm drawing This farm is known as lamb's farm source , later baptised as phoenix farm. Sketchbook and double R First apparition of the double R in a mirror effect. Tolkien in Love - The monogram evolution is a very special time for Tolkien : he fell in love with Edith in and wasn't allow to see her for years otherwise he would have to cancel his studies at Oxford.
Source Tolkien is in love : grown up, new family and financial stability Tolkien asked Edith, she says yes and a page is turned : This is the end of his irresponsible student life. What the 4 dots means in Tolkien's Runes Tolkien started studying Finish Langage as he wants to read the "Kevala" a Finnish oral folklore and mythology. Born Joa Inside Hogwarts Castle - mystery illustrated with fun facts drawing Welcome to Hogwarts and its mystery hidden inside the fam Why the most famous James Bond car is a submarine?
Tolkien's storytelling. The first and best place to look remains the collection of Letters published after his death, and containing, among other correspondence, letters addressed to his family and friends, discussions with his editors, and detailed answers to questions sent by readers. As such, this work offers a uniquely personal window into how he went about writing the books that made him famous and creating the characters that populate them , while answering many questions that, up until then, had remained open for debate.
For more on this, see our Letters section. Tolkien is known to have confided his views. Biographical Information J. Biographical Information To learn more about J. Open all Close all When did J. Tolkien live? What was J. Tolkien's nationality? What was the author's favorite food?
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