English and Welsh

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As an adjective "English and Welsh" refers to England and Wales.

English and Welsh is the title of J. R. R. Tolkien's valedictory address to the University of Oxford of 1955, explaining the origin of the word "Welsh".

In a lengthy sidenote, Tolkien discusses his notions of "native tongue" as opposed to "cradle tongue", and of an inherited taste of language. The lecture sheds light on Tolkien's conceptions of the connections of race, ethnicity and language.

[edit] See also

• Cellar door
• History of the term Vlach
• Walha

[edit] References

• Tolkien, J.R.R. "English and Welsh" in The Monsters and the Critics, 1983 (ISBN 0-04-809019-0) [1]

v • d • e Works by J. R. R. Tolkien Fiction 1930s Songs for the Philologists (1936) · The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937) 1940s Leaf by Niggle (1947) · The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) · Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) 1950s The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) · The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) · The Two Towers (1954) · The Return of the King (1955)) 1960s The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962) · Tree and Leaf (1964) · The Tolkien Reader (1966) · The Road Goes Ever On (1967) · Smith of Wootton Major (1967) Posthumous fiction 1970s The Father Christmas Letters (1976) · The Silmarillion (1977) 1980s Unfinished Tales (1980) · Mr. Bliss (1982) 1990s Bilbo's Last Song (1990) · The History of Middle-earth (12 Volumes) (1983–1996) · Roverandom (1998) 2000s The Children of Húrin (2007) · The History of The Hobbit (2007) · The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) Academic 1920s A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) · Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925) · The Devil's Coach Horses (1925) · Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) 1930s The Name "Nodens" (1932) · Sigelwara Land Parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932-34) · Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) · Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936) · The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the "summer diversions" (1939) · On Fairy-Stories (1939) 1940s Sir Orfeo (1944) · The History of Middle-earth (12 Volumes) (1983–1996) 1950s Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) · Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953) 1960s Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962) · English and Welsh (1963) · Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964) · Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966) · Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966) Posthumous academic Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Modern English translations, 1975) · Finn and Hengest (1982) · The Monsters and the Critics (1983) · Beowulf and the Critics (2002)