Ryan Harvey, in ‘Where Head and Tail Meet: E. ‘The Lord of the Rings’, however, is written mostly in modern English, while Eddison wrote the greater part of Ouroboros in sixteenth-century English. This heroic high fantasy novel is often compared with Tolkien's ‘The Lord of the Rings’, which was written many years later. Lewis was also an admirer, opining that ‘no writer can be said to remind us of Eddison’.ĭart-Thornton’s new introduction explains the origin of the Ouroboros symbol and discusses Tolkien’s critical reaction to Eddison’s work. Tolkien’s close friend and confidante, author C.S. Eddison, he stated, was ‘the greatest and most convincing writer of “invented worlds”’ he had ever read. Tolkien, who was aged thirty at the time, praised it in print, writing in a letter that he enjoyed Eddison’s books ‘for their sheer literary merit’. This epic tale was first published in 1922 under the title ‘The Worm Ouroboros’.
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