Fingolfin's Findings XLVI: Back to School: Tolkien and Me (Samuel Jay Keyser)

Samuel Jay Keyser (…) is an American theoretical linguist (Öffnet in neuem Fenster) who is an authority on the history and structure of the English language and on linguistic approaches to literary criticism.” [Wikipedia (Öffnet in neuem Fenster)]

What you probably do not know - and it is certainly not mentioned in this academic’s WP entry - is that he was a pupil of J.R.R. Tolkien’s.

Pembroke College, Oxford, where Tolkien was a fellow. Credit: Andrew Shiva / Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 4.0.

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