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The Bovadium Fragments : Together with ‘the Origin of Bovadium’ by Richard Ovenden

by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 0008737762
ISBN-13 9780008737764
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint HarperCollins
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 9th, 2025
Print length 144 Pages
Weight 270 grams
Dimensions 22.80 x 14.90 x 1.20 cms
Product Classification: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Fantasy Myth & legend told as fiction Short stories
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World first publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an essay, The Origin of Bovadium, by Richard Ovenden OBE.
World first publication of a previously unknown short satirical fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, and accompanied by illustrations from the author together with an essay, The Origin of Bovadium, by Richard Ovenden OBE.As Christopher Tolkien notes in his Introduction, The Bovadium Fragments was a ‘satirical fantasy’ written by his father, which grew out of a planning controversy that erupted in Oxford in the late 1940s, when J.R.R. Tolkien was the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature.Written initially for his own amusement, Tolkien’s tale was a private academic jest that poked gentle fun at such things as ''the pomposities of archaeologists'' and ''the hideousness of college crockery''. However, it was at the same time expressing a barbed cri de coeur against the inexorable rise of motor transport and ''machine-worship'' that was overwhelming the tranquillity of his beloved city.Enriched by a selection of illustrations by the author, and enhanced by Christopher Tolkien''s notes and commentary, readers can enjoy at last this tale of an imagined Oxford viewed through the lens of future (and not wholly reliable) academic study.Richard Ovenden''s accompanying essay paints a vivid portrait of Oxford during that time. He also provides rich background to the casus belli which led to the furore that Tolkien witnessed first-hand, as the embers of debate between town planners and the university colleges were fanned into flame.Playful, erudite, and ultimately tragically moving, The Bovadium Fragments is like nothing else that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote, and its themes remain both provocative and timely. Within its lines may be found a concern for the fragility of our natural world, a love of which that was shared by both father and son. As Christopher Tolkien’s final presentation of his father’s work, it is therefore perhaps fitting that The Bovadium Fragments should be their coda.

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