Tolkien’s work on the Oxford Dictionary

To Tolkien scholars and fans it is no news that Tolkien, after graduating and returning from the WWI front, worked on the team that was compiling the Oxford Dictionary. It was between 1919 and 1920 and Tolkien worked on a number of words starting with W. More on that can be read here.

A big Czech Tolkien enthusiast, Starý Bral, was so fascinated by this aspect of Tolkien’s work, that he set to and managed to find and purchase the complete set of the first edition of the Oxford Dictionary, and brought the particular volume, which features Tolkien’s entries, to present it at the fantasy festival Tam a zase spátky.

So here you have an opportunity to see authentic pictures of the volume and corresponding pages.

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