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The Hobbitonian Anthology

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|date=[[June 17]], [[2009]]
|format=Paperback
|pages=286 pgs
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'''The Hobbitonian Anthology''' is a book by [[Mark T. Hooker]], illustrated by [[James Dunning]].
==From the Publisher==
This monograph is the second collection of analytic articles on [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s "[[The Lord of the Rings]]" and "[[The Hobbit]]," written by Tolkien scholar and Comparative Translationist [[Mark T. Hooker]], most famous, perhaps, for his application of Comparative Translation to the study of Tolkien.

The collection is a miscellany, but largely linguistic in nature. Part One of the book is about names: [[Bilbo]], [[Bag-End]], [[Boffin]], [[Farmer Maggot]], [[Puddifoot Family|Puddifoot]], [[Stoor]], [[William Huggins|Huggins]], [[Tom Bombadil]], [[Ivy Bush|The Ivy Bush]], [[The Golden Perch]], and a bevy of place names, including the [[Four Shire Stone]] and the Rollright Stones in the neighborhood of [[Evesham]], the ancestral home of Tolkien’s mother’s family, the [[Mabel Suffield|Suffield]]s. The articles in Part One discuss the meanings of these names and their English analogues, both from a linguistic, a geographic, and biographic viewpoint. The articles in Part Two explore the terms bootless, nine days’ wonder, [[Uncommon words|confusticate]] and bebother, hundredweight, and [[Uncommon words|leechcraft]]. In Part Three, Hooker continues his work in translation studies, looking at the Bulgarian, Belorussian, Czech, Slovak, Dutch, German, Polish, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian translations of "The Hobbit" with a series of comparative pieces on how the translators handled Tolkien’s nomenclature.

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Dwaling

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'''Dwaling''' was a village in the far Northern parts of the [[Eastfarthing]] of the [[Shire]], just North of the hills of [[Scary]].

==Etymology==
In ''[[A Tolkienian Mathomium]]''<ref>Hooker, Mark, ''A Tolkienian Mathomium'', Llyfrawr, 2006, pp. 49-52</ref>, [[Mark T. Hooker|Mark Hooker]] argues cogently that the place name ''Dwaling'' is the name of the Tolkien Family Estate in [[The Shire]]. It is composed of Tolkien's own translation of his surname into Gothic (''Dwalakoneis''), truncated to the first closed syllable as is common in place names of this type, plus the ending ''–ing'', which means "descendants of [name]".

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A Tolkienian Mathomium

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{{book
|title=A Tolkienian Mathomium
|image=[[Image:A Tolkienian Mathomium.jpg|225px]]
|author=[[Mark T. Hooker]]
|publisher=Llyfrawr
|date=May 9th, 2006
|format=Paperback & Hardcover
|pages=291 pgs
|isbn=1438246315
}}
'''A Tolkienian Mathomium''' is a book by [[Mark T. Hooker]], illustrated by [[James Dunning]]
==From the Publisher==
This monograph is a collection of analytic articles--both previously published and unpublished in about equal measure - on [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' and ''[[The Hobbit]]'', written by Tolkien scholar and Comparative Translationist [[Mark T. Hooker]], most famous, perhaps, for his application of Comparative Translation to the study of Tolkien. All of the articles in the book have been reviewed and revised to take into consideration the materials newly made available in ''[[The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion]]''.

==Reviews==

* [[Beyond Bree]] and [[Hither Shore]] say that there is "something here for everyone with even a passing interest in Tolkien. All of the articles are well researched, insightful, and highly informative."
* [[Amon Hen (journal)|Amon Hen]] (the September 2006 issue) says: "Highly recommendable."
* [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4]] ran with a review saying it was a "pleasantly eccentric volume" . . . "Hooker has a wide variety of things to say that have not been heard before."
* [[Lembas (journal)|Lembas]] (No. 130, August 2007) says: "All in all, certainly a book that's worth the effort of taking the time to go through peacefully. For linguists--language nuts or not--and also for others, certainly one of the better products of [Tolkien] fandom."
* [[Tolkienguide.com |Tolkien Collector's Guide]] says: "a good read and a good reference, so go buy a copy if you haven't already."

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