Charles Noad
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Charles E. Noad was a programmer, Tolkien scholar, and a long-standing member of the Tolkien Society, which he helped to found.
Life
Charles Noad was born in 1947. He worked at Imperial College, London as a computer programmer.[1]
A Tolkien fan, he was involved in the work of the Tolkien Society, which he helped to found, for over 50 years, making him its longest-standing member; he served as its bibliographer and photographer, and belonged to its London local group, the Northfarthing Smial. The society described his essay "On the Construction of The Silmarillion" as "critically important"; it was published in the 2000 scholarly collection Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter. His friendship with Christopher Tolkien led to his proofreading several Middle-earth books including The History of Middle-earth.[1]
Several Tolkien scholars knew, corresponded with, and exchanged books with Noad for 40 years or more. Douglas A. Anderson wrote that Noad's "eagle-eye as a proof-reader was legendary."[2] David Bratman described Noad's "On the Construction of The Silmarillion" as a "fascinating and well-researched and -argued" essay on what J. R. R. Tolkien would probably have done to that book, making it "more heterogeneous" than the volume edited by Christopher Tolkien and published a few months after Noad's essay.[3] John D. Rateliff called Noad "the first fellow Tolkien scholar I met".[4] Rateliff described Noad's influence on Tolkien research as "powerful but subtle", in particular on the 12-volume set of The History of Middle-earth. He described Noad's proofreading of Rateliff's The History of the Hobbit as "meticulous".[4]
Works
- 1977 The Trees, the Jewels and the Rings: A Discursive Enquiry Into Things Little Known on Middle-earth (44 pages). The Tolkien Society. ISBN 978-090552001-8.
- 2000 "On the Construction of The Silmarillion", in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-30530-6
References
- ^ a b "Obituary: Charles Noad". The Tolkien Society. 18 July 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Anderson, Douglas A. "R.I.P. Charles E. Noad (1947-2023)". Tolkien and Fantasy. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ Bratman, David (14 July 2023). "Charles E. Noad". David Bratman. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- ^ a b Rateliff, John D. (13 July 2023). "Charles Noad". Sacnoth's Scriptorium. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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and songs
- Songs for the Philologists (1936)
- The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953)
- "A Walking Song" (1954)
- The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962)
- "Errantry"
- "Fastitocalon"
- "The Sea-Bell"
- "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late"
- The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
- Bilbo's Last Song (1974)
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009)
- The Fall of Arthur (2013)
- List of Tolkien's alliterative verse
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- The Hobbit (1937)
- "Leaf by Niggle" (1947)
- The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945)
- Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
- The Lord of the Rings:
- The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
- The Two Towers (1954)
- The Return of the King (1955)
- Tree and Leaf (1964)
- The Tolkien Reader (1966)
- Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
fiction
- The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
- The Silmarillion (1977)
- Unfinished Tales (1980)
- Mr. Bliss (1982)
- The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996)
- Roverandom (1998)
- The Children of Húrin (2007)
- The History of The Hobbit (2007)
- The Story of Kullervo (2015)
- Beren and Lúthien (2017)
- The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
- The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)
- The Fall of Númenor (2022)
works
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925)
- "The Devil's Coach Horses" (1925)
- "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" (1929)
- "Sigelwara Land" (1932–34)
- "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" (1934)
- "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936)
- "On Fairy-Stories" (1939)
- "On Translating Beowulf" (1940)
- Sir Orfeo (1944)
- Ancrene Wisse (1962)
- "English and Welsh" (1963)
- Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966)
academic
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (translations, 1975)
- Exodus (1981)
- Finn and Hengest (1982)
- The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983)
- Beowulf and the Critics (2002)
- Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with "Sellic Spell" (2014)
- A Secret Vice (2016)
- Family
- Influences
- Artwork
- Languages constructed by Tolkien
- Impact of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings
- Inklings
- Mythlore
- Mythopoeic Society
- Tolkien's impact on fantasy
- Tolkien and the modernists
- Tolkien Estate
- Tolkien fandom
- The Tolkien Society
- Tolkien Studies
- Memorials
- Reception
- Tolkien research
- Works inspired by Tolkien
- Tolkien (biographical film)
- Poems and Songs of Middle Earth (album)
- Language and Human Nature
- The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary