Tolkien And Welsh - An Interview With Author Mark T. Hooker

Tolkien And Welsh (Tolkien a Chymraeg): Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's Use of Welsh in his Legendarium - An Interview With Author Mark T. Hooker

From the product description:- "Tolkien and Welsh provides an overview of J.R.R.Tolkien's use of Welsh in his Legendarium, ranging from the obvious (Gwynfa—the Welsh word for Paradise), to the apparent (Took—a Welsh surname), to the veiled (Gerontius—the Latinizaton of a royal Welsh name), to the hidden (Goldberry—the English calque of a Welsh theonym). Though it is a book by a linguist, it was written for the non-linguist with the goal of making the topic accessible. The unavoidable jargon is explained in a glossary, and the narrative presents an overview of how Welsh influenced Tolkien's story line, as well as his synthetic languages Quenya and Sindarin."
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Oes i Oes - An Interview With Nial Cain And Cass Meurig

Welsh tunes and songs, old and new. Wistful and intricate to gritty and driving acoustic folk/baroque by two of Wales’s foremost traditional musicians. 

Alawon a chaneuon Cymraeg, hen a newydd. Hiraethus a chymhleth i bras a gyrru - gwerin acwstig / baróc gan ddau o brif gerddorion traddodiadol.

AmeriCymru interviewed Nial and Cass about the album and their past and future musical projects. Please read on below.

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Americymru: Hi Nial and Cass and many thanks for agreeing to be interviewed by AmeriCymru. Please tell us more about your new album 'Oes i Oes'?

Nial – Thanks for asking us! Oes i Oes was originally  going to be an album with a children’s focus – we were both inspired by the David Grisman and Jerry Garcia album “Not just for Kids” (I’m sure some readers will be familiar with this recording, and if not, I unreservedly recommend it!) This was the idea of a grown up album using material that was originally children’s. And that still might appeal to kids. So some of the songs are children’s songs or hwiangerddi – lullabies, nursery rhymes, and some other lyrics are semi nonsense and are from penillion, which is a traditional body of verses sung either to any tune that would fit, or used for Cerdd Dant. Some I remember singing at school. And though at pains to retain the traditional feel, we’ve sometimes been quite cavalier in our treatment, putting lyrics to different melodies and vice versa and even writing new music or lyrics if we thought it would be successful. It progressed from the original concept to some extent, but hopefully still retains a sense of the childlike.

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Croeso/Welcome To The Welsh American Bookstore

For some time now we have been striving to provide a useful bookstore for our members and readers. Our earlier efforts were built around an Amazon astore and subsequently an Amazon astore embedded on the AmeriCymru site in a series of linked pages. Neither of these alternatives were satisfactory so we decided to upgrade.

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First, the new bookstore allows us to include books from sources other than Amazon. Whenever possible, we will advertise direct links to publishers in Wales and to Welsh booksellers and do whatever we can to stimulate interest in, and purchases of, their titles. Pennies we make from affiliate fees go toward maintenance of the AmeriCymru network AND subsidizing our efforts to bring Welsh authors and artists to events like the Wordstock ( and possibly other ) literary festivals in the US.

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We are raising funds for 'transportation' and secure accommodation for the three serial literary perpetrators pictured below

 

Mike Jenkins

Phil Rowlands

Chris Keil

 

Please purchase eto here to Review the Evidence. All funds raised through the Purchase of eto will contribute toward securing Transportation of these  Malefactors to the Colonies in October for Hard Labor at the 2013 Wordstock Literary Festival.

 

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