17-11-2013, 10:12
Concernant les conceptions de J.R.R. Tolkien sur l'oralité (à propos d'Errance) :
« Also it was intriguing to get an oral version – which bore out my views on oral tradition (at any rate in early stages): sc. that the 'hard words' are well preserved, and the more common words altered, but the metre is often disturbed. »
Letter 133, to Rayner Unwin (1952)