English and Welsh

All you want to know about English and Welsh

As an adjective "English and Welsh" refers to England and Wales.

English and Welsh is the title of J. R. R. Tolkien's valedictory address to the University of Oxford of 1955, explaining the origin of the word "Welsh".

In a lengthy sidenote, Tolkien discusses his notions of "native tongue" as opposed to "cradle tongue", and of an inherited taste of language. The lecture sheds light on Tolkien's conceptions of the connections of race, ethnicity and language.

References

Tolkien, J.R.R. "English and Welsh" in The Monsters and the Critics, 1983 (ISBN 0-04-809019-0) [1]

v • d • e Works by J. R. R. Tolkien

Fiction	Songs for the Philologists (1936) · The Hobbit or There and Back Again (1937) · Leaf by Niggle (1945) · The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) · Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) · The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) · The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (1954), The Two Towers (1954), The Return of the King (1955) · The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book (1962) · The Road Goes Ever On (1967) · Tree and Leaf (1964) · The Tolkien Reader (1966) · Smith of Wootton Major (1967)

Posthumous fiction	The Father Christmas Letters (1976) · The Silmarillion (1977) · Unfinished Tales (1980) · Bilbo's Last Song (1990) · The History of Middle-earth (12 Volumes) (1983–1996) · Roverandom (1998) · The Children of Húrin (2007) · The History of The Hobbit (2007)

Academic	A Middle English Vocabulary (1922) · Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) · Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography (1925) · The Devil's Coach Horses (1925) · Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad (1929) · The Name 'Nodens' (1932) · Sigelwara Land parts I and II, in Medium Aevum (1932-34) · Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale (1934) · Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics (1936) · The Reeve's Tale: version prepared for recitation at the 'summer diversions' (1939) · On Fairy-Stories (1939) · Sir Orfeo (1944) · Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death (1953) · Middle English "Losenger": Sketch of an etymological and semantic enquiry (1953) · Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle (1962) · English and Welsh (1963) · Introduction to Tree and Leaf (1964) · Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer) (1966) · Tolkien on Tolkien (autobiographical) (1966)

Posthumous academic	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (Modern English translations, 1975) · Finn and Hengest (1982) · The Monsters and the Critics (1983) · Beowulf and the Critics (2002)