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James Trilling
James Trilling is an independent art historian specializing in Byzantium, world ornament, and the origins of modernism. His interest in Tolkien goes back more than sixty years.
Criticism
One Man’s Modernism
J. R. R. Tolkien
James Trilling
July 1, 2019
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