Haldane was the brother of the well-known writer and important correspondent of Tolkien, Naomi Mitchison. It was she, I believe, who read Tolkien's attempt to rewrite The Hobbit into a style more like LotR, and said "It's not The Hobbit."
Spacks' essay on Tolkien, then called "Ethical Pattern in Lord of the Rings," was published in Critique v. 3 no. 1 (Spring-Fall 1956). The Isaacs/Zimbardo version is revised as well as retitled.
Source: Richard West's Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist, which is my first stop for early Tolkien critical bibliography.
Haldane was the brother of the well-known writer and important correspondent of Tolkien, Naomi Mitchison. It was she, I believe, who read Tolkien's attempt to rewrite The Hobbit into a style more like LotR, and said "It's not The Hobbit."
Spacks' essay on Tolkien, then called "Ethical Pattern in Lord of the Rings," was published in Critique v. 3 no. 1 (Spring-Fall 1956). The Isaacs/Zimbardo version is revised as well as retitled.
Source: Richard West's Tolkien Criticism: An Annotated Checklist, which is my first stop for early Tolkien critical bibliography.
Sorry, that was a typo on my part: 1959, not 1956. It's not quite that early!