***Mythopoeia. Mytho-poesis.***

That’s the word that his fellow academics started using to describe what Tolkien did, a word which Tolkien himself gave them. A bit of a kook, that literature professor. But this is a respectable institution,

• Oxford, Where Tolkien Was A Professor, Of Literature, Of Mythology

Where was I? Ah, I have forgotten myself.

I have forgotten myself again.

Ah yes, Master Tolkien. Master Tolkien, who was he? The intellectual architect of Mythopoeia. A new subject, or field of study, that we offer here at Oxford University, studying old myths and epic poems and using them to make new myths and epic poems, usually for children. J.R.R. Tolkien and his friend C.S. Lewis inspired J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin and an entire genre of mythopoets...

Now, where were we? Ah yes, Oxford.

• The Legend Of The Founding Of Oxford

Wait!? What did Tolkien do again? He was a professor.

***Professor

1. A teacher of the highest rank in a college or university.
2. A person who affirms a faith in or allegiance to something.*** Late Middle English: from Latin  professor, from  profess - to ‘declare publicly’, to ‘take a vow’ from the verb profiteri  (see ‘Profess’).

Wait ‘profiteri,’ that sounds like profits. What do profits have to do with professors?

Profit

1. A financial gain, especially the difference between the amount earned and the amount spent in buying, operating, or producing something.
2. Advantage; benefit.
3. Be beneficial to.

Middle English (in the sense ‘advantage, benefit’): from Old French, from Latin profectus  ‘progress, profit’, from proficere ‘to advance’, from pro- ‘on behalf of’ + facere ‘do’. The verb is from Old French profiter.

[What?! Tolkien was a Professor at Oxford?!

Wait. Wait… WAIT…]

J.R.R. Tolkien, a professor, who professes, who declares publicly, who takes a vow, who affirms his faith and allegiance, who is a teacher of the highest rank — at the University of Oxford, which was founded by Arthur and Merlin, a University in The West, all of which descend from The Scholastics, through the line of Saint Thomas Aquinas, a University, which studies the whole universe and everything in it, which gathers and synthesizes insights into the nature of reality — Tolkien, a professor, who professes, who helps us profess, who progresses our learning, so that we make profit, so that we advance, on behalf of… what?… so that we do… what?

Mythology. Poetry.

Why?

Something to do with Names & Destinies…

Plunge! Deeper still! Into the mystery!!!