Philology: The Real Professional Bag of Tricks (short story)

Philology: The Real Professional Bag of Tricks was the fifth story in the anthology Stranger Tales of the City. It was written by James Bojaciuk.

Summary
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Characters

 * J. R. R. Tolkien
 * Florence Briscoe
 * Victoria Waterfield

Individuals

 * Victoria works under the professional name "V.M. McCrimmon," implying she's since married Jamie McCrimmon in the City. Matching her husband, she wears a kilt The Enemy of the World (TV story).
 * Tolkien insists the historical Jesus Christ the media speaks of is a fraud, from an entirely different area of the world.
 * Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida attend Aemos' discussion at the University of the Seven Ages. They make no attempt to help him.

Literature

 * The Jama'a have absorbed The Lord of the Rings into their myth cycle.
 * Tolkien is concerned by infinitesimal errors the Jama'a committed in retelling his work (the hobbits did not possess pink dye; the translation of elvish was poor). He doesn't understand why someone would be concerned about how he'd take the hobbits being played by African men, and directs them to the notes on Hobbits in the beginning of the book. The majority of hobbits--and, indeed, the hobbits who set out on the Ring Quest--were black.
 * Charles Dickens' novels are no longer illustrated.

Locations

 * Aemos is forced to speak at The University of the Seven Ages The Socratic Problem (short story).
 * The Jama'a are situated on a ship in RealSpace Of the City of the Saved... (novel).

Species

 * The Jama'a civilization was killed and replaced by Sentient oil. Sentient oil beings are not sufficiently human to resurrect in the City.

Continuity

 * Victoria Waterfield also worked under the name "V.M. McCrimmon" in Postscript (Short Story).