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Bookmark or Share- Tom ShippeyProfessor Emeritus, Saint Louis University. Tom Shippey has taught at six universities, including Oxford and Harvard, during a long academic career (1965-2008). He is best known for his books on Tolkien, but has also published very widely on medieval studies, and on fantasy and science fiction – including, in recent years, more than 200 ...
- Tom Shippey - Tolkien GatewayThomas Alan Shippey, Ph.D. ( 9 September, 1943) is one of the most well known scholars on J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as fantasy and science fiction in general. He describes himself as a "Tolkien polemicist".
- Amazon.com: The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien ...The Road to Middle-earth, Tom Shippey’s classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien’s professional background led him to write The Hobbit and how he created a timeless charm for millions of readers. Examining the foundation of Tolkien ...
- Tom Shippey, ‘J.R.R. Tolkien and Philology’ - The Tolkien EstateTom Shippey, a medievalist and a philologist, defines comparative philology and explains its importance for Tolkien’s literary works. The professional discipline in which J.R.R. Tolkien was trained, and which in many ways animated his creative as well as his scholarly work was that of philology, in particular comparative philology.
- Tolkienists | Tom ShippeyTom Shippey. Positions. Professor Emeritus, Saint Louis University. Visiting lecturer, Signum University. I am a professor emeritus, but retain my interest in medieval studies, as also in fantasy and science fiction. I review the latter for The Wall Street Journal, and continue to publish regularly on the former. On the web.
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