Tom Shippey

Thomas Alan Shippey ( born September 9, 1943 in Calcutta, British India), also Tom Shippey, is a British anglistischer and skandinavistischer medievalist. Shippey is Professor Emeritus of Old English language and literature of the " English Department " Saint Louis University.

Life

In addition to works for teaching and research of Old English literature, Shippey published in particular to the work of JRR Tolkien, as well as to modern fantasy and science fiction. He is widely regarded as one of the leading researchers Tolkien.

Shippeys life and work often intersects with that of Tolkien; like this he went to the King Edward 's School in Birmingham and taught Old English language at the University of Oxford. He has also held Tolkien's former chair at the University of Leeds.

Under the pseudonym " Tom Allen" he wrote two stories that have been published in anthologies by Peter Weston. First, the fantasy story " King Dragon" in Andromeda 2 in 1977, was published; after 1978, the science fiction short story "Not Absolute " in Andromeda 3

Under the pseudonym " John Holm", he is also co-author ( with Harry Harrison) of The Hammer and the Cross trilogy of novels an alternative history of the Middle Ages.

In 2009, he wrote a 21-page scholarly introduction to Flights of Eagles, a collection of works by James Blishs.

In addition to his self-written books, he also gave out The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories and The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories. In 2003 he was the editor of the journal Studies in medievalism. He is also on the editorial board in Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review.

  • Old English Verse. Hutchinson, London: 1972.
  • Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English. D. S.. Brewer, Ltd., Cambridge 1976; 2nd edition, 1977.
  • Beowulf. in the series: Arnold's Studies in English Literature. London 1978.
  • The Road to Middle-earth. Allen & Unwin, London, 1982 ( Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1983); 2nd edition ( Harper Collins, London, 1993), also revised and enlarged edition ( Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2003); German The Road to Middle-earth, from the English by Helmut W. Pesch. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-608-93601-8.
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. Harper Collins, London: 2000 ( Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001); German J. R. R. Tolkien. Author of the century. from the English by Wolfgang Krege. Klett- Cotta, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-608-93432-4.
  • Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien. Walking Tree Publishers, Cormarë - row 11, Zurich and Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-905703-05-4.
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