T.P. Dunning
Thomas "Tom" Patrick Dunning (1913 — 1973) was a scholar of Anglo-Saxon at University College Dublin, and a priest and member of the Congregatio Missionis. Dunning was a native of Tiperray, Killendaule County, Ireland and was ordained a priest in 1939. He was educated at Castleknock College and the University College in Dublin. He received his masters degree in 1936 and his PhD in 1939. A specialist in Old and Middle English, he was a noted lecturer throughout Ireland and later the United States. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 1954.
Dunning was a former student of J.R.R. Tolkien; the latter started supervising Dunning's thesis on 17 October 1952.[1][2]
Tolkien inscribed a Quenya sentence — a variation on a phrase occuring in Galadriel's Lament — in Dunning's copy of The Fellowship of the Ring: "Sí man i·yulmar men enquantuva?".[2]
Bibliography, selected
Books
- 1937: Piers Plowman: An Interpretation of the A-Text (Dublin: Talbot Press; also London: Longmans)
- 1969: The Wanderer (co-editor with A.J. Bliss)
Articles
- 1962: English and Medieval Studies Presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday
- "God and Man in Troilus and Criseyde"
See also
References
- ↑ Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond (2006), The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide: I. Chronology, passim
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Carl F. Hostetter, "Re: Quenya inscription: "Sí man i·yulmar men enquantuva?"" dated 13 May 2013, Lambengolmor mailing list (accessed 18 May 2013)
