Tom Shippey

Tom Shippey
Biographical information
Born	September 9th, 1943
Education	Oxford University
Occupation	Author

Thomas Alan Shippey (1943) taught at the University of Oxford at the same time as J.R.R. Tolkien and with the same syllabus, which gives him an intimate familiarity with the works that fueled Tolkien's imagination. He subsequently held the chair of English language and medieval literature at Leeds University that Tolkien had previously held. He currently holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St. Louis University in Missouri.

Bibliography

• 1982: The Road to Middle-earth (first edition)
• 1989: Amon Hen 100
  • "Tolkien's Academic Reputation Now"
• 1993: The Road to Middle-earth (second edition)
• 2000: J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances
  • "Orcs, Wraiths, Wights: Tolkien's Images of Evil"
• 2001: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
• 2002: Foreword to third edition of A Tolkien Compass
• 2003: The Road to Middle-earth (third edition)
• 2004: Tolkien Studies: Volume 1
  • "Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem"
  • "J.R.R. Tolkien, A Checklist" (with Douglas A. Anderson)
• 2005: Understanding The Lord of the Rings
  • Article on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings
• 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, entries:
  • "Alliterative Verse by Tolkien"
  • "Tom Buchan, John (1875-1940)"
  • "Cruces in Medieval Literature"
  • "Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963)"
  • "Literature, Twentieth Century: Influence of Tolkien"
  • "Mythology, Germanic"
  • "New Glossary of the Dialect of the Huddersfield District, A"
  • "Old Norse Language"
  • "Owl and the Nightingale, The"
  • "Poems by Tolkien in Other Languages"
  • "Poems by Tolkien: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil"
  • "Poems by Tolkien: Uncollected"
  • "Scholars of Medieval Literature, Influence of"
  • "Ylfe, Álfar, Elves"
• 2007: Roots and Branches: Selected papers on Tolkien
• 2007: Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings
  • "New Learning and New Ignorance: Magia, Goeteia, and the Inklings"
• 2008: Foreword to edition of Tales from the Perilous Realm

Filmography

• 1992: Tolkien Remembered - Himself
• 1998: An Awfully Big Adventure: J.R.R. Tolkien - Himself
• 2001: Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring - Himself
• 2002: Page to Screen: The Lord of the Rings - Himself
• 2003: J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-Earth - Himself

Awards

• 1984 - Mythopoeic Award, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, The Road to Middle-earth
• 2001 - Mythopoeic Award, Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
• 2001 - World Fantasy Award, Special Award Professional, J.R.R. Tolkien:Author of the Century

External links

• Tom Shippey profile at Saint Louis University
• Tolkien and Iceland: the Philology of Envy. Tom Shippey's lecture at the University of Iceland.