Peter Schellen
Peter-Willem Schellen, also known as Fëanor, is a Dutch Tolkien collector and author.
History
Schellen is a former treasurer and audit committee member of Unquendor,[1] co-founder of the now defunct South African Tolkien Society Haradrim, publisher of Tolkien periodical Voronwë,[2] innkeeper of Unquendor smial Gondolin, and incubator of Tolkien societies in Slovenia and Israel.
He is also a collector and a number of his articles have appeared in Amon Hen and Lembas.[3]
His research in South Africa was donated to Unquendor and later used by Renee Vink in her article on Tolkien and South Africa.[4]
From 1994 to 1996 Schellen also published a periodical named Voronwë for his smial.[5]
Schellen presented at Unquendor end of year meetings and the twenty-seventh Forodrim jubilee in 1996.
Priscilla Tolkien signed and gifted Schellen a 2005 Tolkien calendar in appreciation of his fandom work in South Africa.[6]
More recently, Peter has supported the Afrikaans translations of the Lord of the Rings by pointing out translation errors.
Bibliography
Articles
- 1999: Angerthas 49
- "Portrait of Bloemfontein"[7]
- 1999: Amon Hen 159
- "Portrait of Bloemfontein"
- 2001: Amon Hen 167
- "Obituary: Rayner Unwin"
References
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/19991011062213/http://www.unquendor.nl/wie.html (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://tolkienfrance.chez.com/tolkienco/fanzinesbis.html (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20020314174435/http://www.unquendor.nl/door_leden/door_leden.html (accessed 05-12-2011)
- ↑ https://www.academia.edu/16197971/Tolkien_in_Zuid_Afrika
- ↑ https://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Tolkien/Marque.html
- ↑ https://www.tolkienguide.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=13658
- ↑ https://www.sociedadtolkien.org/blog/2022/10/09/angerthas-2/
