Didier Willis

Didier Willis (25 April, 1971), a French IT engineer, is President of Le Dragon de Brume, a non-profit Tolkien association.^[1]

Before that, he wrote several articles and studies on Arda in the French e-zine Hiswelókë. Amongs other things, he has compiled the Hiswelókë's Sindarin Dictionary as well as the (now unmaintained) Dragon Flame application.

Bibliography

2011: Tolkien, le façonnement d'un monde, volume 1, botany and astronomy (editor, co-author)
2014: Tolkien, le façonnement d'un monde, volume 2, astronomy and geography (editor, co-author)
2017: Fées, navigateurs & autres miscellanées en Terre du Milieu (co-editor)
2023: On some stars, flowers & places in Middle-earth (editor, main translator)
2024: On cartography, maps & locations in Middle-earth (editor, main translator, co-author)
2024: A bibliography of Tolkien studies in French & English (editor, permanent on-line publication)

Critical reviews "Tolkien, From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D" (pp. 100–2), "Tolkien, Etymological Notes on the Ósanwe-kenta, From The Shibboleth of Fëanor, Notes on Óre" pp. 104–6, in La Feuille de la Compagnie 1, cahier d'études tolkieniennes, Michaël Devaux (ed.), L'Œil du Sphinx, 2001.
Encyclopedic notices "Alphabets inventés"; "L'Anneau de Morgoth (Morgoth’s Ring)", pp. 26–9 and 47-50 in Vincent Ferré (ed.), Dictionnaire Tolkien, Paris, CNRS, 2012.
"Parole et pensée chez Tolkien : l'analogie de l'angélologie" in La Feuille de la Compagnie 3, J.R.R. Tolkien, l'Effigie des Elfes, Michaël Devaux (ed.), Bragelonne, December 2014.
"L'équivocité des conceptions valarine et elfique du "marrissement" d'Arda" in La Feuille de la Compagnie 3, J.R.R. Tolkien, l'Effigie des Elfes, Michaël Devaux (ed.), Bragelonne, December 2014.