Jason Fisher
From Tolkien Gateway
Jason Fisher is an American independent scholar specializing in J.R.R. Tolkien, the Inklings, and Medieval Germanic philology. He runs the blog Lingwë - Musings of a Fish.
Fisher was the editor of Mythprint, the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society, from 2010 through 2013.
Bibliography
Books
- 2011: Tolkien and the Study of His Sources (editor)
Articles
- 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
- "Family Trees"
- "Fëanor"
- "Galadriel"
- "Greek Gods"
- "Manuscripts by Tolkien"
- "Mythology for England"
- "Palantíri"
- "Phial"
- "Riddles"
- "Sauron Defeated"
- "Silmarils"
- "Taniquetil"
- 2006: Tolkien and Modernity 1
- "'Man does as he is when he may do as he wishes': The Perennial Modernity of Free Will"
- 2007: The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On
- "From Mythopoeia to Mythography: Tolkien, Lönnrot, And Jerome."
- 2008: Tolkien Studies: Volume 5
- "Three Rings for — Whom Exactly? And Why? Justifying the Disposition of the Three Elven Rings"
- 2010: Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza
- 2010: Mythlore 111/112
- "Dwarves, Spiders, and Murky Woods: J.R.R. Tolkien's Wonderful Web of Words."
- 2010: Mythprint (June issue, Vol. 47, No. 6, #335, on pp. 3–4)
- 2010: Middle-earth and Beyond: Essays on the World of J.R.R. Tolkien
- "Sourcing Tolkien's 'Circles of the World': Speculations on the Heimskringla, the Latin Vulgate Bible, and the Hereford Mappa Mundi"
- 2010: Middle-earth Minstrel
- "Horns of Dawn: The Tradition of Alliterative Verse in Rohan"
- 2014: Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey
- "Tolkien's Wraiths, Rings and Dragons: An Exercise in Literary Linguistics"
Reviews
- 2008: Mythprint April/May (45:4-5, #313-314)
- The Hobbit 70th Anniversary Edition by JRR Tolkien"
- 2009: Mythprint March/April (Volume 46:3-4, #324-325)
- "Tales Before Narnia edited by Douglas A. Anderson"
- 2018: Tolkien Studies: Volume 15
- "The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide ed. by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond"
