Verlyn Flieger

Verlyn Flieger
Biographical information
Born	24 February 1933
Occupation	Author, Professor

Verlyn Flieger is the Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. She has written several J.R.R. Tolkien-related books. She is also a multiple Mythopoeic Award winner.

With Douglas A. Anderson and Michael D.C. Drout, Flieger is co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review. She is also a member of the Board of Academic Advisors for Walking Tree Publishers.

Bibliography

Books

• 1983: Splintered Light
• 1988: A Question of Time
• 2000: Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (editor, with Carl F. Hostetter)
• 2002: Splintered Light (expanded edition)
• 2005: Smith of Wootton Major (editor)
• 2005: Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology
• 2007: Tolkien On Fairy-stories (editor, with Douglas A. Anderson)
• 2011: Green Suns and Faëire

Articles

• 1986: Diakonia: Studies in Honor of Robert T. Meyer
  • "Naming the Unnameable: The Neoplatonic 'One' in Tolkien's Silmarillion"
• 1987: Selections from the Marquette J.R.R. Tolkien Collection
  • "A Tale that Grew in the Telling"
• 1993: Scholarship and Fantasy
  • "The Green Man, the Green Knight, and Treebeard: Scholarship and Invention in Tolkien's Fiction"
• 1994: Mythos Journal
  • "Pitfalls in Faëry"
• 1995: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference
  • "Tolkien's Experiment with Time: The Lost Road, The Notion Club Papers and J.W.Dunne"
• 1998: Between Faith and Fiction: Tolkien and the Powers of His World
  • "Whose Myth is it?"
• 2000: J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances
  • "Taking the Part of Trees: Eco-Conflict in Middle-earth"
• 2000: Tolkien's Legendarium (editor, with Carl F. Hostetter)
  • "The Footsteps of Ælfwine"
• 2004: Tolkien Studies: Volume 1 (editor)
  • "Editors' Introduction"
  • "Do the Atlantis story and abandon Eriol-Saga"
• 2005: Tolkien Studies: Volume 2 (editor)
  • "Editors' Introduction"
• 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment, entries
  • "Arthurian Romance"
  • "Barfield, Owen"
  • "Faërie"
  • "Frame Narrative"
  • "Light"
  • "Lost Road, The"
  • "Memory"
  • "Old Norse Translations"
  • "Poems by Tolkien: The Hobbit"
  • "Poems by Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings"
  • "Smith of Wooton Major"
  • "Time"
  • "Time Travel"
• 2006: Tolkien Studies: Volume 3 (editor)
  • "Editors' Introduction"
  • "Karen Wynn Fonstad"
• 2007: Tolkien Studies: Volume 4 (editor)
  • "The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow: Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-earth"
• 2007: Myth and Magic: Art according to the Inklings
  • "When is a Fairy Story a Faërie Story? Smith of Wootton Major"
• 2008: Tolkien Studies: Volume 5 (editor)
  • "Editors' Introduction"
• 2008: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings – Sources of Inspiration
  • "Gilson, Smith and Baggins"
• 2011: Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
  • "Sometimes One Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures"

Journals (editor)

• 2004: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 1 (co-editor)
• 2005: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 2 (co-editor)
• 2006: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 3 (co-editor)
• 2007: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 4 (co-editor)
• 2008: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 5 (co-editor)
• 2009: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 6 (co-editor)
• 2010: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 7 (co-editor)
• 2011: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 8 (co-editor)

Awards

• 1988: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Road to Faërie
• 2002: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth

External links

• Official website
• Verlyn Flieger at Wikipedia
• The real Lord of the Rings