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'''Verlyn Flieger''' is the Professor in the Department of English at [[wikipedia:University of Maryland|the University of Maryland]]. She has written several [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]-related books. She is also a multiple [[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Award]] winner. | '''Verlyn Flieger''' is the Professor in the Department of English at [[wikipedia:University of Maryland|the University of Maryland]]. She has written several [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]-related books. She is also a multiple [[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Award]] winner. | ||
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| Born | 24 February 1933[1] |
| 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 Michael D.C. Drout, Flieger is co-editor of Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review.[2] She is also a member of the Board of Academic Advisors for Walking Tree Publishers.[3]
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: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien
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"
- 2012: The Broken Scythe: Death and Immortality in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
- Preface
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)
- 2012: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 9 (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
References
- ↑ "Verlyn Flieger", LibraryThing (accessed 21 January 2012)
- ↑ "Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review", West Virginia University Press (accessed 21 January 2012)
- ↑ "Walking Tree Publishers Board of Advisors", Walking Tree Publihers (accessed 21 January 2012)
