Dimitra Fimi

Dimitra Fimi
Biographical Information
Born	2 June 1978
Education	Cardiff University
Occupation	Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature
Website	Official website

Dimitra Fimi (born 2 June 1978) is Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow. She teaches and researches on many fantasy authors. She is also co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow. Fimi is currently on the Mallorn editorial team.

Bibliography, selected

Books

• 2008: Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits
• 2016: A Secret Vice (co-editor with Andrew Higgins)
• 2019: Sub-creating Arda (co-editor with Thomas M. Honegger)
• 2021: Επιδράσεις της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Γραμματείας στο Έργο του Τζ.Ρ.Ρ. Τόλκιν = Echoes of Ancient Greek Literature in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien (co-editor with Dimitrios Kolovos)

Articles

• 2006: Working with English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama
  • (issue 2): "'Come Sing ye Light Fairy Things Tripping so Gay': Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien"
• 2006: Folklore
  • (issue 117): "'Mad Elves' and 'Elusive Beauty': Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology"
• 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
  • Fairyology, Victorian
  • Greece: Reception of Tolkien
• 2007: Tolkien Studies: Volume 6
  • "Tolkien's '"Celtic" type of legends': Merging Traditions"
• 2007: Silver Leaves
  • "A Note on Túrin and Oedipus"
• 2007: Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture
  • "Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture"
• 2008: The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
  • "Material Culture and Materiality in Middle-earth: Tolkien and Archaeology"
• 2008: Mallorn 46:
  • "Teaching and Studying Tolkien"
• 2011: Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy
  • "Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings"
• 2012: Critical Insights: The Fantastic
  • "Tolkien and the Fantasy Tradition",
• 2013: J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City
  • "Wildman of the Woods': Inscribing Tragedy on the Landscape of Middle-earth in The Children of Húrin"
• 2014: Mallorn 55:
  • "Tolkien and Folklore: Sellic Spell and The Lay of Beowulf"
• 2017: The Times Literary Supplement
  • "Inventing a whole language"
  • "Why build new worlds"
• 2017: Death and Immortality in Middle-earth
  • "'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings"
• 2018: Journal of Tolkien Research: Volume 5
  • "Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation"
• 2018: The Conversation
  • "Was Tolkien really racist?"
• 2022: The Conversation
  • "Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption"

Reviews

• 2005: Tolkien Studies: Volume 3:
  • Review of Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth by Marjorie Burns
• 2008: Folklore
  • Review of Ents, Elves, and Eriador by Matthew Dickerson and Jonathan Evans
• 2022: Journal of Tolkien Research Vol. 15, Issue 1
  • Review of Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth by Robert Stuart

Interviews

• 2012: Interview with Dr. Dimitra Fimi on lecturing online Tolkien courses on Tolkien Library
• 2019: Episode 17 of TolkCast

Talks/Lectures

• 2019: Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes: a thoroughly vulpine talk in which there may be singing! at Tolkien 2019
• 2023: "I hold the key": J. R. R. Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences at the University of Birmingham

Other appearances

• 2009: Clash of the Gods
  • Tolkien's Monsters
• 2014: Beowulf Launch Party
• 2014: BBC - iWonder
  • How was The Lord of The Rings incluenced by World War One?
• 2014: BBC - iWonder
  • Why do the Elves in The Hobbit sound Welsh?
• 2016: BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4
  • Tolkien: The Lost Recordings
• 2020: BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4
  • Our Sacred Story

Awards

• 2010: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits
• 2017:Tolkien Society Award: Best Book, A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (co-editor with Andrew Higgins)
• 2018: Tolkien Society Award: Best Article, "Tears are the very wine of blessedness": joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings
• 2019: Tolkien Society Award: Best Article, Was Tolkien really racist?
• 2019: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for General Myth and Fantasy Studies, Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology
• 2021: Tolkien Society Award: Outstanding Contribution
• 2025: Tolkien Society Award: Best Article, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”, J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings" (with Andoni Cossio)

External links

• Official website
• Dimitra Fimi at the University of Glasgow