Verlyn Flieger

Verlyn Flieger
Biographical Information
Born	24 February 1933
Education	Ph.D. from The Catholic University of America
Occupation	Author, Professor

Verlyn Flieger (24 February 1933) 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. She is also a member of the Board of Academic Advisors for Walking Tree Publishers.

Bibliography

Books

• 1983: Splintered Light
• 1997: 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 Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien
• 2015: Smith of Wootton Major (editor, pocket edition)
• 2015: The Story of Kullervo (editor)
• 2016: The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (editor)
• 2017: "There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale": More Essays on 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
• 2013: The Body in Tolkien's Legendarium
  • "The Body in Question: The unhealed wounds of Frodo Baggins"
• 2013: J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City
  • "The Forests and the Trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie"
• 2013: Mythlore 123
  • "How Trees Behave—Or Do They?"
• 2014: The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology
  • "Tolkien’s French Connection"
• 2014: Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey
  • "The Jewels, the Stone, the Ring, and the Making of Meaning"
• 2014: Tolkien and Philosophy
  • "Tolkien and the Philosophy of Language"
• 2018: Pagan Saints in Middle-earth
  • "Foreword"
• 2018: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth
  • "Faërie: Tolkien's Perilous Land"
• 2020: Mallorn 61
  • "Defying and Defining Darkness"
• 2022: The Great Tales Never End
  • "Listening to the Music"

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)
• 2013: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 10 (co-editor)
• 2014: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 11 (co-editor)
• 2015: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 12 (co-editor)
• 2016: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 13 (co-editor)
• 2017: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 14 (co-editor)
• 2018: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 15 (co-editor)
• 2019: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 16 (co-editor)
• 2020: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 17 (co-editor)
• 2021: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 18 (co-editor)
• 2022: Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume 19 Supplement (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
• 2013: Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies, Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien
• 2021: Tolkien Society Award: Best Article, Defying and Defining Darkness in Mallorn 61

External links

• Official website
• Verlyn Flieger at Wikipedia

Talks

• Imaginary Creatures - Real Experience, at TEDxUMD
• Waiting for Earendel, at The Tolkien Society

Interviews

• Episode 31 of The Tolkien Experience Podcast
• Between Light and Dark: An Interview with Verlyn Flieger, episode 90 of The Prancing Pony Podcast