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Tom Shippey
Professor Tom Shippey taught at Oxford, overlapping chronologically with Professor Tolkien and teaching the same syllabus, giving him an intimate familiarity with the poems and the...view moreProfessor Tom Shippey taught at Oxford, overlapping chronologically with Professor Tolkien and teaching the same syllabus, giving him an intimate familiarity with the poems and the languages which formed the main stimulus to Tolkien’s imagination. He subsequently held the same Chair of English Language and Medieval Literature at Leeds University which Tolkien held early in his career, and currently holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University, USA.view less
Books by Tom Shippey
J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5