Dimitra Fimi (born 2 June 1978) is a Greek academic and writer and since 2023 Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow.[1][2] Her research includes that of the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and children's fantasy literature.
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DimitraFimi (born 2 June 1978) is a Greek academic and writer and since 2023 Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the University of Glasgow...
creates and covets the magical jewels, the Silmarils. Others including DimitraFimi have linked the Noldor to the mythical Irish warriors and sorcerers,...
times, imbued with racist values." The folklorist and Tolkien scholar DimitraFimi examines Tolkien's use of and attitudes to race in her 2009 book Tolkien...
nearer to the vision of George Orwell's 1984 than escapist fantasy. DimitraFimi, on the other hand, comments that the setting is the whole of Northwestern...
concerning Tolkien and constructed languages. This version was edited by DimitraFimi and Andrew Higgins, receiving largely positive reviews from both Tolkien...
on the Western Front". The New York Times. Retrieved April 20, 2024. Fimi, Dimitra (November 21, 2017). "'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful...
both Gondor and Rome experienced centuries of "decadence and decline". DimitraFimi, a scholar of fantasy and children's literature, draws a parallel between...
practical terms the ship would surely, Shippey writes, have been looted. DimitraFimi notes that Beowulf (lines 26–52) describes Scyld's funeral ship sailing...
him to safety in Valinor, away from Middle-earth. The Tolkien scholar DimitraFimi comments that the procession of Elves in the scene "Arwen's vision" in...
ISBN 978-0261102750. Fimi, Dimitra (March 2009). "Hobbit Songs and Rhymes: Tolkien and the Folklore of Middle-earth". DimitraFimi. Retrieved 7 September...
Verlyn Flieger, Douglas A. Anderson, John Garth, Michael D. C. Drout, and DimitraFimi. The Germanic philology program is also robust and growing. Signum's...
ISBN 978-0-415-86511-1. Fimi, Dimitra (2010) [2008]. Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-230-27284-2. Fimi, Dimitra (2011)...
William Morris on The Hobbit offers "rare insights". The folklorist DimitraFimi, in Tolkien Studies, writes that the book is mainly a collection of revised...
inspired by the English Midlands where Tolkien lived. The folklorist DimitraFimi, also in Picturing Tolkien, comments that "ethereal music" accompanies...
background setting for its fictional speakers has been described as unique. DimitraFimi, a Tolkien scholar, argues that Tolkien's invention of Qenya started...
spheres"—served as bases for this telling of creation. Scholars such as DimitraFimi have documented the influence of Celtic mythology in the exile of the...
2010 – Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by DimitraFimi 2011 – Planet Narnia by Michael Ward 2012 – Tolkien and Wales by Carl...
waged only on the moral plane". Tolkien scholars including Shippey and DimitraFimi have stated that the hobbits are misfits in Middle-earth's heroic cultures...
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