Thomas Alan Shippey (born 9 September 1943)[1] is a British medievalist, a retired scholar of Middle and Old English literature as well as of modern fantasy and science fiction. He is considered one of the world's leading academic experts[2] on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien about whom he has written several books and many scholarly papers. His book The Road to Middle-Earth has been called "the single best thing written on Tolkien".[3]
Shippey's education and academic career have in several ways retraced those of Tolkien: he attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, became a professional philologist, occupied Tolkien's professorial chair at the University of Leeds, and taught Old English at the University of Oxford to the syllabus that Tolkien had devised.
He has received three Mythopoeic Awards[4][5][6] and a World Fantasy Award.[7] He participated in the creation of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, assisting the dialect coaches. He featured as an expert medievalist in all three of the documentary DVDs that accompany the special extended edition of the trilogy, and later also that of The Hobbit film trilogy.
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Thomas Alan Shippey (born 9 September 1943) is a British medievalist, a retired scholar of Middle and Old English literature as well as of modern fantasy...
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unchecked ambition and pride in their ability to create. Scholars such as TomShippey have commented that these attributes lead to their decline and fall,...
to John Milton's fallen angel in Paradise Lost, again a Satan-figure. TomShippey has written that The Silmarillion maps the Book of Genesis with its creation...
Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1992, p. 194. Shippey 2005, pp. 115–118. Shippey 2005, pp. 267–268. Shippey 2005, p. 116. Shippey, Tom. Tolkien and the West Midlands:...
Mallorn (51): 31–33. Shippey, Tom (2001). J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0261-10401-3. Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The...
19th century, and by J. R. R. Tolkien in the 20th century. The critic TomShippey explains that the name evoked the excitement of the wildness of Europe's...
world for his elvish languages, not the reverse. The Tolkien scholar TomShippey writes that The Silmarillion derived from the linguistic relationship...
of Gil-galad) and the "greatest of elven women". The Tolkien scholar TomShippey has written that Galadriel represented Tolkien's attempt to re-create...
in some modern fantasy works. Tom Bombadil in The Lord of the Rings has been described by Tolkien scholar TomShippey as the genius loci of the Old Forest...
1. Shippey 2005, pp. 118–119. Shippey, Tom (2003). "Foreword". A Tolkien Compass (Second ed.). Open Court. pp. vii–xi. ISBN 0-87548-303-8. Shippey 2005...
written the Prologue. Shippey, Tom (1982). The Road to Middle-Earth. Grafton (HarperCollins). p. 66. ISBN 0261102753. Shippey, Tom (2001). J. R. R. Tolkien:...
troubled history, noting that light represents the Christian Logos. TomShippey links the sundering of the Elves into different groups to the Two Trees...
carrying Aragorn's troops, coming to Gondor's rescue. The Tolkien scholar TomShippey comments that this forms part of a pattern around the use of the Palantír...
sentences, like "We cannot use the Ruling Ring." The Tolkien scholar TomShippey writes that Tolkien, professionally interested in words and language...
Wagner had created works based on the same sources in Norse mythology. TomShippey and other researchers hold an intermediary position, stating that the...
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