Verlyn Flieger (born 1933) is an author, editor, and Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she taught courses in comparative mythology, medieval literature, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. She is well known as a Tolkien scholar, especially for her books Splintered Light and A Question of Time. She has won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award four times for her work on Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.
VerlynFlieger (born 1933) is an author, editor, and Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, where...
is an 1983 book of literary criticism by the leading Tolkien scholar VerlynFlieger, in which she argues that light is a central theme of Tolkien's Middle-earth...
characteristics, while Morgoth gets his destructiveness, malevolence, and deceit. VerlynFlieger writes that the central temptation is the desire to possess, something...
several times during his journey to Mount Doom. The Tolkien scholar VerlynFlieger describes the Phial as a splinter of the created light, deriving from...
languages, Quenya and Sindarin, of the divided Elves. The Tolkien scholar VerlynFlieger states that Tolkien used the Indo-European type of proto-language as...
knowledge of good and evil as in the Genesis story of Garden of Eden. VerlynFlieger analyzes The Silmarillion as a story of splintering of the created light...
interpretations such as that Alf is a figure of Christ. The American scholar VerlynFlieger sees it instead as a story of Faërie in its own right. J. R. R. Tolkien...
Kalevala's central character, the demigod Väinämöinen. The Tolkien scholar VerlynFlieger writes that if there was an opposite to Sauron in The Lord of the Rings...
scheme of English teaching, namely Tolkien's own subject, philology. VerlynFlieger doubted the connection, writing that the Birch played a significant...
Withywindle in the centre of the forest, controlling most of it. The scholar VerlynFlieger has observed that the hostility of the Old Forest and of Old Man Willow...
and Balor "ruled the dead from a tower of glass". The Tolkien scholar VerlynFlieger writes that if there was an opposite to Sauron in The Lord of the Rings...
Schakel 1998 – A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by VerlynFlieger 1999 – C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper 2000 – Roverandom...
has been traced to the medieval Dry Tree, a symbol of resurrection. VerlynFlieger has described the progressive splintering of the light of the Two Trees...
Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by VerlynFlieger and Carl F. Hostetter, 95-104. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. Hostetter...
the 21st century. From 1982, Tolkien scholars such as Tom Shippey and VerlynFlieger began to roll back the hostility, defending Tolkien, rebutting the critics'...
himself, as he struggles against the controlling power of the Ring. VerlynFlieger, a scholar of literature and of Tolkien's works, summarizes Frodo's...
the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM". VerlynFlieger wrote that Elias Lönnrot intentionally created the Kalevala as a mythology...
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