Bradford Lee Eden

Bradford Lee Eden (born September 1960) is a writer, librarian, and Medieval specialist. Since 2014, he has been editor of The Journal of Tolkien Research, an inclusive online academic journal, and is Dean of Library Services at Valparaiso University, Indiana, USA.

Before 1995, he received degrees in religion and musicology from University of North Texas, University of Kansas, and Indiana State University. At these schools and others he held dozens of positions as librarian or technical services personnel.

In the decades following, Eden began writing essays and reviews and compiling essay publications on J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth. Often, he has written particularly about music in the legendarium, and accordingly provided the section on music in Stuart D. Lee's A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). Eden has given at least five lectures on Tolkien at universities and conferences in the U.S. and Great Britain. In 2017, he presented a paper on Tolkien's "recurring Atlantis dream" and the "construction" of the Second Age at a conference on theorizing the end of the world, held at University of Nantes in Nantes, France.^[1]

Books & articles[]

• “The Music of the Spheres: Relationships between Tolkien’s Silmarillion and Medieval Cosmological and Religious Theory” in Jane Chance's Tolkien the Medievalist (2003)
• "The Real Middle-earth: Exploring the Magic and Mystery of the Middle Ages, J.R.R. Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings", in Tolkien Studies, vol. 2 (2005)
• Six contributions to Michael D. C. Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (2006)
• Compiled Middle-earth Minstrel, featuring his Introduction, and essay "Strains of Elvish Song and Voices: Victorian Medievalism, Music, and Tolkien". This essay was then featured in Music in Middle-earth (Cormarë Series). (2010)
• Compiled The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology: Essays on Revisions and Influences (2014)
• “Tolkien and Music" in Stuart D. Lee's A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien (2014)
• "Michael H.R. Tolkien (1920-84): a research travelogue" in Volume 2.1. of The Journal of Tolkien Research (2015)
• “Tolkien and Buddhist influences: thoughts and perspectives" in Cosmos and Logos Journal (Summer 2015)
• "Sub-creation by any Other Name: The Artist and God in the Early Twentieth Century" in Sub-creating Arda (2018)
• "Music, Time, and Light in the Works of J. R. R. Tolkien and Verlyn Flieger: A Reflection" in A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger (2018)
• “Tolkien’s vision of the end of Middle-earth: myth and faith in the construction of Tolkien’s mythology” in Cambridge Scholars Publishing's A universal imagination of the end of the world?, Volume I (2018)
• “’The scholar as minstrel’: word-music and sound-words in Tolkien’s ‘new works’” in Music in Tolkien's works and beyond (Cormarë Series No. 39 - 2018)

External links[]

• Articles at ResearchGate.net
• CV at Academia.edu

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