Flieger before 2012
Verlyn Flieger (born February 24, 1933) is a prominent Tolkien-editor, scholar, and writer who professes Medieval literature and comparative mythology in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. With Douglas Anderson and Michael D. C. Drout she founded the journal Tolkien Studies in 2004, and has been on its editorial board since. She is also affiliated with Signum University, founded by Corey Olsen.
Her work in Tolkien scholarship won her the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies three times over three decades, in 1988, 2002, and 2013.
Editions[]
- Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth - edited with Carl Hostetter (collected and then published in 2000)
- J.R.R. Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major "Extended critical edition" (published in 2005)
- J.R.R. Tolkien's On Fairy-stories - co-edited with Douglas Anderson (published in 2008)
- J.R.R. Tolkien's The Story of Kullervo (published in 2015)
- Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review (yearly)
Books & selected articles[]
- Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (1983 - revised in 2002)
- A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie (2001)
- Interrupted Music: The Making Of Tolkien's Mythology (2005)
- Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien (2012)
- There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien (2017)
- "Frodo and Aragorn: The Concept of the Hero" in Rose A. Zimbardo and Neil Isaacs' Understanding The Lord of the Rings (2004)
- "Gilson, Smith, and Baggins", in S. Caldecott and T. Honegger's Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - Sources of Inspiration (2008)
- "Tolkien's French Connection", in Bradford Lee Eden's The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology: Essays on Revisions and Influences (2013)
- "The Forests and the Trees: Sal and Ian in Faërie" in J.R.R. Tolkien: The Forest and the City (2013)
- "Faërie: Tolkien's Perilous Land", an opening essay to Catherine McIlwaine's Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (2018)
Books authored by Verlyn Flieger
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External links[]
- Flieger's official website
Verlyn Flieger at Wikipedia- Signum University profile
- Interview on The Prancing Pony Podcast from July 2018