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28 de abr. de 2024 · Tom Shippey. Positions. Professor Emeritus, Saint Louis University. Visiting lecturer, Signum University. I am a professor emeritus, but retain my interest in medieval studies, as also in fantasy and science fiction. I review the latter for The Wall Street Journal, and continue to publish regularly on the former. On the web.
26 de abr. de 2024 · 26 abril, 2024. Distópolis. Minotauro publicará en julio el ensayo J.R.R. TOLKIEN, AUTOR DEL SIGLO de T.A. Shippey, el estudio crítico definitivo de las mejores obras del maestro de la fantasía épica. Se trata de la edición en español de la obra J.R.R. TOLKIEN: AUTHOR OF THE CENTURY, publicado originalmente en el año 2000.
Author of the century by Tom Shippey or JRR Tolkien a Biography by Humphrey Carter? (These are both on Audible so I want to choose one.
Hace 2 días · According to Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey in The Road to Middle-Earth, two thematic points from Macbeth inspired The Lord of the Rings.The first involves the march of the Ents, giant tree-like ...
Hace 5 días · Tolkien is not simply skimming historical sources for effect: the juxtaposition of old and new styles of expression is seen by the Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey as one of the major themes explored in The Hobbit. Maps figure in both saga literature and The Hobbit. Old English literature
3 de may. de 2024 · He derived the Ents from a phrase in another Old English poem, Maxims II, orþanc enta geweorc, "skilful work of giants"; The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey suggests that Tolkien took the name of the tower of Orthanc (orþanc) from the same phrase, reinterpreted as "Orthanc, the Ents' fortress".
25 de abr. de 2024 · One of the few critics to discuss the novel is Tom Shippey in the “The Fall of America in Science Fiction” in his Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction. He mostly concentrates on the peculiar transformation of American sports in the novel. (Incidentally, you can download a free copy of Shippey’s book).
