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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.
Thomas Alan Shippey (Calcuta, 9 de septiembre de 1943) es un estudioso británico de la literatura medieval, incluida la Inglaterra anglosajona, y de los géneros de la fantasía y la ciencia ficción modernas, especialmente en la obra de J. R. R. Tolkien, sobre quien ha escrito varios trabajos académicos.
Tom Shippey is a renowned scholar of Tolkien, medieval studies, and fantasy and science fiction. He has taught at Oxford, Harvard, and other universities, and published many books and reviews on these topics.
Hace 3 días · Thomas Alan Shippey, Ph.D. ( 9 September, 1943) is one of the most well known scholars on J.R.R. Tolkien, as well as fantasy and science fiction in general. He describes himself as a "Tolkien polemicist".
Tom Shippey, autor de J.R.R. Tolkien: Autor del siglo, comenta las razones del atractivo de El Señor de los Anillos, una de las obras literarias más queridas del siglo pasado.
Prof. Tom Shippey, himself a medievalist and a philologist, author of The Road to Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, defines comparative philology and explains its importance for J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary works.
Tom Shippey, medievalist and philologist, discusses Tolkien’s approach to reading and interpreting medieval texts, with particular reference to the Middle English texts; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo, and the Old English texts; Ancrene Wisse, Exodus and Finn and Hengest.
