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Tom Shippey

Author of J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

Includes the names: Tom Shippy, Tom Shippey, Tom Shippey, T. A Shippey, Tom A. Shippi, Shippey T. A., T. A. Shippey, A. T. Shippey, Tom A. Shippey, ed. T.A. Shippey ... (see complete list), Thomas Alan Shippey
Also includes: Tom Allen (15), John Holm (1)

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Works by Tom Shippey

J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century 940 copies, 11 reviews
The Road to Middle-earth 694 copies, 10 reviews
The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (Editor) 343 copies, 5 reviews
One King's Way (Author) 244 copies
King and Emperor (Author) 224 copies, 1 review
The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories (Editor) 167 copies, 1 review
Warriors of the Way (Author) 58 copies, 2 reviews
Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien 48 copies, 1 review
Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings 23 copies
Old English verse, 19 copies
The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous 15 copies
Poems of wisdom and learning in Old English 12 copies
Beowulf 10 copies, 1 review
Leaves from the Tree : J.R.R. Tolkien's Shorter Fiction 10 copies

Magill's guide to science fiction and fantasy literature (Editor) 7 copies, 1 review

Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (Liverpool Science Fiction… 6 copies

Studies in Medievalism XI: Appropriating the Middle Ages: Scholarship,… 3 copies

Fictional Space: Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction (Essays and… 2 copies

Speech and the Unspoken in Hamthismal 1 copy

Studies in Medievalism XII: Film and Fiction: Reviewing the Middle Ages 1 copy

J. R. R. Tolkien - pisarz stulecia 1 copy

A modern view of science fiction 1 copy

'He, her, hem' in TLS 5418, 2 Feb 2007 [review of Lynda Mugglestone's… 1 copy

''Beowulf' for the big-voiced Scullions' in TLS 5035, 1 Oct 1999 [review… 1 copy

The Low Road 1 copy

'Ku and querna' in TLS 5534, 24 April 2009 [review of Rolf Bremmer's… 1 copy

A Letter From the Pope (in The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories -… 1 copy

Laughing shall I die : lives and deaths of the great vikings 1 copy

Hitler victorioso 1 copy

Enemy Transmissions [short fiction] 1 copy, 1 review

Tales from the Perilous Realm 1 copy

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Also by Tom Shippey

Tales from the Perilous Realm (Introduction, some editions) 689 copies, 8 reviews
The Science Fiction Encyclopedia (Contributor) 600 copies, 12 reviews
The Hammer and the Cross 356 copies, 2 reviews
A Tolkien Compass (Foreword) 283 copies, 1 review
The QPB Companion to The Lord of the Rings (Contributor) 267 copies, 1 review
Understanding The Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism (Contributor) 170 copies, 3 reviews
Alternate Heroes (What Might Have Been, Vol. 2) (Contributor) 168 copies, 2 reviews
The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (Contributor) 150 copies, 4 reviews
What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (Contributor) 144 copies, 1 review
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (Contributor) 127 copies, 1 review
Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American… (Contributor) 73 copies, 1 review
The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis (Contributor) 54 copies
Tolkien and the Study of His Sources: Critical Essays (Contributor) 44 copies, 10 reviews
Ents, Elves, and Eriador: The Environmental Vision of J.R.R. Tolkien (Afterword) 38 copies

The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E.… (Contributor) 30 copies

A Companion to the Fairy Tale (Contributor) 30 copies

Andromeda 3 (Contributor) 28 copies

J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances: Views of Middle-Earth (Contributor) 26 copies

Destination Unknown (Contributor) 25 copies

Andromeda 2 (Contributor) 21 copies

The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (Contributor, some editions) 17 copies, 1 review

Tolkien e la Filosofia (Contributor) 5 copies

The Hero Recovered: Essays on Medieval Heroism in Honor of George Clark (Contributor) 4 copies

Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature (Volumes 1-5) (Contributor) 4 copies

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Shippey, Thomas Alan

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Calcutta, India

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King Edward's School, Birmingham, England, UK

University of Cambridge (MA ∙ 1968)

University of Cambridge (PhD ∙ 1990)

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university professor

scholar of medieval and old English literature

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St. Louis University, College of Arts and Sciences

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University of Leeds

Studies in Medievalism (editor)

International Society for the Study of Medievalism

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Tolkien Society Honorary Membership

Tolkien Society Gold Badge

IAFA Distinguished Scholarship (1996)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies (1984)

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies (2001)

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