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David Bratman<\/b> is co-editor of the journal <\/span>Tolkien Studies<\/span><\/i>, a member of the Mythopoeic Society and former editor of its <\/span>Mythprint<\/span><\/i> magazine.\u00a0 He writes extensively about Tolkien, fantasy and science fiction.<\/span><\/p>\n Leo Carruthers<\/b> is Emeritus Professor of English Medieval Studies at the University of Paris.\u00a0 He has written many works on medieval literature, including <\/span>Beowulf<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Everyman,<\/span><\/i> and edited the essay collection, <\/span>Tolkien et le Moyen \u00c2ge<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Patrick Curry <\/b>writes on a wide variety of topics, including metaphysics, ecological ethics, divination and spirituality.\u00a0 On Tolkien, his works include <\/span>Defending Middle-earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Deep Roots in a Time of Frost: Essays on Tolkien<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Nadia Drici <\/b>holds a PhD (Aix-en-Provence, France) in comparative literature. A specialist in magical realism and postcolonial literature, she is also a researcher in the anthropology of beliefs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Vincent Ferr\u00e9<\/b>\u00a0is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Paris, a writer and translator.\u00a0 He has published and lectured widely on Tolkien.\u00a0 His works include\u00a0<\/span>Tolkien: sur les rivages de la Terre du milieu<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>Lire J R R Tolkien<\/i>.\u00a0 He co-curated the Biblioth\u00e8que nationale\u2019s<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Tolkien: Voyage en Terre du Milieu<\/i>\u00a0exhibition held in 2019\/2020 and co-edited its catalogue<\/span>; and supervised all translations appearing on the original version of this website<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Verlyn Flieger<\/b> is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and a specialist in comparative mythology.\u00a0 She has edited many Tolkien works, including <\/span>Smith of Wootton Major<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Story of Kullervo<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 Her critical works include <\/span>Splintered Light<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien\u2019s Mythology<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 She is co-editor of the journal <\/span>Tolkien Studies<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n Nicole Guedeney<\/b> is a child psychiatrist practising in Paris and a French specialist on John Bowlby’s Attachment Theory.\u00a0 She wrote <\/span>L\u2019attachement: un lien vital<\/span><\/i> and (with Antoine Gu\u00e9deney) <\/span>L\u2019attachement: approche th\u00e9orique<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Thomas Honegger<\/b> is Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena and an editor with Walking Tree Publishers. He has written and published extensively on Tolkien.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Carl Hostetter<\/b> is a member of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship and editor of <\/span>Vinyar Tengwar<\/span><\/i>, a journal dedicated to Tolkien philology. He edited <\/span>Tolkien\u2019s Legendarium: Essays on \u2018The History of Middle-earth\u2019<\/span><\/i> with Verlyn Flieger in 2000 and <\/span>The Nature of Middle-earth<\/span><\/i> in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n Daniel Lauzon<\/b> is a translator living in Montreal who has worked on Tolkien for many years. He translated into French three volumes of <\/span>The History of Middle-earth <\/span><\/i>as well as the new Bourgois editions of <\/span>The Hobbit <\/span><\/i>(2012) and <\/span>The Lord of the Rings<\/span><\/i> (2014-2016).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Catherine McIlwaine<\/strong> is the Tolkien Archivist at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, where she has worked on the Tolkien archive since 2003.\u00a0 She is the author of\u00a0<\/span>Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth<\/i>\u00a0and curated the Bodleian\u2019s summer exhibition of the same name in 2018.\u00a0 The Tolkien Estate is greatly indebted to Catherine for her professionalism and expertise in curating and editing this website.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Maxime Hortense Pascal<\/b> is a writer and poet. Her literary works include novels and various genres of poetry; she also works with performing artists to bring her writings to the live stage. Among her published works are <\/span>Never<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>L’Invention de la soif<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Point typographique d\u00e9laiss\u00e9<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n John Rateliff<\/b> is a writer, editor, designer of role-playing games and the author of <\/span>The History of \u2019The Hobbit\u2019.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>He is a renowned Tolkien scholar and contributor to Tolkien journals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Christina Scull<\/b> and <\/span>Wayne Hammond<\/b> are esteemed for their extensive work across many Tolkien subjects. They wrote the landmark <\/span>J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator<\/span><\/i> and have prepared many editions of Tolkien\u2019s works, including<\/span> Roverandom<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Farmer Giles of Ham<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\u00bb1_2″ _builder_version=\u00bb4.16″ _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.25.1″ _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb header_4_font=\u00bb|700|||||||\u00bb hover_enabled=\u00bb0″ global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb sticky_enabled=\u00bb0″]<\/p>\n Tom Shippey<\/b> is a specialist in Medieval English Language and Literature and has taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Oxford, Leeds and Saint-Louis, Missouri.\u00a0 He is a Tolkien specialist and the author of <\/span>The Road to Middle-earth<\/span><\/i> (1982) and <\/span>J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century<\/span><\/i> (2000).<\/span><\/p>\n Arden Smith<\/b> holds a PhD in Germanic Linguistics from the University of California at Berkeley.\u00a0 He edits <\/span>Parma Eldalamberon<\/span><\/i>, a Tolkien philological journal, and has published extensively on Tolkien\u2019s invented languages.<\/span><\/p>\n Baillie Tolkien<\/b>\u00a0is a graduate of the University of Manitoba and holds a Masters degree in English from the University of Oxford.\u00a0 She worked as secretary to J.R.R. Tolkien in the 1960s and edited the perennially popular<\/span>\u00a0Father Christmas Letters\u00a0<\/span><\/i>in 1976, and its subsequent editions.<\/span><\/p>\n Priscilla Tolkien<\/b> (1929-2022) was J.R.R. Tolkien’s only daughter.\u00a0 She graduated in English from the University of Oxford and spent much of her professional life in the probation service before becoming a teacher of literature. She is the author, with her brother John, of<\/span> The Tolkien Family Album <\/span><\/i>(1992).<\/span><\/p>\n Christopher Tolkien<\/b> (1924-2020) was one of the first to hear <\/span>The Hobbit<\/span><\/i> and his father’s other \u2018Great Tales\u2019, and he followed the evolution of <\/span>The Lord of the Rings <\/span><\/i>closely while training as an RAF pilot during the Second World War. He was a Fellow and Tutor of Old Norse, Anglo-Saxon and Middle-English at New College, Oxford.\u00a0 His professional career paved the way for his extensive work on his father\u2019s unpublished writings, which he began editing and preparing for publication from 1975 onwards.\u00a0 His many publications include <\/span>The Silmarillion<\/span><\/i> (1977), <\/span>Unfinished Tales<\/span><\/i> (1980), <\/span>The History of Middle-earth <\/span><\/i>(1983-1996) and the three \u2018Great Tales\u2019 <\/span>The Children of H\u00farin <\/span><\/i>(2007), <\/span>Beren and Luthien<\/span><\/i> (2017) and <\/span>The Fall of Gondolin <\/span><\/i>(2018).<\/span><\/p>\n For this website Christopher Tolkien wrote the exclusive prose summary of <\/span>The Legend of Sigurd and Gudr\u00fan<\/span><\/i> and permitted the use of his essay on the making of <\/span>The Silmarillion<\/span><\/i> and his introductions to certain other works, including <\/span>The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>The Fall of Arthur<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n A huge debt is due to Christopher Tolkien for his tireless and irreplaceable work on his father’s papers over the last four decades of his life, and his unique contribution to Tolkien scholarship and studies, as well as to the continuing interest in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien in all corners of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n Translators<\/b>.\u00a0 Translations of items on this website from English to French were made by Daniel Lauzon, Christine Laferri\u00e8re, Delphine Martin, Vincent Ferr\u00e9, Adam Tolkien and Rachel Tolkien.\u00a0 Translations into Spanish were made by Vanessa Richard and Martin Simonson.\u00a0 The Elvish translations were made by Arden Smith, Carl Hostetter and Patrick Wynne.<\/span><\/p>\n Publishers<\/b>.\u00a0 The entirety of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s works, as well as many critical studies and annotated editions, are published by HarperCollins Publishers in London. They in turn work with many publishers around the world who, together with many expert translators, have ensured that the interest in Tolkien\u2019s works is a truly worldwide phenomenon.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=\u00bb4.16″ _module_preset=\u00bbdefault\u00bb background_color=\u00bbRGBA(0,0,0,0)\u00bb custom_padding=\u00bb15px|15px|15px|15px|false|false\u00bb border_width_all=\u00bb1px\u00bb border_color_all=\u00bb#9F8D60″ global_colors_info=\u00bb{}\u00bb]<\/p>\n Adam Tolkien<\/b>.\u00a0 The Tolkien Estate gratefully acknowledges the significant contribution of Adam Tolkien as the creator of, and driving force behind, the original version of its website.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Bratman is co-editor of the journal Tolkien Studies, a member of the Mythopoeic Society and former editor of its Mythprint magazine.\u00a0 He writes extensively about Tolkien, fantasy and science fiction. 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