J. R. R. Tolkien (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: T. A. Shippey
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Literary criticism and literary biography
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Novelists, Literary criticism
Tom Shippey knows J. R. R. Tolkien as well as any critic. He attended the same preparatory school as Tolkien (King Edward’s in Birmingham, England), he was Tolkien’s successor when that writer retired from Oxford University, and in 1979 he succeeded to the Chair of English Language and Medieval Literature at Leeds University which Tolkien had held from 1920 to 1925. In 1982, Shippey wrote one of the most probing analyses of Tolkien’s work, The Road to Middle-Earth (revised in 1992), sympathetic in part because Shippey shares not only the older writer’s interest in Old and...
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