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Verlyn Flieger on J.R.R. Tolkien

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Verlyn Flieger is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland. Among other things she is co-editor of the annual scholarly journal Tolkien Studies.

Books (as Author)
- Interrupted Music. The Making of Tolkien's Mythology, Kent: Kent State University Press, 2005 [paperback, 978-0-87338-824-5].
- A Question of Time. J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie, Kent: Kent State University Press, 1997 [hardback, 978-0-87338-574-9], 2001 [paperback, 978-0-87338-699-9].
- Splintered Light. Logos and Language in Tolkien's World, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983 [paperback, 978-0-8028-1955-0], Kent: Kent State University Press, 2002 [revised edition, paperback, 978-0-87338-744-6].
- Medieval Epic and Romance Motifs in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings [Ph.D. Thesis], Catholic University of America, 1977.
Books (as Editor)
- Tolkien On Fairy-stories, by J.R.R. Tolkien, eds. Verlyn Flieger and Douglas A. Anderson, London: HarperCollins, 2007 [hardback, 978-0-00-724466-9].
- Smith of Wootton Major [Expanded Edition], by J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Verlyn Flieger, London: HarperCollins, 2005 [hardback, 978-0-00-720247-8].
- Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, eds. Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000.
Journals (as Editor)
- Tolkien Studies, eds. Douglas A. Anderson, Michael D.C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger, Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2004 - ongoing.
Selected Essays
- “The Music and the Task. Fate and Free Will in Middle-earth”. Tolkien Studies 6 (2009): 151–181.
- “Gilson, Smith, and Baggins”, in: Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Sources of Inspiration, eds. Stratford Caldecott and Thomas Honegger, Zürich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2008, 85-95.
- “When is a Fairy Story a Faërie Story?”, in: Myth and Magic. Art According to the Inklings, eds. Eduardo Segura and Thomas Honegger, Zürich: Walking Tree Publishers, 2007.
- ‘Arthurian Romance’, ‘Barfield, Owen (1898–1997)’, ‘Faerie’, ‘Frame Narrative’, ‘Light’, ‘Lost Road, The’, ‘Memory’, ‘Old Norse Translations’, ‘Poems by Tolkien: The Hobbit’, ‘Poems by Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings’, ‘Smith of Wootton Major’, ‘Time’, ‘Time Travel’, in: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia. Scholarship and Critical Assessment, ed. Michael D.C. Drout, New York und London: Routledge, 2007, 34-35, 50-51, 183-185, 216-218, 362-363, 392-394, 413-414, 479, 520-522, 522-532, 618-619, 647-650, 650-651.
- “The Curious Incident of the Dream at the Barrow. Memory and Reincarnation in Middle-earth”. Tolkien Studies 4 (2007): 99-112.
- “Do the Atlantis story and abandon Eriol-Saga”. Tolkien Studies 1 (2004): 43–68.
- “‘There would always be a fairy-tale’: J.R.R. Tolkien and the folklore controversy”, in: Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. Jane Chance, New York: Routledge, 2003, 26–35.
- “Tolkien's Wild Men. From Medieval to Modern”, in: Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. Jane Chance, New York: Routledge, 2003, 95–105.
- “Allegory versus Bounce: Tolkien's Smith of Wootton Major”, together with Tom A. Shippey. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 46, vol.12 no.2 (2001): 186–200.
- “Taking the Part of Trees: Eco-Conflict in Middle-earth”, in: J.R.R. Tolkien and His Literary Resonances, eds. George Clark and Daniel Timmons, Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000, 147-158.
- “J.R.R. Tolkien and the Matter of Britain”. Mythlore 87, vol.23 no.1 (2000): 47-59.
- “The Footsteps of Ælfwine”, in: Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, eds. Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2000, 183-198.
- “Fantasy and Reality. J.R.R. Tolkien's World and the Fairy-story Essay”. Mythlore 22 (1999): 4-13.
- “Who's Got the Goddess?”. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts 33, vol.9 no.1 (1998): 3–14.
- “Pitfalls in Faërie”. Mythos Journal (1995). Reprinted in: Saga. Best New Writings on Mythology 1, hg J. Young. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1996, 157-171. Repronted in slightly other form in: A Question of Time (1997).
- “Tolkien's Experiment with Time: The Lost Road, The Notion Club Papers and J.W.Dunne”, in: Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, eds. Patricia Reynolds and Glen H. GoodKnight, Milton Keynes: The Tolkien Society, Altadena, CA: The Mythopoeic Society, 1995, 39-44.
- “The Green Man, the Green Knight, and Treebeard: Scholarship and Invention in Tolkien's Fiction”, in: Scholarship and Fantasy. Proceedings of The Tolkien Phenomenon, ed. K.J. Batterbee. Turku: University of Turku, 1993, 95-98.
- “Time and Dream in The Lost Road and The Lord of the Rings”, together with Raimund Kern. Inklings. Jahrbuch für Literatur und Ästhetik 10 (1992): 111-133.
- “Naming the Unnameable: The Neoplatonic ‘One’ in Tolkien's Silmarillion”, in: Diakonia. Studies in Honor of Robert T. Meyer, eds. Thomas Halton and Joseph P. Williman, Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1986, 127-132.
- “Frodo and Aragorn. The Concept of the Hero”, in: Understanding The Lord of the Rings, eds. Neil D. Isaacs and Rose A. Zimbardo, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1981, 40-62 [Reprint: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004, 122-145].

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