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Paul Nolan Hyde

2024-06-25T19:34:18Z

Jtauber: Paul passed away in 2021. Updated verb tenses.

'''Paul Nolan Hyde''' was a Professor of Linguistics at [[wikipedia:Brigham Young University|Brigham Young University]]. Introduced to [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s works in 1966, Hyde produced many essays on both the [[legendarium]] and the field of expertise of Tolkien, [[Old English|Old]] and [[Middle English]]. Hyde is probably best known for his collumn "Quenti Lambardillion" in ''[[Mythlore]]'' and several contributions to ''[[Vinyar Tengwar]]''.

==External links==
* '''[http://home.comcast.net/~niggle85/ Official website]'''
* [http://mormonlit.lib.byu.edu/lit_author.php?a_id=3160 Bibliography at Mormon Literature & Creative Arts]
* [https://www.sundbergolpinmortuary.com/obituaries/paul-hyde Obituary]

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Dimitra Fimi

2023-08-03T04:20:32Z

Jtauber: Dimitra was promoted to professor

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| image=[[File:Dimitra Fimi (2).jpg|250px]]
| name=Dimitra Fimi
| born=[[2 June]] [[1978]]
| died=
| education=[[Wikipedia:Cardiff University|Cardiff University]]
| occupation=Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature
| location=
| website=[http://www.dimitrafimi.com/ Official website]
}}
'''Dimitra Fimi''' (born [[2 June]] [[1978]]) is Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the [[wikipedia:University of Glasgow|University of Glasgow]]. She teaches and researches on many fantasy authors. She is also co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow. Fimi is currently on the [[Mallorn (journal)| Mallorn]] editorial team.<ref> [https://journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/about/editorialTeam ''Editorial Team''] at journals.tolkiensociety.org (accessed 18 June 2023)</ref>
==Bibliography, selected==
===Books===
* [[2008]]: ''[[Tolkien, Race and Cultural History|Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits]]''
* [[2016]]: ''[[A Secret Vice (book)|A Secret Vice]]'' (co-editor with Andrew Higgins)
* [[2019]]: ''[[Sub-creating Arda]]'' (co-editor with [[Thomas M. Honegger]])
* [[2021]]: ''Επιδράσεις της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Γραμματείας στο Έργο του Τζ.Ρ.Ρ. Τόλκιν = Echoes of Ancient Greek Literature in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien'' (co-editor with Dimitrios Kolovos)

===Articles===
* [[2006]]: ''Working with English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama''
** (issue 2): "[https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/documents/working-with-english/volume-2/fimi-come-sing-ye-light-fairy-things-tripping-so-gay-victorian-fairies-and-the-early-work-of-j.-r.-r.-tolkien.pdf 'Come Sing ye Light Fairy Things Tripping so Gay': Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien]"
* [[2006]]: ''Folklore''
** (issue 117): [http://dimitrafimi.com/teaching/mad-elves-and-elusive-beauty-some-celtic-strands-of-tolkiens-mythology/ "'Mad Elves' and 'Elusive Beauty': Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology"]
* [[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
** Fairyology, Victorian
**Greece: Reception of Tolkien
* [[2007]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 6]]
** "Tolkien's '"Celtic" type of legends': Merging Traditions"
* [[2007]]: ''[[Silver Leaves]]''
**"A Note on Túrin and Oedipus"
* [[2007]]: ''Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture''
** "Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture"
* [[2008]]: ''[[The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference]]''
** "Material Culture and Materiality in Middle-earth: Tolkien and Archaeology"
* [[2008]]: [[Mallorn 46|''Mallorn'' 46]]:
** "Teaching and Studying Tolkien"
* [[2011]]: [[Picturing Tolkien|''Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings ''Film Trilogy'']]
** "Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings''"
* [[2012]]: ''Critical Insights: The Fantastic''
**"Tolkien and the Fantasy Tradition",
* [[2013]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City]]''
**"Wildman of the Woods': Inscribing Tragedy on the Landscape of Middle-earth in ''The Children of Húrin''"
* [[2014]]: [[Mallorn 55|''Mallorn'' 55]]:
** "Tolkien and Folklore: ''[[Sellic Spell]]'' and ''[[The Lay of Beowulf]]''"
* [[2017]]: ''The Times Literary Supplement''
** "[http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/how-to-invent-a-language-tolkien-burgess/ Inventing a whole language]"
** "[https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fantasy-writers-create-new-realities-and-cultures-essay-dimitra-fimi/ Why build new worlds]"
* [[2017]]: ''[[Death and Immortality in Middle-earth]]''
** "'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''"
* [[2018]]: ''[[Journal of Tolkien Research]]''
** "[https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol5/iss1/2/ Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation]"
* [[2018]]: ''The Conversation''
** "[https://theconversation.com/was-tolkien-really-racist-108227 Was Tolkien really racist?]"
* [[2022]]: ''The Conversation''
** "[https://theconversation.com/lord-of-the-rings-debunking-the-backlash-against-non-white-actors-in-amazons-new-adaption-177791 Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption]"

===Reviews===
* [[2005]]: ''[[Tolkien Studies: Volume 3]]'':
** Review of ''[[Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth]]'' by [[Marjorie Burns]]
* [[2008]]: ''Folklore''
** Review of ''[[Ents, Elves, and Eriador]]'' by [[Matthew Dickerson]] and [[Jonathan Evans]]

===Interviews===
* [[2012]]: [http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/1057-interview-dimitra-fimi.php Interview with Dr. Dimitra Fimi on lecturing online Tolkien courses] on [[Tolkien Library]]
* [[2019]]: [https://www.tolkcast.de/episode/017-das-interview-mit-dimitra-fimi-shaun-gunnar Episode 17] of [[TolkCast]]
===Talks/Lectures===
* [[2019]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAAYOnkVnwk&ab_channel=TheTolkienSociety ''Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes: a thoroughly vulpine talk in which there may be singing!''] at [[Tolkien 2019]]
* [[2023]]: ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usDl-qgsPEA&ab_channel=UniversityofBirmingham "I hold the key": J. R. R. Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences]'' at the [[wikipedia: University of Birmingham| University of Birmingham]]

===Other appearances===
*[[2009]]: Clash of the Gods
**''[[Tolkien's Monsters]]''
*[[2014]]: [[Beowulf Launch Party]]
*[[2014]]: BBC - iWonder
**''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zgr9kqt How was The Lord of The Rings incluenced by World War One?]''
*[[2014]]: BBC - iWonder
**''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z2hthyc Why do the Elves in The Hobbit sound Welsh?]''
*[[2016]]: BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4
**''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mvd5z Tolkien: The Lost Recordings]''
*[[2020]]: BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4
**''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p60n Our Sacred Story]''

==Awards==
*[[2010]]: '''[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies]]''', ''[[Tolkien, Race and Cultural History|Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits]]''
*[[2017]]:'''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Book''', ''[[A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages]]'' (co-editor with [[Andrew Higgins]])
*[[2018]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Article''', ''"Tears are the very wine of blessedness": joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings''
*[[2019]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Article''', ''[https://theconversation.com/was-tolkien-really-racist-108227 Was Tolkien really racist?]''
*[[2019]]: '''[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for General Myth and Fantasy Studies]]''', ''Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology''
*[[2021]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Outstanding Contribution'''

==External links==
* '''[http://www.dimitrafimi.com/ Official website]'''
* [https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/dimitrafimi/ Dimitra Fimi] at the [https://www.gla.ac.uk/ University of Glasgow]

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Dimitra Fimi

2023-08-03T04:19:53Z

Jtauber: Dimitra was promoted to professor

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{{author infobox
| image=[[File:Dimitra Fimi (2).jpg|250px]]
| name=Dimitra Fimi
| born=[[2 June]] [[1978]]
| died=
| education=[[Wikipedia:Cardiff University|Cardiff University]]
| occupation=Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature
| location=
| website=[http://www.dimitrafimi.com/ Official website]
}}
'''Dimitra Fimi''' (born [[2 June]] [[1978]]) is Professor of Fantasy and Children's Literature at the [[wikipedia:University of Glasgow|University of Glasgow]]. She teaches and researches on many fantasy authors. She is also co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow. Fimi is currently on the [[Mallorn (journal)| Mallorn]] editorial team.<ref> [https://journals.tolkiensociety.org/mallorn/about/editorialTeam ''Editorial Team''] at journals.tolkiensociety.org (accessed 18 June 2023)</ref>
==Bibliography, selected==
===Books===
* [[2008]]: ''[[Tolkien, Race and Cultural History|Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits]]''
* [[2016]]: ''[[A Secret Vice (book)|A Secret Vice]]'' (co-editor with Andrew Higgins)
* [[2019]]: ''[[Sub-creating Arda]]'' (co-editor with [[Thomas M. Honegger]])
* [[2021]]: ''Επιδράσεις της Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Γραμματείας στο Έργο του Τζ.Ρ.Ρ. Τόλκιν = Echoes of Ancient Greek Literature in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien'' (co-editor with Dimitrios Kolovos)

===Articles===
* [[2006]]: ''Working with English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama''
** (issue 2): "[https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/documents/working-with-english/volume-2/fimi-come-sing-ye-light-fairy-things-tripping-so-gay-victorian-fairies-and-the-early-work-of-j.-r.-r.-tolkien.pdf 'Come Sing ye Light Fairy Things Tripping so Gay': Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien]"
* [[2006]]: ''Folklore''
** (issue 117): [http://dimitrafimi.com/teaching/mad-elves-and-elusive-beauty-some-celtic-strands-of-tolkiens-mythology/ "'Mad Elves' and 'Elusive Beauty': Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology"]
* [[2006]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment]]''
** Fairyology, Victorian
**Greece: Reception of Tolkien
* [[2007]]: [[Tolkien Studies: Volume 4|''Tolkien Studies'': Volume 6]]
** "Tolkien's '"Celtic" type of legends': Merging Traditions"
* [[2007]]: ''[[Silver Leaves]]''
**"A Note on Túrin and Oedipus"
* [[2007]]: ''Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture''
** "Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture"
* [[2008]]: ''[[The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference]]''
** "Material Culture and Materiality in Middle-earth: Tolkien and Archaeology"
* [[2008]]: [[Mallorn 46|''Mallorn'' 46]]:
** "Teaching and Studying Tolkien"
* [[2011]]: [[Picturing Tolkien|''Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's'' The Lord of the Rings ''Film Trilogy'']]
** "Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings''"
* [[2012]]: ''Critical Insights: The Fantastic''
**"Tolkien and the Fantasy Tradition",
* [[2013]]: ''[[J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City]]''
**"Wildman of the Woods': Inscribing Tragedy on the Landscape of Middle-earth in ''The Children of Húrin''"
* [[2014]]: [[Mallorn 55|''Mallorn'' 55]]:
** "Tolkien and Folklore: ''[[Sellic Spell]]'' and ''[[The Lay of Beowulf]]''"
* [[2017]]: ''The Times Literary Supplement''
** "[http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/how-to-invent-a-language-tolkien-burgess/ Inventing a whole language]"
** "[https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/fantasy-writers-create-new-realities-and-cultures-essay-dimitra-fimi/ Why build new worlds]"
* [[2017]]: ''[[Death and Immortality in Middle-earth]]''
** "'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''"
* [[2018]]: ''[[Journal of Tolkien Research]]''
** "[https://scholar.valpo.edu/journaloftolkienresearch/vol5/iss1/2/ Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation]"
* [[2018]]: ''The Conversation''
** "[https://theconversation.com/was-tolkien-really-racist-108227 Was Tolkien really racist?]"
* [[2022]]: ''The Conversation''
** "[https://theconversation.com/lord-of-the-rings-debunking-the-backlash-against-non-white-actors-in-amazons-new-adaption-177791 Lord of the Rings: debunking the backlash against non-white actors in Amazon’s new adaption]"

===Reviews===
* [[2005]]: ''[[Tolkien Studies: Volume 3]]'':
** Review of ''[[Perilous Realms: Celtic and Norse in Tolkien's Middle-earth]]'' by [[Marjorie Burns]]
* [[2008]]: ''Folklore''
** Review of ''[[Ents, Elves, and Eriador]]'' by [[Matthew Dickerson]] and [[Jonathan Evans]]

===Interviews===
* [[2012]]: [http://www.tolkienlibrary.com/press/1057-interview-dimitra-fimi.php Interview with Dr. Dimitra Fimi on lecturing online Tolkien courses] on [[Tolkien Library]]
* [[2019]]: [https://www.tolkcast.de/episode/017-das-interview-mit-dimitra-fimi-shaun-gunnar Episode 17] of [[TolkCast]]
===Talks/Lectures===
* [[2019]]: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAAYOnkVnwk&ab_channel=TheTolkienSociety ''Tolkien, Folklore, and Foxes: a thoroughly vulpine talk in which there may be singing!''] at [[Tolkien 2019]]
* [[2023]]: ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usDl-qgsPEA&ab_channel=UniversityofBirmingham "I hold the key": J. R. R. Tolkien through interviews and reminiscences]'' at the [[wikipedia: University of Birmingham| University of Birmingham]]

===Other appearances===
*[[2009]]: Clash of the Gods
**''[[Tolkien's Monsters]]''
*[[2014]]: [[Beowulf Launch Party]]
*[[2014]]: BBC - iWonder
**''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zgr9kqt How was The Lord of The Rings incluenced by World War One?]''
*[[2014]]: BBC - iWonder
**''[http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/z2hthyc Why do the Elves in The Hobbit sound Welsh?]''
*[[2016]]: BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4
**''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mvd5z Tolkien: The Lost Recordings]''
*[[2020]]: BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4
**''[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000p60n Our Sacred Story]''

==Awards==
*[[2010]]: '''[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies]]''', ''[[Tolkien, Race and Cultural History|Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits]]''
*[[2017]]:'''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Book''', ''[[A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages]]'' (co-editor with [[Andrew Higgins]])
*[[2018]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Article''', ''"Tears are the very wine of blessedness": joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings''
*[[2019]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Article''', ''[https://theconversation.com/was-tolkien-really-racist-108227 Was Tolkien really racist?]''
*[[2019]]: '''[[Mythopoeic Society|Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for General Myth and Fantasy Studies]]''', ''Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology''
*[[2021]]: '''[[The Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Outstanding Contribution'''

==External links==
* '''[http://www.dimitrafimi.com/ Official website]'''
* [https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/staff/dimitrafimi/ Dimitra Fimi] at the [https://www.gla.ac.uk/ University of Glasgow]

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Sara Brown

2023-06-15T19:55:30Z

Jtauber: corrected Mallorn link to journal

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'''Sara Brown''' is a Tolkien scholar and Language & Literature Department Chair at [[Signum University]]. She has a PhD from Salford University with a thesis entitled ''From Abjection to Alchemy in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Legendarium''.

She also co-hosts [[The Tolkien Experience]] and [[The Rings of Power Wrap-up]] podcasts and serves on the editorial board of [[Mallorn (journal)]].

==Awards==
*[[2023]]: '''[[Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Article'''

==External Links==
*[https://signumuniversity.org/people/sara-brown/ Sara Brown] on Signum University Website.

[[Category:British people]]
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Sara Brown

2023-06-15T19:54:06Z

Jtauber: initial page on Sara Brown (Tolkien Scholar and Tolkien Society Award Winner)

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'''Sara Brown''' is a Tolkien scholar and Language & Literature Department Chair at [[Signum University]]. She has a PhD from Salford University with a thesis entitled ''From Abjection to Alchemy in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth Legendarium''.

She also co-hosts [[The Tolkien Experience]] and [[The Rings of Power Wrap-up]] podcasts and serves on the editorial board of [[Mallorn]].

==Awards==
*[[2023]]: '''[[Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Article'''

==External Links==
*[https://signumuniversity.org/people/sara-brown/ Sara Brown] on Signum University Website.

[[Category:British people]]
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Catherine McIlwaine

2023-06-15T19:45:51Z

Jtauber: fixed typo in heading

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'''Catherine McIlwaine''' is the Tolkien archivist at the [[Bodleian Library]].
==Bibliography==
*[[2018]]: [[Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth]]
*[[2018]]: [[Tolkien: Treasures]]
*[[2022]]: [[The Great Tales Never End]] (co-editor)

==Awards==
*[[2019]]: '''[[Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Best Book''', ''[[Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth]]''
*[[2019]]: '''[[Tolkien Society Awards| Tolkien Society Award]]: Outstanding Contribution'''

==External Links==
*[https://uk.linkedin.com/in/catherine-mcilwaine-8a91ab89 Catherine McIlwaine] on LinkedIn
*[https://www.tolkcast.de/episode/127-interview-mit-catherine-mcilwaine 127 Interview mit Catherine McIlwaine] (Episode 127 of [[TolkCast]], a podcast produced by the [[German Tolkien Society]])

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Letter 272

2021-03-27T17:24:33Z

Jtauber: removed incorrect date of Wright's Primer. While his _grammar_ was published in 1910, it is the Primer that is talked about here and all Tolkien says is he obtained the book prior to 1910.

{{letter infobox
| #=272
| to=Zillah Sherring
| date=[[20 July]] [[1965]]
| subject=A piece of old (1910) Gothic language
}}{{letter|272}}
==Summary==
Zillah Sherring had bought a used copy of ''The Fifth Book of Thucydides'' with strange inscriptions written in it by a previous owner. Tolkien's name was one of those on the flyleaf and she wrote to ask him if any had been his work, such as the long one at the back.

Tolkien replied that the book had belonged to him and that the writing on the back page was in Gothic or what he thought Gothic might be. He had bought Joseph Wright's ''[[Wikipedia:Grammar of the Gothic Language|Primer of the Gothic Language]]'' from a school-friend who had mistaken it for a Bible Society product. He had been fascinated by Gothic and the Primer had allowed him to convert words of other Germanic languages into Gothic script. He had often put "gothic" inscriptions in books, sometimes with his Gothicizied name – ''Ruginwaldus Dwalakōneis''.

The inscription that Sherring transcribed and sent to Tolkien had a fault: HVNDAI instead of HVNDA. Including some errors, what Tolkien meant to say in the inscription was:

:''I read the words of these books of Greek history ("year writing") in the sixth month of this year: thousand, nine hundreds, ten, of Our Lord: in order to gain the prize given every year to the boy knowing most about Thucydides, and this I inscribed in my books on the twelfth of the sixth (month) after I had already ? first read through all the words carefully.''

Tolkien mentioned that he had a problem with the vocabulary since he only had short specimens to use. He also said that he had no compunction in writing in his own books, although usually now only notes supposed to be of use.

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