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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Alan Shippey is a British medievalist, a retired scholar of Middle and Old English literature as well as of modern fantasy and science fiction. He is considered one of the world's leading academic experts on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien about whom he has written several books and many scholarly papers. His book The Road to Middle-Earth has been called "the single best thing written on Tolkien".
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- The Road to Middle-Earth (1982) (194)
- J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (2000) (87)
- Poems of wisdom and learning in Old English (1976) (63)
- Wealth and Wisdom in King Alfred's Preface to the Old EnglishPastoral Care (1979) (44)
- Old English Verse (1972) (42)
- Allegory, Myth, and Symbol (1981) (42)
- A Store of Common Sense: Gnomic Theme and Style in Old Icelandic and Old English Wisdom Poetry@@@Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature. Vol. IV: Old English Prose of Secular Learning (1993) (33)
- Fiction 2000 : cyberpunk and the future of narrative (1993) (31)
- Beowulf : The Critical Heritage (1998) (26)
- Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien (2007) (25)
- Old English studies in honour of John C. Pope (1974) (23)
- Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity (2008) (23)
- From Anglo-Saxon to early middle English : studies presented to E.G. Stanley (1997) (22)
- Essential Articles for the Study of Old English Poetry (1968) (21)
- Homilies of AElfric: A Supplementary Collection. Volume I (1969) (18)
- Boar and Badger: An Old English Heroic Antithesis (1985) (16)
- The Good Kipling: Studies in the Short Story@@@Une OEuvre Anglo-Indienne et ses Visages Francais: Problemes poses par la traduction des 'Plain Tales from the Hills' de Rudyard Kipling (1973) (15)
- Fiction and the Reading Public in India (1969) (14)
- Medievalism in the Modern World Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (1998) (14)
- Hard Reading: The Challenges of Science Fiction (2007) (13)
- The shadow-walkers : Jacob Grimm's mythology of the monstrous (2005) (12)
- Listening to the Nightingale (1970) (11)
- Light-elves, Dark-elves, and Others: Tolkien's Elvish Problem (2004) (10)
- The Magic Art and the Evolution of Words: Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Trilogy (1977) (10)
- Literary Appropriations of the Anglo-Saxons from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Century: The undeveloped image: Anglo-Saxon in popular consciousness from Turner to Tolkien (2000) (9)
- THE FAIRY-TALE STRUCTURE OF “BEOWULF” (1969) (9)
- The Merov(ich)ingian Again: damnatio memoriae and the usus scholarum (2005) (9)
- 'The Death-Song of Ragnar Lodbrog': A Study in Sensibilities (1998) (7)
- Hard Reading: Learning from Science Fiction (2016) (7)
- Tolkien as a Post-War Writer (1996) (7)
- The Uses of Chivalry: "Erec" and "Gawain" (1971) (6)
- Literary Landscapes and the Idea of England, 700-1400 (review) (2009) (6)
- Fictional Space: Essays on Contemporary Science Fiction (1991) (6)
- Beowulf for the big-voiced Scullions (1999) (6)
- "Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems (2011) (6)
- ‘Grim Wordplay’: Folly and Wisdom in Anglo-Saxon Humor (2012) (5)
- Fuqua's King Arthur: More Myth-making in America (2007) (4)
- The cold war in science fiction, 1940-1960 (2016) (4)
- Appropriating the Middle Ages scholarship, politics, fraud (2001) (4)
- Writing into the Gap: Tolkien’s Reconstruction of the Legends of Sigurd and Gudrún (2013) (4)
- Film and fiction : reviewing the Middle Ages (2003) (3)
- THE CASE OF BEOWULF (2008) (3)
- Medievalisms and Why They Matter (2012) (3)
- The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992) (3)
- From Page to Screen: J. R. R. Tolkien and Jackson (2003) (3)
- The Tale of Gamelyn: Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre (2014) (3)
- Tolkien and the Gawain -poet (1996) (3)
- Magill's Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature (1996) (3)
- Laughing Shall I Die: Lives and Deaths of the Great Vikings (2018) (3)
- Historical Fiction and the Post‐Imperial Arthur (2009) (3)
- The Roots of Tolkien's Middle Earth (review) (2007) (3)
- Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R.D. Fulk (2016) (3)
- From Atlanta to the sea (2005) (2)
- Starship Troopers, Galactic Heroes, Mercenary Princes: the Military and its Discontents in Science Fiction (2000) (2)
- Down in the forest (1994) (2)
- Poets and prophets : essays in medieval studies (1990) (2)
- The plot unravels (2002) (2)
- Speech and the Unspoken in Hamoismál (1995) (2)
- The Oxford book of fantasy stories (1994) (2)
- Fiction and the Future (1993) (2)
- Tolkien as Editor (2014) (2)
- Studies in Medievalism XVII: Medievalisms and Why They Matter (2009) (1)
- Kingsley Amis’s Science Fiction and the Problems of Genre (2016) (1)
- Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval World edited by Elizabeth Morrison, with Larisa Grollemond (2019) (1)
- Grim up North (2005) (1)
- Correspondences : medievalism in scholarship and the arts (2005) (1)
- The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price (2020) (1)
- Texts, relics and clever forgeries (2002) (1)
- Science Fiction and the Idea of History (2016) (1)
- The traps of time and space (1977) (1)
- Sense and Sensibility@@@Pride and Prejudice@@@Mansfield Park (1974) (1)
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (review) (2010) (1)
- Not worn lightly (2004) (1)
- Roots and Branches (2007) (1)
- Klaeber's Beowulf Eighty Years On: A Triumph for a Triumvirate (2009) (1)
- We're still at it (2004) (1)
- The Ransom Trilogy (2010) (1)
- Tolkien, medievalism, and the philological tradition (2007) (1)
- The Fall of America in Science Fiction (2016) (1)
- Medievalism in the Modern World: Introductory Perspectives (1998) (1)
- Beowulf and the North before the Vikings (2022) (1)
- Full of Surprises (2013) (1)
- Introduction: Language Corruption, and Rocking the Boat (2016) (0)
- How friendly was the Big Giant (1994) (0)
- Franciscus Junius Reads Chaucer : but Why? and How? (2001) (0)
- Juchen Knoop (2007) (0)
- Introduction: Coming Out of the Science Fiction Closet (2016) (0)
- Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400-1070 by Robin Fleming (2011) (0)
- British Battles 493–937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh (2022) (0)
- The Solomon Complex: Reading Wisdom in Old English Poetry.Elaine Tuttle Hansen (1991) (0)
- How to Read "The Silmarrillion" (2002) (0)
- Macho man's nightmare (1999) (0)
- King Arthur: The Making of the Legend by Nicholas Higham (2018) (0)
- In a magic circle (1993) (0)
- Pagan Britain by Ronald Hutton; The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria by Max Adams (2014) (0)
- Literary Gatekeepers and the Fabril Tradition (2016) (0)
- Suld he grynd corn (2006) (0)
- III Old English Literature (1981) (0)
- Poesía en inglés antiguo: prospectos de historia literaria (2005) (0)
- "The Lord of the Rings" as a Classic (2002) (0)
- Grimm's Law (2003) (0)
- Introduction: A Glimpse of Structuralist Possibility (2016) (0)
- Introduction: Getting to Grips with the Issue of Cultures … (2016) (0)
- Introduction: Saying (When Necessary) the Lamentable Word (2016) (0)
- OTIA IMPERIALIA (Book) (2003) (0)
- Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church by Richard Firth Green (2016) (0)
- The Danish connection (1999) (0)
- Introduction: SF Authors Really Mean what they Say (2016) (0)
- Cultural Engineering: A Theme in Science Fiction (2016) (0)
- The Cultural World in 'Beowulf' (1998) (0)
- Not too old (1994) (0)
- English or Danish (1993) (0)
- Borrowing and Independence in Kipling's "The Story of Muhammad Din" (1972) (0)
- Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination ed. by David Clark and Nicholas Perkins (review) (2013) (0)
- Introduction: A First Encounter with Politics (2016) (0)
- Heirs of Lönnrot: From Longfellow to Tolkien (2019) (0)
- An enchanted front (2004) (0)
- The History of The Hobbit (review) (2008) (0)
- Illustrating Camelot. By Barbara Tepa Lupack, with Alan Lupack. (2009) (0)
- Neal Stephenson's Anathem (2022) (0)
- Introduction: Serious Issues, Serious Traumas, Emotional Depth (2016) (0)
- “People are Plastic”: Jack Vance and the Dilemma of Cultural Relativism (2016) (0)
- Introduction: Rejecting Gesture Politics (2016) (0)
- Learning to Read Science Fiction (2016) (0)
- Some day my prince will relocate (2005) (0)
- King shall hold kingdom (2017) (0)
- A History of Old English Literature (Book) (2003) (0)
- Variations on Newspeak: The Open Question of Nineteen Eighty-Four (2016) (0)
- Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams (2018) (0)
- STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER (2009) (0)
- 'Why Is Your Axe Bloody?' : A Reading of 'Njal's Saga' by William Ian Miller (2015) (0)
- A better bogus (1998) (0)
- Review: Science Fiction, Social Conflict and War, Science Fiction Roots and Branches: Contemporary Critical Approaches (1993) (0)
- Langland, the scribes and the editors (1997) (0)
- Old English Literature (1977) (0)
- Illustrating Camelot (review) (2009) (0)
- The Lewis Diaries: C. S. Lewis and the English Faculty in the 1920s (2015) (0)
- A Kipling Anthology@@@The Art of Rudyard Kipling@@@Some Aspects of Kipling's Verse@@@Rudyard Kipling, Realist and Fabulist (1969) (0)
- The Golden Bough and the Incorporations of Magic in Science Fiction (2016) (0)
- Justice Steven and Kerby-Fulton Kathryn, eds. Written Work: Langland, Labor, and Authorship. (The Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press. 1997. Pp. ix, 347. $45.00. ISBN 0-8122-3396-4. (1998) (0)
- Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata by Mercedes Salvador-Bello (review) (2018) (0)
- Deep Roots in a Time of Frost (2014) by Patrick Curry (2014) (0)
- Vikings edited by Gareth Williams, Peter Pentz and Matthias Wernhoff; The Northmen's Fury by Philip Parker (2014) (0)
- Direct Speech in Beowulf and other Old English Narrative Poems by Elise Louviot (review) (2018) (0)
- Bernhard Konrad Aegidius ten Brink 1877 (2005) (0)
- Tolkien the Medievalist, ed. Jane Chance, London and New York 2003 (2003) (0)
- Introduction: A Revealing Failure by the Critics (2016) (0)
- Introduction: Why Politicians, and Producers, Should Read Science Fiction (2016) (0)
- Inside the screen (1993) (0)
- The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise (review) (2011) (0)
- Leofric of Exeter: Four Essays in Commemoration of the Foundation of Exeter Cathedral Library (1974) (0)
- Introduction: Getting Serious with the Fans (2016) (0)
- Poets and Prophets: Essays in Medieval Studies by G. T. Shepherd (1992) (0)
- The Hawk and the Wolf: Book One, the Matter of Britain (review) (2009) (0)
- Andrew Wawn. The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Rochester: Boydell and Brewer. 2000. Pp. xiii, 434. $90.00. ISBN 0-85991-575-1. (2001) (0)
- Introduction: Getting Away from the Facilior Lectio (2016) (0)
- The naked blonde and the helicopter (2003) (0)
- Introduction: Just Before the Disaster (2016) (0)
- Semiotic Ghosts and Ghostlinesses in the Work of Bruce Sterling (2016) (0)
- Introduction: … And Not Fudging the Issue! (2016) (0)
- The Real Lives of Roman Britain by Guy de la Bédoyère (2015) (0)
- Matilda: Queen of the Conqueror by Tracy Borman (2011) (0)
- The Critique of America in Contemporary Science Fiction (2016) (0)
- Alternate Historians: Newt, Kingers, Harry and Me (2016) (0)
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