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4 unusual facts about Tom Shippey


Anke Eißmann

Beowulf and the Dragon, Walking Tree Publishers (2009), ISBN 978-3-905703-17-7 (the dragon episode of Beowulf, Old English text with the translation by John Porter, foreword by Tom Shippey)

Carcharoth

Tom Shippey, in The Road to Middle-earth (pp. 193–194) says that the hunting of the great wolf recalls the chase of the boar Twrch Trwyth in the Welsh Mabinogion, while the motif of 'the hand in the wolf's mouth' is one of the most famous parts of the Prose Edda, told of Fenris Wolf and the god Týr; while Huan recalls several faithful hounds of legend, Garm, Gelert, Cafall.

TheOneRing.net

The foreword by Tom Shippey, well-known Tolkien scholar and author of The Road to Middle-earth and J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, says: "The Internet, the experience of continually answering questions and receiving comments ... give the organizers of TheOneRing.net a perspective which is uniquely broad, and uniquely full of surprises, some of which would have pleased Tolkien very much, but which he could not have expected."

Tom Shippey

Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien (Zurich and Berne: Walking Tree Publishers, Cormarë Series 11, 2007, ISBN 978-3-905703-05-4)



see also

Leslie J. Workman

William Calin: "Leslie Workman: A Speech of Thanks," in: Richard Utz and Tom Shippey (eds.): Medievalism in the Modern World.