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9 de jun. de 2022 · When Germanic dragons aren’t flying, they lie on their gold. The Old English poem Maxims II puts it concisely: ‘dragon must be in mound, old, proud of treasures,’ and that’s what the Beowulf dragon was doing until disturbed and robbed. The connection with mounds and treasures is unsettling, because both are closely associated with the dead.
29 de jul. de 2019 · Just 20 minutes after the release of the Amazon trailer for the creative team of the Lord of the Rings series, we had the opportunity at Tolkien Thing to interview Tom Shippey, our Guest of Honour, about the trailer and the project exclusively. He is one of the 20 names presented in the video and had not yet seen the video himself.
15 de abr. de 2020 · Shippey conversation starts at 16 minutes in. Fans hopes & concerns were calmed in 2019 when Amazon released a video that includes Tom Shippey in the creative team behind its billion-dollar LOTR series. Out of all the extremely talented people involved, Shippey brought a sense of authority and respect for Tolkien alongside artist John Howe.
Prof. Tom Shippey, himself a medievalist and a philologist, author of The Road to Middle-earth and J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, defines comparative philology and explains its importance for J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary works.
Tom Shippey. Born. September 09, 1943. Genre. History, Nonfiction. edit data. Tom Shippey is Professor Emeritus of English at Saint Louis University. Publishes as T.A. Shippey and Tom Shippey. Tom Shippey is Professor Emeritus of English at Saint Louis University.
The Road to Middle-Earth: How J. R. R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology is a scholarly study of the Middle-earth works of J. R. R. Tolkien written by Tom Shippey and first published in 1982. The book discusses Tolkien's philology, and then examines in turn the origins of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and his minor works.
Shippey and Bourne conclude with a few miscellaneous notes on possible war-related inspirations in Tolkien’s fiction, such as the cries of the Nazgul from airplane sirens (19), and with a tribute to Tolkien’s creation of a modern form of heroism. [Our main quarrel with this is the careless use of “by 1916”. No, “by October 1916”.
