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		Shippey sets out to show where the critics are wrong (when they bother to explain their dislike) and why they are wrong (when, as in most of the time, they merely sneer, at the works, or at the readership).
		Shippey argues his case in depth, with many references to Tolkien's texts and to the original sources, and to Tolkien's attempts to "fill the blanks" in those original sources.
		Shippey also conjectures this might be one of the reasons the literary establishment is so hostile to the works: in the modernist tradition it is necessary to understand the allusions in order to understand the work -- one has to be a member of their elite to appreciate their literature.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/books/s/tomshppy.htm (685 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Road to Middle-Earth: Books: Tom Shippey,T. A. Shippey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tom Shippey is a profound student of Tolkien with a deep love of middle-earth and a deep understanding of it and its origins.
		Tom Shippey's knowledge of JRR Tolkien's mind is most revealing and is encyclopedic, and his ability to explain how deeply the master philologist would see legends and myths in the most ordinary of names and words left me thunderstruck.
		Tom Shippey's book focuses on the creative process leading to LOTR and the Silmarillion and draws from all of Tolkien's other works as well as a variety of other appropriate works that were familiar to Tolkien.
	www.amazon.ca /Road-Middle-Earth-Tom-Shippey/dp/0618257608 (1272 words)

	Tolkien Bibliography: review 2000 - Tom Shippey - Author of the Century
		Tom Shippey also examines The Hobbit, explaining The Hobbits' anachronistic relationship to the heroic world of Middle-earth, and shows the fundamental importance of The Silmarillion to the canon of Tolkien's work.
		Shippey presents a unique argument to explain the nature of evil and gives readers a compelling insight into the complicated interweaving of many strands as the narrative moves between characters and into the remarkable skill behind the construction of such a rich and complex story.
		Tom's loneliness is evident in "Bombadil Goes Boating," and his status as something wholly other is evident by the arrows he receives in his hat - which he prefers to consider the hobbits' way of teasing him as the merry animals do.
	www.tolkienlibrary.com /booksabouttolkien/authorofthecent/description.htm (3133 words)

	Review of Tom Shippey Book
		Shippey wants to feel that his own enthusiasm, which is for morally serious fantasy of the kind Tolkien pioneered, is worthy of a place up there at the top table alongside the totemic great names of the western canon.
		Shippey acknowledges that sales alone show only part of the picture; after all, the world of trade publishing during the past 50 years has been a realm in which foul-mouthed radio personalities, semi-literate professional wrestlers, and even U.S. senators have earned substantial sums for their literary accomplishment.
		Shippey provides a detailed examination of Tolkien's works, providing a close thematic examination and demonstrating the author's skillful borrowing of words and concepts from Old Norse literature (a field in which Tolkien was, during his lifetime, preeminent).
	www.tolkiencollector.com /shippey.html (2712 words)

	Why Do They Hate Him? by Stephen W. Carson
		Shippey writes, "This is probably at the heart of the critical rage, and fear, which Tolkien immediately and ever after provoked.
		Shippey discusses this particularly in his discussion of The Hobbit, the prequel to The Lord of the Rings, "Bilbo is then defined from the start by time, class, and culture.
		Tom Wolfe comments on this hilariously in his essay "My Three Stooges" in which he critiques the excessive inwardness in the works of modernist darlings John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving.
	www.lewrockwell.com /carson/carson10.html (2419 words)

	Interview: Talking Tolkien With Thomas Shippey Writers Write -- The IWJ
		Professor Thomas Shippey is uniquely qualified to opine on all things Tolkien: he taught at Oxford University at the same time as J.R.R. Tolkien, and later taught with the same syllabus, which gives him an intimate familiarity with the works that fueled Tolkien's imagination.
		Shippey argues that the so-called literati who have dismissed Tolkien and his works are at best misguided, and at worst have ulterior motives for attempting to dismiss an author who has become a cultural phenomenon.
		Professor Shippey spoke to us about the challenges of bringing Tolkien's languages to the big screen, and why he believes that Tolkien is the 20th century's most underrated author.
	www.writerswrite.com /journal/mar02/shippey.htm (3113 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century - Tom Shippey - Product Details :: ttgapers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Shippey also examines The Hobbit, explaining the hobbits' anachronistic relationship to the heroic world of Middle-earth, and shows the fundamental importance of The Silmarillion to the canon of Tolkien's work.
		Shippey tends to get a little defensive (and sometimes rude toward Tolkien critics), his analysis of the Tolkien corpus is enlivening.
		Shippey's book is in large part a rebuttal of this dismissal of Tolkein's work by most of the `literary establishment'.
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	SLU professor is a lord of "the Rings"
		Shippey met Tolkien just a year before the author's death in 1973 and ran into him several times when they were living near each other in Oxford.
		Shippey was speaking at a Tolkien conference in 1970, and conference attendees were fleeing in droves as literary experts droned on, analyzing Tolkien's work from the perspectives of "sociology, psychology and some other damn-ology.
		Shippey's linguistic mastery and rebel persona embolden him as a Tolkien champion within the literary establishment and on the national media circuit.
	www.colleen-carroll.com /articles/121901shippey.htm (992 words)

	Tom Shippey, J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Shippey's intention in his earlier book on Tolkien, The Road to Middle-earth, was to set Tolkien's work in a philological context by showing how Tolkien's relationship with ancient works and the ancient world informed his writing.
		Shippey acquits himself well, although occasionally this vast, multifaceted, multidisciplinary undertaking leaves him in the position of Leacock's rider, "riding off in all directions." In particular, Shippey feels a need to quote and refute every negative critic, even the clueless dim bulbs.
		Shippey begins with the argument that the dominant literary mode of the twentieth century is fantastic (meaning not just fantasy, but science fiction, fables and allegories).
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_shippey_tolkien.html (2110 words)

	Looking for Baylor - My big fat report on Tom Shippey's lecture, as threatened. Um, promised.
		Shippey said that Tolkien saw at least one script adaptation of LOTR in 1957, which he marked up and returned to the scriptwriter in 1958, with some seemingly scathing remarks about it.
		Shippey said that Tolkien did not mind the abridgment of the work; what he did mind was the compression of the work, which would subordinate the quiet scenes for the action scenes.
		Shippey said the right person to judge the movies is hardly him -- in fact, he said he is one of the worst choices to judge the movies.
	baylorsr.livejournal.com /107947.html (2340 words)

	Renowned Tolkien Expert Can Discuss "Lord of the Rings" Movie \| Saint Louis University
		Tom Shippey, the Walter J. Ong, S.J., Chair of Humanities at Saint Louis University, was delighted to help.
		His connections to the "The Hobbit" scribe are remarkable: Shippey taught at Oxford University during the same time and with the same syllabus as Tolkien.
		Shippey is available to discuss what the modifications will be needed to translate the story to the screen and what filmmakers will need to get right to satisfy Tolkien's legions of fans.
	www.slu.edu /readstory/more/240 (432 words)

	Amazon.com: J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century: Books: Tom Shippey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Shippey explains why he wrote archaically, how the more modern hobbit society, with its postal system and manners, fits in with the rest of Middle-Earth, and how to classify the various cultures and nations (like Rohan and Gondor) appearing in the works, to name a few.
		Shippey also describes how Tolkien, as a devout philologist, was obsessed with words--with their infinite variations, and how the author utilized this knowledge not only to create names and places in his writing, but also create extensive, intricate languages.
		Shippey compares the novel to other allegories, and readily admits some of Tolkien's later short stories were indeed allegorical; thus the allegory card is played, albeit in a limited, less than satisfying way.
	www.amazon.com /J-R-R-Tolkien-Century-Tom-Shippey/dp/061812764X (2642 words)

	T.A. Shippey, Tolkien Scholar to Give Talks (February 15-16, 2006)
		Dr. Tom Shippey, well known Anglo-Saxonist and Tolkien scholar will be in Stillwater Feb 15th and 16th.
		Shippey taught Old English at St. John's College, Oxford for seven years, just overlapping with Tolkien's last years of retirement.
		The talks are sponsored by the Norris Foundation and coordinated by the OSU English Department.
	english.okstate.edu /home/news/shippey/shippey.htm (312 words)

	vaznetti: Recently read:Tom Shippey, The Road to M
		Shippey takes Tolkien's claim to not be writing allegory seriously, but he also looks carefully at what Tolkien might mean (and not mean) by "allegory," and the fairly complicated ways in which what Tolkien writes relates to the experience of Britain (or perhaps just England) in the twentieth century.
		One very amusing thing in this is Shippey's treatment of critical responses to Tolkien's work; as an academic (and a philologist) himself he's not much daunted by the writers of literary criticism, but he also takes the practice of literary criticism seriously.
		His point that the modern critical toolbox is not well stocked to deal with the literature that is most widely read is a valid one, and the habit critics have of dismissing that literature is a sign of a problem in them, not in the books.
	vaznetti.livejournal.com /356772.html (1438 words)

	Salon.com Books \| The book of the century
		If T.A. Shippey's "J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century" is not quite that book, it is nonetheless a delightful exploration of the relationship between Tolkien's fiction and his scholarly work and of the mythical, linguistic and philosophical history underlying both.
		Like Tolkien, Shippey is a professor of Old English and medieval literature, and even taught the same philological syllabus at Oxford during the author's latter years, although his acquaintance with Tolkien was apparently slight.
		Shippey doesn't quite put it this way, but his book, especially read in conjunction with Humphrey Carpenter's admirable 1977 biography and the Carpenter-edited volume of Tolkien's letters, suggests that Tolkien's immense popularity, and the animosity he continues to engender in some quarters, stem from some essential contradictions in the man and his work.
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2001/06/04/tolkien (924 words)

	Amazon.de: J. R. R. Tolkien, Author of the Century: English Books: Tom A. Shippey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In addition, Shippey shows that Tolkien as a storyteller often improved on his ancient sources, while The Lord of the Rings is unmistakably a work of its time.
		Names, especially, carry meaning, and, proceeding from Tolkien's assertion that his fantasy fiction was "fundamentally linguistic in inspiration," Shippey demonstrates how Tolkien used names to generate the plots, moral concepts, and cultural resonance of his works, especially The Lord of the Rings.
		Shippey maintains that, despite their backward glancing, Tolkien's Middle-Earth stories are essentially modern in their concern with the nature of evil, the hollowness of victory, and--though Tolkien characterized The Lord of the Rings as a Catholic book--deep religious skepticism.
	www.amazon.de /J-R-Tolkien-Author-Century/dp/0261104012 (648 words)

	A Philology for England
		Shippey argues that Tolkien believed Philology was more than the study of languages and essentially included literature as a stimulus or inspiration for language study.
		Shippey and the rest of the fans tend to view the world from the point of view of the early criticisms.
		Shippey’s unique contributions are derived from his knowledge of older languages and their histories.
	www.tolkiencollector.com /shippeyb.htm (2999 words)

	Kaveny on Tolkien, Author of the Century, by Tom Shippey
		What Shippey's really does is move the Fantastic from margins to the center of literary discourse, making some decidedly post-modern moves to do so.
		Shippey's work builds on West's of course now there is even more evidence to support the claim.
		Here is where Shippey is best, and where his qualifications are most important, because in a sense he almost followed in Tolkien's academic footsteps a half century later, though now he teaches at the University of St Louis in the United States.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~d-lena/KavenyOnTomShippey.html (1768 words)

	Student Summaries of and Responses to Secondary Literature about Tolkien and Lewis
		Tom Shippey, who has written essays on Tolkien and his works and has also met the writer, says that it is all in his words.
		Yet, with all the evidence and proofs Shippey gives, it is probably as close as any unrelated individual is ever going to get to being inside the mind of J.R.R. Tolkien.
		This is Shippey’s transition from meanings and creations of words to that of the language or the actual use of them.
	www.hatrack.com /svu/tolkien_lewis/RoadtoMiddleEarthSummary.html (1228 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: J.R.R. Tolkien, by Tom A. Shippey, Paperback
		Shippey's witty, combative book is illuminatingthe central chapters demonstrate the ingenious articulation of the trilogy, the profundity of its thought about suffering, and evil, both personal and institutional, cosmic and frankly devilish.
		Shippey succeeds brilliantly[His] exploration of Tolkien's themes, especially the nature of evil, power, and what one character calls 'the long defeat,' is superbTaking on the critics on their own ground, Shippey reveals Tolkien's use of a complex narrative structure and the flexibility with which he moved between different literary modes.
		Shippey, who taught at Oxford U. at the same time and with the same syllabus as Tolkien, argues in favor of Tolkien's literary merits and offers a unique and revealing reading of the books that introduced the imaginary world of Middle-earth.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780618257591&itm=1 (899 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: J.R.R.Tolkien: Author of the Century: Books: T.A. Shippey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In light of this, the respected and world-renowned Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey presents us with a companion to the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, in particular focusing on "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Silmarillion".
		Tom Shippey has produced a masterpiece justification of why J.R.R.Tolkien deserves the honor of the title "Author of the Century", not only in the U.K. but on a worldwide basis.
		Tom Shippey has the ability to approach the Tolkien books differently and at the same time answer many of those ideological doubts.
	www.amazon.co.uk /J-R-R-Tolkien-Author-Century-T-Shippey/dp/0261104004 (1107 words)

	Tom Shippey (MHT-52)
		Philologist Tom Shippey notes the characteristics that indicate that the Lord of the Rings is a twentieth-century work even though it is not set in the twentieth century.
		Shippey also discusses the traditional pattern of the quest and how the trilogy does not fit it.
		Tom Shippey has also been featured on the MARS HILL AUDIO Conversation "Maker of Middle-Earth." A short description of this Conversation is listed here.
	www.marshillaudio.org /resources/segment_detail.asp?ID=453054327 (188 words)

	Tom Shippey's latest Tolkien book released -- get some salt \| Lord of the Rings news \| J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the ...
		Shippey, who felt he had said all he could say in The Road To Middle-earth, pointedly ignores much of what Tolkien himself said about his own work, and virtually calls the author a liar when examining his sources.
		Such conveniences of oversight serve to underscore the fact that Shippey is at heart a propagandist, not determined to find the truth of the story or to present the true sources, but rather intent on overwhelmingly propounding the Anglo-Saxonist cause as the heart of Tolkien's inspiration.
		In considering the value of his new book, Shippey's departures from Tolkien and outright brutalizations of the subject matter in past efforts should be kept in mind by the reader.
	www.xenite.org /faqs/lotr_movie/news_0000/234.html (1063 words)

	The Road to Middle-Earth by Tom Shippey Press Release
		Tom Shippey's The Road to Middle-earth, considered one of the foundations of J.R.R. Tolkien scholarship, answers this intriguing question.
		Insightful and engaging, Shippey's classic work explores Tolkien's creativity and the sources of his inspiration — from the Icelandic sagas and other Teutonic legends of the distant north to Beowulf and the lost literature of the Anglo-Saxons.
		Shippey is well qualified to offer analysis; he taught at Oxford, overlapping chronologically with Professor Tolkien and teaching the same syllabus, which gave him an intimate familiarity with the poems and languages that were a primary stimulus to Tolkien's imagination.
	www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /booksellers/press_release/middleearth (1739 words)

	Observer review: JRR Tolkien by Tom Shippey \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Tom Shippey emerged as one of Tolkien's most acute critics and convincing apologists with The Road to Middle Earth (1983), a nicely Tolkienian title.
		While the academy, quite properly, theorises about what ought to be and has been, the imaginative and emotional needs served by the art of lying that is fiction must still be met.
		Tolkien, Shippey argues, was in an interesting dialectic between the Boethian view of evil, where it is, in the end, a privation of good, and the dualist or Manichean, where it is an active principle based on the corrupted will of sentient beings.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/classics/0,,378905,00.html (631 words)

	Amazon.com: The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition: Books: Tom Shippey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Shippey admits in the foreword he may be stepping across the line, since Tolkien himself warned the author against reading too much into anything.
		But the ride is fun and in Shippey's whirlwind fashion the reader is treated to a torrent of near-mystical adulation for one of the 20th century's greatest authors.
		And despite Shippey's own tendency to accuse Tolkien of deception, he pounces with delightful vengeance and righteous anger upon many a critic who has sought to lay low the immensity of Tolkien's creation.
	www.amazon.com /Road-Middle-earth-Revised-Expanded/dp/0618257608 (1805 words)

	CNN.com - The secret of Tolkien's 'Rings' - December 19, 2001
		And Shippey, the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St. Louis University in Missouri, said he knows why Tolkien's work -- particularly "The Hobbit" (originally published in 1937) and "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy (published in the mid-1950s) -- still has an audience today.
		Shippey, meantime, said Tolkien created a new genre from one of the most popular forms of storytelling.
		But Shippey said the movie and its two scheduled sequels have done nothing but increase this generation's awareness of Tolkien.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/books/12/19/hol.rings.tolkien/index.html (1106 words)

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