Carl F. Hostetter
Carl Franklin Hostetter is a
Career
NASA
Carl Hostetter joined NASA as a computer scientist at its Goddard Space Flight Center in 1985.[1] In the 1990s, he edited the proceedings of the Goddard Space Conference for some years.
Tolkien scholar
Hostetter is a
Reception
John S. Ryan, reviewing the 2000 collection Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (edited by Hostetter and Verlyn Flieger) for VII, called it a "luminous companion" to the 12 volumes of Christopher Tolkien's The History of Middle-earth, and "clearly indispensable".[6] The book won the 2002 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.[7]
The Tolkien scholar Douglas C. Kane, while welcoming the 2021 book
Books
Middle-earth
- Edited
- 2000 Greenwood Press
- 2003 Early Quenya Fragments / Early Quenya Grammar (with Bill Welden) Cupertino: The Tolkien Trust
- 2005 The Collected Vinyar Tengwar (with Jorge Quiñonez) Crofton: Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
- 2021 The Nature of Middle-earth: late writings on the lands, inhabitants, and metaphysics of Middle-earth (texts by J.R.R. Tolkien) Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Space science
- Edited
- 1993 Space applications of artificial intelligence: Goddard Conference. Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
- 1994 Space applications of artificial intelligence: Goddard Conference. Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
- 1995 Space applications of artificial intelligence: Goddard Conference. Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
References
- ^ Flood, Alison (19 November 2020). "Unseen JRR Tolkien essays on Middle-earth coming in 2021". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ Casagr, Cristina (16 July 2021). "From Linguistics to Metaphysics: interview with Carl F. Hostetter, editor of the new book by J.R.R. Tolkien". On fairy-stories. Retrieved 20 July 2022.
- ^ "Lambengolmor". Tolkien list search. Retrieved 24 November 2022.
- ^ "Tengwestië". Elvish Linguistic Fellowship. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ Anderson, Douglas A., Carl F. Hostetter: A Checklist, Tolkien Studies 4 (2007)
- JSTOR 45296793.}
- ^ "Mythopoeic Awards - 2002". Mythopoeic Society. 29 July 2002. Retrieved 3 May 2021.
- Journal of Tolkien Research. 13 (1). article 5.
External links
- Carl F. Hostetter at Tolkien Gateway
- Carl F. Hostetter at Goddard Space Flight Center