Verlyn Flieger
Verlyn Flieger (born 1933) is an author,
Biography
Flieger holds a master's degree (1972) and doctorate (1977) from
Her best-known books are
Flieger won the
In 2013, she won the Mythopoeic Award again for Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien,[6] and in 2019, for a fourth time, for There Would Always Be a Fairy Tale: More Essays on Tolkien.[7]
Flieger has written two
Reception
Bradford Lee Eden describes Splintered Light as "the most important and influential book on both language and music in Tolkien's works", discussing how the two are interwoven as "central themes" throughout The Silmarillion.[8]
J. S. Ryan, reviewing Tolkien's Legendarium for VII, called it a "luminous companion" to the 12 volumes of
Gergely Nagy, in Tolkien Studies, writes of Interrupted Music that it "opens ways" for other scholars working on The Silmarillion, and that as a good book should, it raises many research questions. He notes that Flieger takes the "interrupted music" of the Ainulindalë as a metaphor, "although probably accidental", for Tolkien's unfinished legendarium. Nagy finds the book's argument and writing "exemplarily clear and comprehensible".[10]
Books
Scholarly
- written
- 1983 ISBN 978-0873387446)
- 2001 A Question of Time: J.R.R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie, ISBN 0-87338-699-X
- 2005 Interrupted Music: The Making Of Tolkien's Mythology, ISBN 0-87338-824-0
- 2012 Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien, ISBN 978-1-60635-094-2
- 2019 There Would Always be a Fairytale: More Essays on Tolkien, ISBN 978-1-60635-308-0
- edited
- 2000 ISBN 0-313-30530-7
- 2005 ISBN 0-00-720247-4
- 2008 Tolkien on Fairy-stories by J.R.R. Tolkien (with ISBN 0-00-724466-5
- 2015 ISBN 978-0008131364
- 2016 ISBN 978-0008202132
Fiction
- 2000 "Avilion" in The Doom of Camelot, ed. James Lowder, ISBN 978-1928999096
- 2002 Pig Tale, ISBN 978-0-7868-0792-5
- 2005 "Green Hill Country" in Seekers of Dreams, ed. ISBN 978-1593600488
- 2011 The Inn at Corbies' Caww, Kitsune Books, ISBN 978-0982740941
- 2020 Arthurian Voices, The Gabbro Head Press, ISBN 978-1732579934
References
- ^ "Verlyn Flieger". Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ a b c "Verlyn Flieger". Signum University. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Mythopoeic Awards 1998". Mythopoeic Society. 1998. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Verlyn Flieger". Google Scholar. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Mythopoeic Awards 2002". Mythopoeic Society. 2002. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Mythopoeic Awards 2013". Mythopoeic Society. 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ^ "Mythopoeic Awards 2013". Mythopoeic Society. 2019. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
- ISBN 978-1-119-65602-9.
- ^ JSTOR 45296793.
- ISSN 1547-3163.
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