Verlyn Flieger
Verlyn Flieger is a world-renowned expert on J.R.R. Tolkien, a CatholicU alumna, and a professor-emerita of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she taught courses on Tolkien, Medieval literature and comparative mythology. For several decades, she contributed to the field of Tolkien critical studies through her research, writing, and editorial work. For her hard work and achievements in this field, she was awarded the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies three times (in 1997, 2002, and 2013).
Verlyn Flieger's achievements in Tolkien Studies
Author of:
- Splintered light: logos and language in Tolkien's world, 1983 (2nd. ed., 2002)
- A question of time: J.R.R. Tolkien's road to faërie, 1997
- Interrupted music: the making of Tolkien's mythology, 2005
- Green suns and faërie: essays on Tolkien, 2012
- There would always be a fairy-tale: more essays on Tolkien, 2017
Editor of:
- Tolkien's legendarium: essays on the History of Middle-earth, 2000 (with C.F. Hostetter)
- Tolkien, J.R.R., Smith of Wootton Major, 2005
- Tolkien on fairy stories, 2008 (with D.A. Anderson)
- (ed.) The story of Kullervo, 2016
- (ed.) Lay of Aotrou and Itroun, 2016
Co-founder and editor of Tolkien studies: an annual scholarly review, 2004- (with D.A. Anderson and M.D.C. Drout)
Contributor of multiple essays to collective works
Many of these books are available in the Mullen Library General Stacks
or accessible at Rare Books (Special Collections) Some of them are recent gifts to the Catholic University Libraries.
Flieger, Verlyn, Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World,
Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1983.
One of the classic and beloved works of Tolkien Studies
First edition. Signed by the author.
Recent donation to the CUA Library, Special Collections
from the curators of this exhibit