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Vincent Ferré
Vincent Ferré is a French scholar of comparative literature, a medievalist, and a Tolkien scholar, known especially for his book on ''The Lord of the Rings'', ''Tolkien: sur les rivages de la Terre du Milieu'', and for his encyclopedic ''Dictionnaire Tolkien''. Life Vincent Ferré was born in Mayenne, France in 1974. He gained his Baccalaureat from the Lycée Lavoisier, Mayenne in 1992, and then spent two years studying literature at the Lycée Fénelon, Paris. He gained his master's degree in 1996 in comparative literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. He spent four years at the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud. He then gained a Diplôme d'études approfondies (an additional year of study) at the Sorbonne. He completed his PhD with a thesis on Proust, Broch, and Don Passos in 2003. He has two children. He worked in the faculty of humanities in the University of Paris 13-Paris Nord from 2004, completing his postdoctoral research Habilitation i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolkien Scholar
The works of J. R. R. Tolkien have generated a body of research covering many aspects of his High fantasy, fantasy writings. These encompass ''The Lord of the Rings'' and ''The Silmarillion'', along with Tolkien's legendarium, his legendarium that remained unpublished until after his death, and languages constructed by J. R. R. Tolkien, his constructed languages, especially the Elvish languages of Middle-earth, Elvish languages Quenya and Sindarin. Scholars from different disciplines have examined the linguistic and literary origins of Middle-earth, and have explored Themes of The Lord of the Rings, many aspects of his writings from Christianity in Middle-earth, Christianity to Women in The Lord of the Rings, feminism and Tolkien and race, race. Biographical Biographies of Tolkien have been written by Humphrey Carpenter, with his 1977 ''J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography'' and of Tolkien's wartime years by John Garth (author), John Garth with his 2003 ''Tolkien and the Great War: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sorbonne Nouvelle University
The Sorbonne Nouvelle University (, also known as Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris 3, Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Sorbonne) is a public liberal arts and humanities university in Paris, France. It is one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was completely overhauled and restructured in 1970. History The historic University of Paris first appeared in the second half of the 12th century, but was reorganised in 1970 as 13 autonomous universities after the student protests of the French May. Sorbonne Nouvelle, or "Paris III", is one of the inheritors of University of Paris faculty of humanities ("arts et lettres"). University sites The Sorbonne Nouvelle has sites at various locations in Paris. Main university campuses * Sorbonne Campus — central administration offices, Literature department * Nation Campus – the main teaching site, named after the arrondissement (since 2022) * Condorcet Campus — Institute for Advanced Latin Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Catherine McIlwaine
Catherine McIlwaine is the Tolkien archivist at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and a Tolkien scholar. She won a World Fantasy Special Award—Professional for curating an exhibition of Tolkien's artwork at the Bodleian, and a Hugo Award and a Tolkien Society Award for the accompanying book, '' Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth''. Life Education Catherine McIlwaine earned her BA in classical civilization at the University of Sheffield in 1989. She completed her MA in archival administration at the University of Liverpool in 1993. Tolkien scholar In 2003 she became Tolkien archivist at the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford. In 2018, McIlwaine curated a major exhibition of Tolkien's artwork at the Bodleian, '' Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth'', accompanied by a book of the same name that analyses Tolkien's achievement and illustrates the full range of the types of artwork that he created. Denis Bridoux, reviewing the book for ''Tolkien Studies'', calls it "a mamm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CNRS Éditions
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 engineers and technical staff, and 7,085 contractual workers. It is headquartered in Paris and has administrative offices in Brussels, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Washington, D.C., Bonn, Moscow, Tunis, Johannesburg, Santiago de Chile, Israel, and New Delhi. Organization The CNRS operates on the basis of research units, which are of two kinds: "proper units" (UPRs) are operated solely by the CNRS, and Joint Research Units (UMRs – ) are run in association with other institutions, such as universities or INSERM. Members of Joint Research Units may be either CNRS researchers or university employees ( ''maîtres de conférences'' or ''professeurs''). Each research unit has a numeric code attached and is typically headed by a university professo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Honegger
Thomas Honegger (born 1965) is a German scholar of literature, known especially for his studies of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Biography Thomas Honegger obtained an MA in English Studies, Medieval Germanic Languages, and Medieval German Literature from the University of Zurich. He then worked in that university's Department of English as an assistant. He took his PhD in 1996 on the subject of "Animals in Medieval English Literature". He worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Zurich. He had temporary postings at the universities of Kiel, Berlin, Zurich and Jena before becoming professor of Old English at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena in 2002. He contributed a chapter on Tolkien's academic writings to Wiley-Blackwell's '' A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien'', published in 2014. Books * 2004: ''Riddles, knights and cross-dressing saints : essays on medieval English lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verlyn Flieger
Verlyn Flieger (born 1933) is an author, editor, and Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she taught courses in comparative mythology, medieval literature, and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. She is well known as a Tolkien scholar, especially for her books '' Splintered Light'', '' A Question of Time'', and '' Interrupted Music''. She has won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award four times for her work on Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. Biography Flieger holds a master's degree (1972) and doctorate (1977) from The Catholic University of America, and has been associated with the University of Maryland since 1976. In 2012, retiring from teaching at Maryland, Flieger began teaching Arthurian studies online at Signum University. Her best-known books are '' Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World'' (1983; revised edition, 2002), which argues that light is a central theme of Tolkien's Middle-earth mythology; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Shippey
Thomas Alan Shippey (born 9 September 1943) is a British medievalist, a retired scholar of Middle and Old English literature as well as of modern fantasy and science fiction. He is considered one of the world's leading academic experts on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien about whom he has written several books and many scholarly papers. His book ''The Road to Middle-Earth'' has been called "the single best thing written on Tolkien". Shippey's education and academic career have in several ways retraced those of Tolkien: he attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, became a professional philologist, occupied Tolkien's professorial chair at the University of Leeds, and taught Old English at the University of Oxford to the syllabus that Tolkien had devised. He has received three Mythopoeic Awards and a World Fantasy Award. He participated in the creation of Peter Jackson's ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy, assisting the dialect coaches. He featured as an expert medievalist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death And Immortality In Middle-earth
J. R. R. Tolkien repeatedly dealt with the theme of death and immortality in Middle-earth. He stated directly that the "real theme" of ''The Lord of the Rings'' was "Death and Immortality." In Middle-earth, Men are mortal, while Elves are immortal. One of his stories, ''The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen'', explores the willing choice of death through the love of an immortal Elf for a mortal Man. He several times revisited the Old Norse theme of the mountain tomb, containing treasure along with the dead and visited by fighting. He brought multiple leading evil characters in ''The Lord of the Rings'' to a fiery end, including Gollum, the Nazgûl, the Dark Lord Sauron, and the evil Wizard Saruman, while in ''The Hobbit'', the dragon Smaug is killed. Their destruction contrasts with the heroic deaths of two leaders of the free peoples, Théoden of Rohan and Boromir of Gondor, reflecting the early medieval ideal of Northern courage. Despite these pagan themes, the work contains hints ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The J
J, or j, is the tenth letter of the English alphabet. J may also refer to: * Palatal approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet * J, Je (Cyrillic), Cyrillic letter Je Astronomy * J, a provisional designation in astronomy, provisional designation prefix for some objects discovered between May 1 and 15 of a year Computing * J (programming language), successor to APL * J Sharp, J# programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework * J operator, a programming construct * J (operating system), an operating system for ICL's System 4 series of computers Genetics and medicine * Haplogroup J (mtDNA) * Haplogroup J (Y-DNA) * ATC code J ''Antiinfectives for systemic use'', a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System Mathematics * J, symbol used to denote the Bessel function * ''j'', used as the symbol for the imaginary unit (\sqrt) in fields where ''i'' is used for a different purpose (such as electric current) * ''j'' and ''j2'' (or \bar) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Translating The Lord Of The Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings'' has been translated, with varying degrees of success, into dozens of languages from the original English. He was critical of some early versions, and made efforts to improve translation by providing a detailed "Guide to the Names in ''The Lord of the Rings''", alongside an appendix "On Translation" in the book itself. The complexity of the book, the nature of Tolkien's prose style with its archaisms, and the many names of characters and places combine to make translation into any language a challenge. A specific difficulty is the elaborate relationship between some of the real and invented languages used in the book. Westron, the common speech of Middle-earth, is "translated" as modern English; this stands in relation to Rohirric, an archaic language, which is represented by Old English, and the language of Dale, translated as Old Norse. The three real languages are related. The scholar of literature Thomas Honegger gives possible ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle-earth
Middle-earth is the Setting (narrative), setting of much of the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy. The term is equivalent to the ''Midgard, Miðgarðr'' of Norse mythology and ''Middangeard'' in Old English works, including ''Beowulf''. Middle-earth is the oecumene (i.e. the human-inhabited world, or the central continent of Earth) in Tolkien's imagined mythopoeia, mythological past. Tolkien's most widely read works, ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'', are set entirely in Middle-earth. "Middle-earth" has also become Metonym, a short-hand term for Tolkien's legendarium, his large body of fantasy writings, and for the entirety of his fictional world. Middle-earth is the main continent of Cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium#Spherical-earth cosmology, Earth (Arda) in an imaginary period of the past, ending with Tolkien's Third Age, about 6,000 years ago. Tolkien's tales of Middle-earth mostly focus on the north-west of the continent. This region is suggestive of Eu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
