Christina Scull (born 6 March 1942 in
Bristol
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, England) is a British researcher and writer best known for her books about the works of
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''.
From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson ...
, in collaboration with her husband
Wayne G. Hammond who is also a Tolkien scholar.
They have jointly won
Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards for Inklings Studies five times.
Biography
Christina Scull was born in
Bristol
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and was educated at the
Redmaids' High School there. She worked for the
London
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Board of Trade from 1961 to 1971 while completing her
Bachelor of Arts
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degree in art history and medieval history at
Birkbeck College. From 1971 to 1995, she served as Librarian of the
Sir John Soane's Museum
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in London.
describes Scull and Hammond as "two highly regarded veterans of Tolkien studies."
She married the American Tolkien scholar
Wayne G. Hammond in December 1994 and has subsequently collaborated with him on several projects.
Awards and distinctions
Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards for Inklings Studies, all jointly with Hammond:
* 1996 for ''
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator''
* 1999 for ''
Roverandom''
* 2000 for ''
Farmer Giles of Ham''
* 2006 for ''
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion''
* 2012 for ''The Art of the Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien''
Books
* 1991 ''The Soane Hogarths''.
Sir John Soane's Museum
Sir John Soane's Museum is a Historic house museum, house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of Neoclassical architecture, neo-classical architect John Soane. It holds many drawings and ...
and Trefoil Publications.
* 1995 (with
Wayne G. Hammond) ''
J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator''.
Houghton Mifflin
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.
* 2005 (with Wayne G. Hammond) ''
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion''. Houghton Mifflin.
* 2006 (with Wayne G. Hammond) ''The Lord of the Rings 1954-2004: Scholarship in Honor of Richard E. Blackwelder''.
Marquette University Press.
* 2006 (with Wayne G. Hammond) ''
The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide''. Houghton Mifflin. Revised and expanded edition 2017.
* 2018 (with Catherine McIlwaine) ''
Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth''.
Bodleian Library.
* 2024 (with Wayne G. Hammond) ''
The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien''
See also
*
Tolkien research
*
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'' ...
References
External links
Official site of Christina Scull and Wayne Hammond*
*
with a 2010 critique of Wikipedia's Tolkien coverage
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Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
Living people
1942 births
Writers from Bristol
The Tolkien Society members
Tolkien scholars
Tolkien Society Award winners