Road to Middle-Earth How J.R.R. Tolken Created a New Mythology

Tom Shippey taught at Oxford, overlapping chronologically with Professor Tolkien and teaching the same syllabus, which gave him an intimate familiarity with the poems and languages that were a primary stimulus to Tolkien's imagination. He subsequently held the Chair of English Language and Medieval Literature at Leeds University, which Tolkien had held early in his career, and he currently holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St. Louis University in MissouriShippey, T. A. is the author of 'Road to Middle-Earth How J.R.R. Tolken Created a New Mythology', published 2003 under ISBN 9780618257607 and ISBN 0618257608.