# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tom-shippey
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:05:03.017Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tom-shippey"
name: "Tom Shippey"
slug: "tom-shippey"
description: "Thomas Alan Shippey 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\"."
tagline: "British linguist, critic, fiction writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tom_Shippey_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-09-09"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.273728
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0794142/"
    handle:    "nm0794142"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Shippey"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Shippey"
    title: "Tom Shippey"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Thomas Alan Shippey"
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    title: "Tom Shippey"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Shippey"
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    title: "Шиппи, Том"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tom Shippey"
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    title: "Шиппі Томас Алан"
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    title: "湯姆·希比"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump