Tom Shippey
British linguist, critic, fiction writer · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Born 1943 · age 83
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.
Tom Shippey is read about 66 times a day, in 13 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 19 June 2026
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![Both Shippey and J. R. R. Tolkien were professors at Leeds University, with offices near Woodhouse Lane (pictured), a placename that Shippey thought Tolkien would have taken as a trace of the woodwoses, the wild men of the woods.[29]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Tower%2C_spires%2C_chimneys%2C_Woodhouse_Lane%2C_Leeds_%28Taken_by_Flickr_user_28th_January_2013%29.jpg/1280px-Tower%2C_spires%2C_chimneys%2C_Woodhouse_Lane%2C_Leeds_%28Taken_by_Flickr_user_28th_January_2013%29.jpg)
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His book The Road to Middle-Earth has been called "the single best thing written on Tolkien".
Country
United Kingdom
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1943 · age 83
