Tom Shippey
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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.
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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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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".
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