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I am Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children's Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. I write on, research, and teach the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, children's fantasy, and fantasy and folklore. ...more

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This blog remains available as an archive of older essays and posts. My current writing now appears on Substack at A kind of elvish craft, where I publish essays, research notes, and recorded lectures on Tolkien, fantasy, children’s literature, folklore, and miniature worlds.

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	The World of J.R.R. Tolkien 4.12 avg rating — 699 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J.R.R. Tolkien, Dimitra Fimi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Higgins (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.06 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 2016 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits 4.24 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Work, its Precursors and its Legacies by Dimitra Fimi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Thomas M. Honegger (Editor) 4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ring Goes Ever on - Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference (v. 1&2) by Sarah Wells (Editor), Tom Shippey, John Garth (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mapping Middle-earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's Cartographies by Anahit Behrooz, Matthew Sangster (Series Editor), Dimitra Fimi (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	J. R. R. Tolkien y la Tierra Media: Once ensayos sobre el mayor mito literario del siglo XX by Thomas Honegger, Dimitra Fimi (Goodreads Author), Verlyn Flieger it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagining the Celtic Past in Modern Fantasy by Dimitra Fimi (Goodreads Author) (editor), Matthew Sangster (Series Editor), Brian Attebery (Series Editor) 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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