Tom Shippey (Author of J.R.R. Tolkien)

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Average rating: 4.21 · 310 ratings · 6 reviews · 16 distinct works

	J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century 4.21 avg rating — 540 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology 4.20 avg rating — 492 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories by Tom Shippey (Editor), Brian Aldiss (Contributor), Rudyard Kipling (Contributor) 4.10 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1992 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Roots and Branches 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous (Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series), V. 291.) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Beowulf: The Critical Heritage by Tom Shippey (Editor ), Andreas Haarder (Editor ), Tom A. Shippey 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Tolkien e la filosofia by Tom Shippey (author), Franco Manni (autore), Claudio Antonio Testi (Editor) 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	My rating:
	J.R.R. Tolkien: Autore Del Secolo 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004	My rating:
	Poems Of Wisdom And Learning In Old English 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	My rating:

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“When people say that this kind of fantasy fiction is escapist and evading the real world, well I think that’s an evasion. It’s actually trying to confront something that most people would rather not confront.”
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“The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.”
― Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

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