MFA finalists

So, the Mythopoeic Society has now announced the five finalists for this year's Mythopoeic Award in Inklings Studies:

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings StudiesJohn M. Bowers,  Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer  (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Oronzo Cilli,  Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist  (Luna Press, 2019)
John Garth,  The Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth  (Princeton University Press, 2020)
Catherine McIlwaine, ed,  Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth  (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2018)
John D. Rateliff, ed,  A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger  (Gabbro Head, 2018)

That's an impressive array of interesting books, each of which makes a significant contribution to Tolkien studies, and I'm pleased that a work I contributed to made the list.

For more information, including the nominees for the awards in fantasy studies, fantasy fiction, and fantasy fiction for young readers, see

http://www.mythsoc.org/news/news-2021-08-01.htm

--John R.

--current (re) reading: THE WORM OUROBOROS by E. R. Eddison