Herausgegeben von: Tom Shippey

Tom Shippey inherited J. R. R. Tolkien's Chair of Medieval English Language at the University of Leeds, where he taught the syllabus Tolkien had set up. He now holds the Walter J. Ong Chair of Humanities at St Louis University, Missouri, specializing in Medieval Literature, Old English Arthurian and Romance Literature, Fantasy, and Science Fiction. He has written and edited numerous books, including J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. (2001), The Road to Middle-earth. (second edition, 1992), The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories. (reissue, 2003), and Fiction 2000: Cyberpunk and the Future of Narrative. (co-edited with George Slusser, 1993).