Verlyn Flieger (born 1933) is an author, editor, and Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland at College Park, where...

characteristics, while Morgoth gets his destructiveness, malevolence, and deceit. Verlyn Flieger writes that the central temptation is the desire to possess, something...

several times during his journey to Mount Doom. The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger describes the Phial as a splinter of the created light, deriving from...

Anderson, Michael D. C. Drout, and Verlyn Flieger, and the current editors are Michael D. C. Drout, Verlyn Flieger, and David Bratman. It states that...

is an 1983 book of literary criticism by the leading Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger, in which she argues that light is a central theme of Tolkien's Middle-earth...

languages, Quenya and Sindarin, of the divided Elves. The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger states that Tolkien used the Indo-European type of proto-language as...

knowledge of good and evil as in the Genesis story of Garden of Eden. Verlyn Flieger analyzes The Silmarillion as a story of splintering of the created light...

History of Middle-earth is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter on the 12 volumes of The History of Middle-earth...

interpretations such as that Alf is a figure of Christ. The American scholar Verlyn Flieger sees it instead as a story of Faërie in its own right. J. R. R. Tolkien...

Kalevala, and 'The Story of Kullervo' by Verlyn Flieger The Story of Kullervo was edited by Verlyn Flieger, published in 2010 in Tolkien Studies, and...

Kalevala's central character, the demigod Väinämöinen. The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger writes that if there was an opposite to Sauron in The Lord of the Rings...

country was filled with factions and dissenting voices. The result, Verlyn Flieger comments, is nearer to the vision of George Orwell's 1984 than escapist...

Withywindle in the centre of the forest, controlling most of it. The scholar Verlyn Flieger has observed that the hostility of the Old Forest and of Old Man Willow...

scholars Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter edited a scholarly collection "Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth". Flieger writes...

scheme of English teaching, namely Tolkien's own subject, philology. Verlyn Flieger doubted the connection, writing that the Birch played a significant...

and Balor "ruled the dead from a tower of glass". The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger writes that if there was an opposite to Sauron in The Lord of the Rings...

and medieval dream vision poetry. The scholar of English literature Verlyn Flieger calls the poem "a cry of longing for lost beauty", and relates it to...

Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (edited by Hostetter and Verlyn Flieger) for VII, called it a "luminous companion" to the 12 volumes of Christopher...

life, as a sort of coda. Tolkien scholars including Tom Shippey and Verlyn Flieger, while noting some good points in the book, roundly criticised Chance's...

and the Elvish desire to escape from immortality. The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger suggests that these illustrate a Christian message, that one must not...

has been traced to the medieval Dry Tree, a symbol of resurrection. Verlyn Flieger has described the progressive splintering of the light of the Two Trees...

Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter, 95-104. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2000. Foster...

descriptions of characters and landscapes. Others, like Catherine Madsen and Verlyn Flieger, consider the way that The Lord of the Rings is at once pagan and Christian...

in Sigurd's case Fafnir; in Túrin's, Glaurung. The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger further likens the tale of Túrin to Arthurian Legend, with its complex...

Crist A was "the catalyst for Tolkien's mythology". The Tolkien scholar Verlyn Flieger writes in her 1983 book Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's...

Schakel 1998 – A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger 1999 – C. S. Lewis: A Companion and Guide by Walter Hooper 2000 – Roverandom...

the 21st century. From 1982, Tolkien scholars such as Tom Shippey and Verlyn Flieger began to roll back the hostility, defending Tolkien, rebutting the critics'...

ISBN 978-1-8512-4565-9. Flieger, Verlyn (1983). Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World. Wm. B. Eerdmans. ISBN 978-0-8028-1955-0. Flieger, Verlyn (2005)...

central role in Tolkien's first attempts to compose original mythology. Verlyn Flieger, the editor of The Story of Kullervo, identifies its "blue-robed Lady...

the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM". Verlyn Flieger wrote that Elias Lönnrot intentionally created the Kalevala as a mythology...