Interrupted Music: The Making of Tolkien's Mythology
Verlyn Flieger is professor of English at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is the author of the expanded and updated edition of Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World (Kent State University Press, 2002), A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faerie (Kent State University Press, 1997), and coeditor of Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth.