Tolkien and Welsh (Tolkien a Chymraeg): Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien's Use of Welsh in his Legendarium
Mark T. Hooker is a specialist in Comparative Translation at Indiana University. Retired, he conducts research for publication. His articles on Tolkien have been published in English, in Dutch, in Polish in Ancalim, in Brazilian-Portuguese, and in Russian. He has presented papers at a number of MythCons and at the fourth and fifth Lustrums of the Dutch Tolkien Society. He is the author ofTolkien Through Russian Eyes(Walking Tree, 2003),A Tolkienian Mathomium(Llyfrawr, 2006),The Hobbitonian Anthology(Llyfrawr, 2009), andImplied, but not Stated: Condensation in Colloquial Russian.One of his essays is included in theJ.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings”volume of Dr. Harold Bloom’sModern Critical Interpretationsseries, billed as “the most comprehensive collection of literary reference in the world.” Dr. Bloom is currently the Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English at Yale University.The review ofA Tolkienian MathomiuminTolkien Studiessays, because Hooker’s “breadth of expertise is somewhat unusual for Tolkienian linguists, most of whom come from the Old English/Old Norse quadrant, Hooker has a wide variety of things to say that have not been heard before.”He contributed the article "Reading John Buchan in Search of Tolkien" inTolkien and the Study of his Sources, edited Jason Fisher (McFarland, 2011), which was a finalist for the 2012Mythopoeic Scholarship Awardin Inklings Studies.Hooker is a member of the Walking Tree Publishers Board of Advisors.Hooker is the laureate of theFifth Beyond Bree Award(2012), which was presented atThe Return of the Ringin Loughborough, England. Unlike previousBeyond Bree Awardvotes, this time there was a single clear winner.