Green Suns and Faerie: Essays on Tolkien
Verlyn Fliegeris a professor of English at the University of Maryland where she teaches courses on Tolkien, medieval and modern literature, and comparative mythology. She has written three books on Tolkien:Splintered Light, A Question of Time, and Interrupted Music(all published by The Kent State University Press). She has also edited a critical edition of Tolkien's novellaSmith of Wootton Major,and an expanded edition with notes and commentary of Tolkien's most influential theoretical essay, "On Fairy-Stories."