J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century

J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century is the second major work of Tolkien scholarship by Tom Shippey, published in 2000 by Houghton Mifflin.
It is a study of facets of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion in contexts of the era J.R.R. Tolkien conceived them in. Shippey makes argumentation for Tolkien and his works' distinguished place above their contemporaries. The book earned Shippey the Mythopoeic Society's Scholarship Award for Inkling Studies in 2001.
Author of the Century is technically a "synchronic"Foreword, xxvii follow-up to Shippey's earlier book The Road to Middle-earth, which was a philological analysis of mostly the same content. 
A paperback edition was released in 2002.
==External links==
* Barnes & Noble
*Bookshop.org
*Official page
*Goodreads page
*Review by David Bratman for the Mythopoeic Society
== See also ==
* Green Suns and Faërie: Essays on J.R.R. Tolkien
==References==
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