John R. Holmes

John R. Holmes, Ph.D. (born February 1955) is an editorial board member of the Journal of Tolkien Research, and teaches English studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Ohio.
His essays concerning Tolkien and his legendarium to different compilations or journals, including two each in honor of scholars Tom Shippey and Verlyn Flieger. At the virtually held 2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies, Holmes gave a presented a paper concerning Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and alliteration.https://tolkienists.org/international-congress-on-medieval-studies/2022/275/d/
== Essays & articles ==
* "How Tolkien saved his neck: A lusinghe proposition to the Oxford Dante Society" in Mythlore, vol. 40 no. 1 (2021)
* "Fore and Aft: Abstraction in Tolkien’s “Ishness” Designs" in Journal of Tolkien Research: Vol. 7, issue 1
* "Nis me ti hearpun hygi: Harping on One String in Middle-earth" in Music in Tolkien's Work and Beyond (2019)
* "'A Green Great Dragon' and J.R.R. Tolkien’s 'Native Language'" in John D. Rateliff's A Wilderness of Dragons: Essays in Honor of Verlyn Flieger (2018)
* Section on The Lord of the Rings in Stuart D. Lee's A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien (2014 / 2022)
* "Counseling the Scippigræd: How T.A. Shippey Taught Us to Read" in Tolkien in the New Century: Essays in Honor of Tom Shippey (2014)
* "A Metre I Invented": Tolkien's Clues to Tempo in "Errantry"" in Tolkien's Poetry (2013)
* "'Like Heathen Kings': Religion as Palimpsest in Tolkien's fiction" in Paul E. Kerry's The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings (2013)
* "'Inside a Song': Tolkien's Phonaesthetics" in Bradford Lee Eden's Middle-earth Minstrel (2010)
* “Tolkien, Dustsceawung, and the Gnomic Tense: Is Timelessness Medieval or Victorian?” in Jane Chance and Alfred K. Siewers' Tolkien’s Modern Middle Ages (2005)
* "Oaths and oathbreaking: analogues of Old English Comitatus in Tolkien's myth" in Jane Chance's Tolkien and the Invention of Myth: A Reader (2004)
* “The Burrahobbit: Semantic Displacement in J.R.R. Tolkien" in Deborah Bice's Elsewhere: Selected Essays from the “20th Century Fantasy Literature: from Beatrix to Harry” Literary Conference (2003)
== External links ==
* Faculty page
** Curriculum Vitae
==References==
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