Dimitra Fimi

Dimitra Fimi, Ph.D., (born June 2, 1978) is a fantasy specialist and Tolkien scholar. She recently became Senior Lecturer in Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at Signum University, founded by Corey Olsen.
She earned a doctorate in English literature in 2005 at Cardiff University, and her thesis, ’Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits’’, was published in 2008, and won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings studies in 2010.
In 2016, Fimi and Andrew Higgins completed the authorized publication A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages, featuring the most focused of J.R.R. Tolkien’s surviving lectures on the creation of languages; this book won the Tolkien Society’s 2017 award for Best Book. In 2021, she was given the Society’s Outstanding Contribution Award as well.
With Thomas Honegger, Fimi co-edited Sub-creating Arda, an especially large installment of the Cormarë Series released in 2019.
==Essays & articles==
*"'Come Sing ye Light Fairy Things Tripping so Gay': Victorian Fairies and the Early Work of J.R.R. Tolkien" in Working with English: Medieval and Modern Language, Literature and Drama, issue 2 (2005)
*"'Mad Elves' and 'Elusive Beauty': Some Celtic Strands of Tolkien's Mythology" in Folklore, issue 117 (2006)
*Entries "Fairyology, Victorian" and "Greece: Reception of Tolkien" in Michael D. C. Drout's J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (2006)
*"Tolkien's '"Celtic" type of legends': Merging Traditions" in Tolkien Studies, volume 6 (2007)
*"A Note on Túrin and Oedipus" in the discontinued Tolkien journal Silver Leaves (2007)
*"Tolkien and Old Norse Antiquity: Real and Romantic Links in Material Culture" in Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture (2007)
*"Material Culture and Materiality in Middle-earth: Tolkien and Archaeology" in Patricia Reynolds' The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference (2008)
*"Teaching and Studying Tolkien" in Mallorn, vol. 46 (2008)
*"Filming Folklore: Adapting Fantasy for the Big Screen through Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings" in Janice Bogstad and Philip Kaveny's Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy (2011)
*"Cantate danzando, fatine leggere. Le fate vittoriane e i primi lavori di J.R.R. Tolkien" in C'era una volta... Lo Hobbit. Alle origini del Signore degli anelli (2012)
*"Tolkien and the Fantasy Tradition" in Critical Insights: The Fantastic (2012)
*"Wildman of the Woods': Inscribing Tragedy on the Landscape of Middle-earth in The Children of Húrin" in J.R.R. Tolkien: the Forest and the City (2013)
*"Tolkien and Folklore: Sellic Spell and The Lay of Beowulf" in Mallorn, vol. 55 (2014)
*"Inventing a whole language" and "Why build new worlds" in The Times Literary Supplement (2017)
*"'Tears are the very wine of blessedness': joyful sorrow in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings" in Death and Immortality in Middle-earth (2017)
*"Language as Communication vs. Language as Art: J.R.R. Tolkien and early 20th-century radical linguistic experimentation" in Journal of Tolkien Research (2018)
*"Was Tolkien really racist?", on The Conversation.com (2018)
*"Linguistics, mythology, and tea - Love, study, friendship and war: J. R. R. Tolkien’s early life" in The Times Literary Supplement (2019)
==External links==
*Personal website
*Faculty page at University of Glasgow
*Faculty page at Signum University
*Twitter page
*Interview by Pieter Collier of the Tolkien Library, September 2012
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