Jeff is a self-professed “writer and arranger” of many things. He authors and edits fantasy, science fiction, and—in such works as The Silmarillion Primer—now a dash of “popular scholarship.” A lifelong tabletop gamer, he’s written RPG adventures and campaign lore … Read More
Knewbetta is a walker-between-worlds like Glorfindel. He was raised in a lower income African-American neighborhood of wealthy eastern Long Island. He’s a man from the hood and a Tolkien lore expert. He was a kid taking detention in the library… … Read More
VERLYN FLIEGER is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at the University of Maryland, where for 36 years she taught courses in Tolkien, Medieval Literature, and Comparative Mythology. She is the author of five critical books on the work … Read More
Dr. Corey Olsen is the President of Signum University and Mythgard Institute. In addition to teaching classes on J.R.R. Tolkien, Chaucer, and modern fantasy literature for Signum, Dr. Olsen has extended the concept of the digital classroom to include non-traditional … Read More
Michael D. C. Drout is an American Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of the Medieval at Wheaton College. He is an author and editor specializing in Old English and medieval literature, science fiction and … Read More