Jason Fisher

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Jason Fisher, writer and software developer from the United States, runs the blog Lingwë - Musings of a Fish (with content on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, the Inklings, J.K. Rowling, and fantasy literature in general; language, linguistics, and philology; comparative mythology and folklore, etc.)

In 2010, Fisher was appointed editor of Mythprint, the monthly bulletin of the Mythopoeic Society.

Bibliography, selected

Articles

• 2006: J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment
  • "Family Trees"
  • "Fëanor"
  • "Galadriel"
  • "Greek Gods"
  • "Manuscripts by Tolkien"
  • "Mythology for England"
  • "Palantíri"
  • "Phial"
  • "Riddles"
  • "Sauron Defeated"
  • "Silmarils"
  • "Taniquetil"
• 2006: Tolkien and Modernity 1
  • "'Man does as he is when he may do as he wishes': The Perennial Modernity of Free Will"
• 2007: The Silmarillion: Thirty Years On
  • "From Mythopoeia to Mythography: Tolkien, Lönnrot, And Jerome."
• 2008: Tolkien Studies: Volume 5
  • "Three Rings for — Whom Exactly? And Why? Justifying the Disposition of the Three Elven Rings"
• 2010: Mythlore 111/112
  • "Dwarves, Spiders, and Murky Woods: J.R.R. Tolkien's Wonderful Web of Words."
• 2010: Mythprint (June issue, Vol. 47, No. 6, #335, on pp. 3–4)
  • "Interview with Simon Tolkien"
• 2010: Middle-earth Minstrel
  • "Horns of Dawn: The Tradition of Alliterative Verse in Rohan"

Reviews

• 2008: Mythprint April/May (45:4-5, #313-314)
  • The Hobbit 70th Anniversary Edition by JRR Tolkien"
• 2009: Mythprint March/April (Volume 46:3-4, #324-325)
  • "Tales Before Narnia edited by Douglas A. Anderson"

External links

• Lingwë - Musings of a Fish
• Mythprint (official website)