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Welcome to my website. Here you will be able to find out about what I’ve written, and read some of it, including articles and papers previously published elsewhere as well as material published for the first time.
If you have come here because you are interested in the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, you will find original biographical research and literary opinion beyond what appears in my award-winning book, Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth. You will be able to read more about this book and see what others have said about it here.
More of my writings on Tolkien and other matters will be found on the articles page and via my list of publications, including book reviews for The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Observer, the London Evening Standard and others. My article on Tolkien, Exeter College and the Great War which previously appeared on this welcome page can now be found here.
Future additions to the site will draw on my extensive researches into Tolkien's circle, particularly R. Q. Gilson, G. B. Smith, Christopher Wiseman and other members of the T.C.B.S. (Tea Club and Barrovian Society); and the military units which feature prominently in Tolkien and the Great War – the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers, the 11th Suffolks (the Cambridgeshire Battalion) and the 19th Lancashire Fusiliers (the Salford Pals).
I have given talks on Tolkien at the National Army Museum and elsewhere, and I have been interviewed for print, internet, radio, television, and DVD. I will be delighted to consider requests for further engagements and interviews, which can be addressed to me here.