Hamish Williams

Further information: Tolkien and the classical world

Hamish G. D. Williams gained his PhD at the University of Cape Town in 2017; his thesis was titled "The Typical and Connotative Character of Xeinoi Situations across the Apologue : Three Studies in Repetition". He then lectured at Leiden University, moving to the University of Jena as a research fellow in 2019. In 2021 he became a fellow at the Polish Institute for Advanced Studies. Alongside this, in 2020 he joined the faculty at the University of Groningen, where he is a scholar of classical reception and fantasy. ^[1]

He is known for his 2021 edited collection Tolkien and the Classical World ^[2] about classical influences on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings. ^{[3] [4] [5]} He has written research articles on Tolkien studies, on classical reception, and on fantasy literature. ^{[1] [6]} His 2023 monograph J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics ^[7] has been welcomed as insightful and well-conceived. ^[8]

Books

Written

• Williams, Hamish (2021). The Southern Tide. Ranger. ISBN   978-9492469304. (fiction)
• Williams, Hamish (2023). J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN   978-1350241480.

Edited

• Williams, Hamish, ed. (2021). Tolkien and the Classical World. Zurich: Walking Tree Publishers. ISBN   978-3-905703-45-0.
• Williams, Hamish; Clare, Ross, eds. (2022). The Ancient Sea: The Utopian and Catastrophic in Classical Narratives and their Reception. Liverpool University Press. ISBN   978-1802079227.

References

1. "H.G.D. (Hamish) Williams, PhD". University of Groningen . Retrieved 23 February 2025.
2. Williams 2021.
3. Houghton, John (2020). "Tolkien and the Classical World (2021), edited by Hamish Williams"". Journal of Tolkien Research. 11 (2). Article 4.
4. Parker, Victor (2022). "Tolkien and the Classical World ed. by Hamish Williams, and: Tolkien and the Classics ed. by Roberto Arduini". Tolkien Studies . 19 (2): 205–211. doi:10.1353/tks.2022.0020. ISSN   1547-3163. S2CID   258432978.
5. Swain, Larry J. (2022). "Tolkien and the Classical World, edited by Hamish Williams". Mythlore . 40 (2). Article 26.
6. "Hamish Williams". Google Scholar. Retrieved 23 February 2025.
7. Williams 2023.
8. Delbrooke-Jones, Beren-Dain (2024). "Review of Williams, Hamish. (2023) J.R.R. Tolkien's Utopianism and the Classics. London: Bloomsbury Academic" (PDF). Rosetta (29). doi:10.25500/ROSETTA.BHAM.00000034.

Hamish Williams
Born	1988 Cape Town, South Africa
Occupation	Classical studies
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cape Town

v t e J. R. R. Tolkien
Bibliography Letters
Poetry and songs	Songs for the Philologists (1936) " Bagme Bloma " The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son (1953) "A Walking Song" (1954) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1962) "Errantry" "Fastitocalon" "The Sea-Bell" "The Man in the Moon Stayed Up Too Late" The Road Goes Ever On (1967) Bilbo's Last Song (1974) The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (2009) The Fall of Arthur (2013) The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien (2024) List of Tolkien's alliterative verse
Fiction	The Hobbit (1937) "Leaf by Niggle" (1947) The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (1945) Farmer Giles of Ham (1949) The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) The Two Towers (1954) The Return of the King (1955) Tree and Leaf (1964) The Tolkien Reader (1966) Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
Posthumous fiction	The Father Christmas Letters (1976) The Silmarillion (1977) Unfinished Tales (1980) Mr. Bliss (1982) The History of Middle-earth (1983–1996) The Book of Lost Tales The Lays of Beleriand The Shaping of Middle-earth The Lost Road and Other Writings The History of The Lord of the Rings Morgoth's Ring The War of the Jewels The Peoples of Middle-earth Roverandom (1998) The Children of Húrin (2007) The History of The Hobbit (2007) The Story of Kullervo (2015) Beren and Lúthien (2017) The Fall of Gondolin (2018) The Nature of Middle-earth (2021) The Fall of Númenor (2022)
Academic works	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Middle English text, 1925) "The Devil's Coach Horses" (1925) "Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad" (1929) "Sigelwara Land" (1932–34) "Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" (1934) "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936) "On Fairy-Stories" (1939) Eucatastrophe "On Translating Beowulf " (1940) Sir Orfeo (1944) Ancrene Wisse (1962) "English and Welsh" (1963) Jerusalem Bible (as translator and lexicographer, 1966)
Posthumous academic	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo (translations, 1975) Exodus (1981) Finn and Hengest (1982) The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays (1983) Beowulf and the Critics (2002) Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary with "Sellic Spell" (2014) A Secret Vice (2016)
Scholars (works)	Biographers Humphrey Carpenter J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977, authorized biography) John Garth Tolkien and the Great War The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien Catherine McIlwaine Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth Charles Moseley Christian Stratford Caldecott Matthew T. Dickerson Colin Duriez Peter Kreeft Holly Ordway Joseph Pearce Fleming Rutledge Ralph C. Wood Literary critics Douglas A. Anderson Nicholas Birns Bradley J. Birzer Janice Bogstad & Philip Kaveny Picturing Tolkien David Bratman Janet Brennan Croft Tolkien on Film Patrick Curry Bradford Lee Eden Dimitra Fimi Tolkien, Race and Cultural History Jason Fisher Verlyn Flieger Interrupted Music A Question of Time Splintered Light Michael Foster Nick Groom Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide Randel Helms Thomas Honegger Charles A. Huttar Paul H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth Stuart D. Lee The Keys of Middle-earth Jared Lobdell A Tolkien Compass John D. Rateliff Robin Anne Reid Brian Rosebury Tolkien: A Cultural Phenomenon Amy H. Sturgis Anna Vaninskaya Richard C. West Elizabeth Whittingham Rose Zimbardo Understanding The Lord of the Rings Linguists Anthony Appleyard Helge Fauskanger Carl F. Hostetter Tom Loback David Salo Arden R. Smith Allan Turner Medievalists, Classicists Marjorie Burns Perilous Realms Jane Chance Tolkien and the Invention of Myth Tolkien's Art: 'A Mythology for England' Michael D. C. Drout J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia Jonathan Evans Vincent Ferré Gergely Nagy Tom Shippey J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century The Road to Middle-Earth Elizabeth Solopova Sandra Ballif Straubhaar Hamish Williams Tolkien and the Classical World Popular Lin Carter Robert Foster Glen GoodKnight Michael Martinez Charles Noad J. E. A. Tyler
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