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Charles Jared Lobdell (29 November 1937 – 22 March 2019) was one of the first Tolkien scholars. He is best known for some thirty academic books on American history and the Inklings including Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Charles Williams.[1]

Biography

Jared Lobdell was born to Charles and Jane Elizabeth (Hopkins) Lobdell in New York. He was educated at Yale University. He died at Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.[2][1]

Works

  • A Tolkien Compass (editor) (Open Court, 1975)
  • England and Always: Tolkien's World of the Rings (Eerdmans, 1981)
  • The Detective Fiction Reviews of Charles Williams, 1930-1935 (McFarland, 2003)
  • The World of the Rings: Language, Religion, and Adventure in Tolkien (Open Court, 2004) (an expansion of England and Always)
  • The Scientifiction Novels of C. S. Lewis: Space and Time in the Ransom Stories (McFarland, 2004)
  • The Rise of Tolkienian Fantasy (Open Court, 2005)
  • Eight Children in Narnia: The Making of a Children's Story (Open Court, 2016)

References

  1. ^ a b West, Richard C. (October 2019). "In Memoriam: Jared Lobdell". Mythlore. 38 (1): Article 28.
  2. ^ "Dr. Jared Charles Lobdell". Boyer. 2019. Retrieved 23 January 2021.