John D. Rateliff

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John D. Rateliff (born 1958 in Magnolia , Arkansas ) is an American writer and author of PC role-playing games .

Life

Rateliff grew up in Arkansas and was already writing a review of The Hobbit story for the school newspaper in 9th grade . Early on he began to research all publications by the writer and philologist JRR Tolkien . During his time at Southern Arkansas University , he was able to ensure that a class on Tolkien research was added to his curriculum . He moved to Wisconsin in 1981 to study Tolkien's manuscripts at Marquette University . His Ph.D. he received in 1990 with the writing “Beyond the fields we know”. The short stories of Lord Dunsany about the Irish writer Lord Edward Plunkett Dunsany and his short stories. He is considered a Tolkien expert and has organized two Tolkien conferences. During his time at the university he compiled documents which Christopher Tolkien edited for Volumes VI through IX of The History of Middle-earth series . He has written articles on the classics of fantasy literature and has contributed to works on the Tolkien Legendarium and the commemorative publication The Lord of the Rings: 1954-2004 for Richard E. Blackwelder .

Rateliff's research on the literature of Tolkien and Dunsany served as the basis for his editorial and creative collaboration with TSR, Inc., where he contributed to the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons . He worked for TSR from 1991 to 1996, after the takeover worked for Wizards of the Coast until 2001 and finally for Hasbro / WotC from 2003 to 2005 .

Rateliff has published several essays on Tolkien research in journals such as the Tolkien Studies or the Tolkien Legendarium. He lectures on the origins and connections between the story of The Hobbit and Tolkien's mythology, such as 2013 on the 75th anniversary of the story's appearance at Valparaiso University in Indiana .

Works

  • She and Tolkien . In: Mythlore . tape 8 , no. 28 . Mythopoeic Society [US], 1981, ISSN  0146-9339 (About the similarities of the "Ayesha" in the work She. A History of Adventure . From the year 1887 by H. Rider Haggard and the figure of the Elven Princess " Galadriël ").
  • “Beyond the fields we know”. The short stories of Lord Dunsany . Marquette University, Wisconsin 1990, OCLC 25756353 (PhD Thesis).
  • John D. Rateliff: Early Versions of Farmer Giles of Ham . In: Leaves from the tree. JRR Tolkien's shorter fiction . The Society, London 1991, ISBN 0-905520-03-3 , pp. 45-48 .
  • The Lost Road, The Dark Tower, and The Notion Club Papers: Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad . In: Contributions to the study of science-fiction and fantasy (=  Tolkien's legendarium. Essays on The history of Middle-earth ). tape 86 , 2000, ISSN  0193-6875 , p. 199-218 .
  • The secret of the stone circle (=  Dungeons & dragons . No. 8454 ). Feder & Schwert, Mannheim 2003, ISBN 3-933171-46-6 (English: The standing stone . RPG).
  • Song and silence. Expansion rules for bards and villains (=  Dungeons & dragons . No. 8474 ). Amigo, Spiel- und Freizeit-GmbH, Dietzenbach 2003, ISBN 3-933171-49-0 (role play, with David Noonan).
  • The History of The Hobbit . Part 1 and 2. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 2007, ISBN 978-0-618-96847-3 (Including JRR Tolkien: The Hobbit ).
    • Mr. Baggins . The History of The Hobbit. Part 1. HarperCollins, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-00-723555-1 .
    • Return to the end of the bag. The History of The Hobbit. Part 2. HarperCollins, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-00-725066-0 .
  • Anchoring the Myth: The Impact of The Hobbit on Tolkien's Legendarium . In: Bradford Lee Eden (ed.): The Hobbit and Tolkien's Mythology. Essays on Revisions and Influences . McFarland, Jefferson, North Carolina 2014, ISBN 978-0-7864-7960-3 , pp. 6-19 ( books.google.de ).

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Charles Adolph Huttar, Peter J. Schakel (ed.): The Rhetoric of Vision. Essays on Charles Williams . Bucknell University Press, Lewisburg, PA 1996, ISBN 978-0-8387-5314-9 , pp. 334 (English, books.google.de ).
  2. ↑ John D. Rateliff. In: co.uk. HarperCollins UK, accessed April 3, 2017 .
  3. ↑ About John D. Rateliff. sacnothscriptorium.com, 2011, accessed April 3, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Michael Martinez: An Interview with John Rateliff. xenite.org, October 21, 2011, accessed April 3, 2017 .
  5. ^ Valpo to Host Celebration of Tolkien and the 75th Anniversary of 'The Hobbit'. valpo.edu, 2013, accessed on April 4, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ The Mythopoeic Society: Mythopoeic Award Winners. In: mythsoc.org. Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Rateliff, John D.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and role-play author
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Magnolia , Arkansas