Robert Foster (writer)

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Robert Foster (* 1949 in Brooklyn , New York ) is an American English professor and writer .

Life

Robert Foster was born in Brooklyn, New York . He studied English and Medieval Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Dr. Foster worked as an assistant professor of English at Rutgers College , New Brunswick , New Jersey . He became known to a wider audience through his Middle-earth lexicon, which explains the terms around the stories of the English fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien , which are related to his world Middle-earth . He served as an advisor to the Tolkien Society of America. The creation of the lexicon was a result of his occupation there with the etymology of the names in Tolkien's books.

plant

The Great Middle-earth Lexicon gives an overview of the names of the locations, people and terms that were published in the books The Lord of the Rings , The Hobbit and The Silmarillion on the mythology of Middle-earth. There is also detailed background information and explanations of words for important areas, and Appendix A with the time divisions, ages and calendars in Tolkien's world or Appendix B with detailed family trees and Appendix C with a Tengwar table .

literature

  • Robert Foster: A guide to Middle-earth. in: The voyager series. and The anthem series. Mirage, Baltimore 1971, OCLC 205016 .
  • Robert Foster: The Complete Guide to Middle-Earth: from the Hobbit to the Silmarillion. Ballantine Books, New York 1978, ISBN 978-0-345-27520-2 .
  • Robert Foster: The Great Middle-earth Lexicon. From the American by Helmut W. Pesch . Bastei-Lübbe, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-404-20453-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information about the author in the Middle Earth Lexicon
  2. ↑ Robert Foster short biography on goodreads.com or information on Robert Foster and the lexicon on lehmanns.de
personal data
SURNAME Foster, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American English professor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York