Tolkien's conviction that the poem dates to the 8th century is defended by Tom Shippey ( 2007 ).

Tom Shippey in The Road to Middle-earth says how “ Boethian ” much of the treatment of evil is in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

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The scholar Tom Shippey asks a perennial question of science fiction: " What is its relationship to fantasy fiction, is its readership still dominated by male adolescents, is it a taste which will appeal to the mature but non-eccentric literary mind?

Tom Shippey in his essay does not dispute this answer but identifies and discusses the essential differences that exists between a science fiction novel and one written outside the field.

At Rivendell he, using what critic Tom Shippey describes as " slightly wooden magniloquence ", sets forth Gondor's claim to primacy in the War of the Ring.

Richard Utz and Tom Shippey ( Turnhout: Brepols, 1998 ), pp. 263 – 86.

All these words may derive from a shared Indo-European mythological concept ( as Tolkien himself speculated, as cited by Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-earth, 45 ).

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Readers have debated at length the extent and meaning of the seemingly racist imagery in Tolkien's writings, including Michael D. C. Drout, Tom Shippey, Stephen Shapiro.

Richard Utz and Tom Shippey ( Turnhout: Brepols, 1998 ), ISBN 2-503-50166-4.

* Tom Shippey page at Saint Louis University

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Tom Shippey has identified the concept of Tolkien's " Light elves " and " Dark elves " as being inspired by the medieval Icelandic Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson which distinguishes between ljósálfar ( light-elves ) and dökkálfar ( dark-elves ).

Tom Shippey cites this 1923 poem and its mate, " The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon " ( also from 1923, also subsequently included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ) as typical examples of Tolkien's working strategy for reconstructing philological information about sources now lost.

by George E. Slusser & Tom Shippey.

by George E. Slusser & Tom Shippey.

* 2001-J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey

* 2008-The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm's Mythology of the Monstrous by Tom Shippey

Scholar Tom Shippey believed that Shea was too familiar to those who had read The Lord of the Rings: he found that Shea and Flick were " analogues " for the hobbits of Tolkien's stories.

And Miami's " No-Name Defense " ( a nickname inspired by Dallas Cowboys head coach Tom Landry when he could not recall the names of any Dolphins defenders just before Super Bowl VI ), led by future hall of fame linebacker Nick Buoniconti, allowed the fewest points in the league during the regular season ( 171 ).

In his authoritative ' Godliness and Good Learning ' ( Cassell 1961 ), D. H. Newsome points out that muscular Christianity developed after Arnold's time at Rugby and that " although ' Tom Brown's School Days ' is one of the earliest examples of the delight in athleticism, the ideal there expressed is not that of Arnold but of Thomas Hughes author " ( page 80 ).

However, as critic Francis Molson points out, it is not explained whether this Tom Swift is the grandson of the famous Tom Swift of the first series or still the Tom Swift, Jr., of the second.

Speculation as to the size of the original puts it somewhere on the order of a work of thousands of pages, and reference points for length range from Tom Jones to In Search of Lost Time.

Tom Ray, Russ Dyson, and Keith Darling helped at various points.

In the film version of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead the two lead characters play the game Questions in a Real Tennis court, scoring points as if playing the game.

The show's title character retrieves the code by achieving a score of 2, 000, 000 points after realizing that " the mathematical pattern underlying the game is the same " as Rush's 1981 hit " Tom Sawyer ".

Scott Walker is the only governor in American history to win a recall election retaining his seat after defeating Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett by seven percentage points.

Eric Vail was the team's top goal scorer with 174 while Tom Lysiak led with 431 points.

In his book on Hitchcock's 1958 film Vertigo, Charles Barr points out that the film's title sequence and several shots seem to have inspired moments in Peeping Tom.

After beating Gloucester 42 – 26 in the Quarter final of the Amlin cup scoring 5 tries including a hat-trick from winger Tom Varndell, Wasps lost 15 – 18 at home to Cardiff Blues in the Semi final with Dave Walder kicking all of Wasps points with 5 penalties.

The 1950 Rams scored an ( at that time ) NFL record 466 points ( 38. 8 per game-which is still a record ) with a high octane passing attack featuring Tom Fears and Elroy " Crazy Legs " Hirsch.

* Tom Zirbel, professional bicycle racer and 2009 USA Cycling NRC points champion who signed to Union Cycliste Internationale professional team, Garmin-Transitions for the 2010 season.

Following a disappointing beginning of the 2007 – 08 Superliga season with only 5 points in seven matches, manager Tom Køhlert made it clear in August 2007 that the Danish Cup now had a higher priority for the club.

The match, held at Lansdowne Road, was heading for a draw with the score at six points each, when Tom Kiernan won the match for Ireland with a late penalty.

Tom Williams and Chris Robshaw scored the tries and Nick Evans scored 20 points through penalties and a conversion.

Tom Gleisner, a writer for both series, points this out in The Late Show DVD audio commentary.

Tom Watson, for example, finished in the top 15 of eight major championships between 1987 and 1989, yet had a " total points " ranking of just 40th ; his ranking became a more realistic 20th when based on " average points ".

He was on course to finish 2nd in the championship behind Dutchman Tom Coronel, but had to miss the last 3 rounds of the Championship due to budget issues ( the last round had double points, so it was effectively 4 rounds / a maximum of 80 points missed out on ).

Broncos linebacker Tom Jackson's 2 interceptions and a fumble return set up 17 Denver points as the Broncos defeated the Steelers.