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Carl F. Hostetter

カール・エフ・ホステッター

Kāru F. Hos tetterā

Profile

Gender
Male
Nationality
United States
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
computer scientist, Tolkien scholar
Active Years
1985-2024
Affiliations
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
Memberships
Elvish Linguistic Fellowship
Influenced By
J. R. R. Tolkien

Awards

Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies
2002
Work: Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
Category: Inklings Studies
Organization: Mythopoeic Society
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Nature of Middle-earth

2021 Tolkien scholarship

Edited collection of J.R.R. Tolkien's late writings on the lands, inhabitants, and metaphysics of Middle-earth.

Middle-earthLinguisticsMetaphysics

Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth

2000 Scholarly essays

Collection of essays on The History of Middle-earth, edited with Verlyn Flieger.

Tolkien studiesHistory of Middle-earth

Bibliography

  • Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (2000)
  • Early Quenya Fragments / Early Quenya Grammar (2003)
  • The Collected Vinyar Tengwar (2005)
  • The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)
  • Space applications of artificial intelligence: Goddard Conference (1993-1995)

Legacy

A prominent Tolkien scholar and key figure in the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship, who has edited and published much of J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic material in Vinyar Tengwar and Parma Eldalamberon. Also a computer scientist at NASA.