Remembering J.S. Ryan
16th March 2026: Remembering J.S. Ryan
J.S. Ryan, scholar, and student under J.R.R. Tolkien at Merton College, passed away in July 2022.
An obituary by Elizabeth Hale was published in VII: Journal of the Marion E. Wade Center, Vol. 41 (2025), pp. 5-6 (available as pdf here).
A shorter obituary was published on the Tolkien and Fantasy blog (original here, pdf version here).
A further obituary with tributes was published by Pulse news (original here, pdf version here).
Ryan and Walking Tree Publishers
Two of Ryan's works on Tolkien scholarship are published by Walking Tree Publishers:
Tolkien's View: Windows into his World (2009)
and
In the Nameless Wood: Explorations in the Philological Hinterland of Tolkien's Literary Creations (2013)
(to link to this announcement: http://www.walking-tree.org/authors/rip-j-s-ryan.php )
