Vincent Ferré

Vincent Ferré (born October 23, 1974) is a writer, translator, and Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne in France. He is known for writing scholarly works and giving lectures throughout Europe on J.R.R. Tolkien. At the turn of the century Ferré worked both on translating Tolkien literature to French, under Christian Bourgois, and then on providing the French dubbing of Peter Jackson's 2002 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In the decades following, he supervised or worked on many further French translations, and has contributed essays to Walking Tree Publishers' Cormarë Series.

He founded and runs a personal website, Pour Tolkien, for news and information on editions, Q&A, translations, et cetera.

Ferré is featured throughout François Busnel's documentary J.R.R. Tolkien, the Lord of the Writers. In 2019, he will help orchestrate a Tolkien exhibition held at the National Library of France in Paris.

Books & articles written

 * 2001 - Tolkien: sur les rivages de la Terre du Milieu (Tolkien: On the Shores of Middle-earth)
 * 2003 - With Daniel Lauzon and David Riggs: "Traduire Tolkien en français: On the Translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Works into French and their Reception in France", contributed to Thomas Honegger's Tolkien in Translation (Cormarë Series no. 4)
 * 2004 - "Tolkien, Our Judge of Peter Jackson" in Translating Tolkien: Text and Film (Cormarë Series no. 6)
 * 2004 - Tolkien, trente ans après - 1973-2003 (Tolkien, Thirty Years Later) with Paul Airiau, Hervé Aubron, and Laurent Alibert
 * 2008 - "The Rout of the King: Tolkien's Readings on Arthurian Kingship – Farmer Giles of Ham and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth" in Tolkien's Shorter Works (Cormarë Series no. 17)
 * 2008 - "The Rout of the King: Tolkien's Readings on Arthurian Kings" in Hither Shore volume 4
 * 2008 - "Tolkien, the author and the critic: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and The Lord of the Rings" in The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference
 * 2011 - Compiled Tolkien aujourd'hui (Tolkien Today) with Charles Ridoux and Michaël Devaux
 * 2012 - Dictionnaire Tolkien (Tolkien Dictionary)
 * 2013 - Co-edited Tolkien. la fabrique d'un monde (Tolkien. The Making of a World) with Alexis Brocas - a volume of Magazine Littéraire
 * 2014 - Lire J.R.R. Tolkien (Read J.R.R. Tolkien)
 * 2015 - Articles at www.thetolkienestate.com: "Leaf by Niggle: The Hidden Nucleus", "Is The Lord of the Rings an Adventure Story?", and "Translating Tolkien"

Translations

 * 2002 - Revised translation of Humphrey Carpenter's J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography
 * 2005 - Translated The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien with Delphine Martin
 * 2006 - Translated Alan Lee's The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook with Delphine Martin
 * 2001 - Translated Cor Blok and Pieter Collier's A Tapestry for Tolkien