Jason Fisher

Jason Fisher is an American writer, literary reviewer and Tolkien scholar, known for compiling Tolkien and the Study of His Sources in 2010 - 2011. He runs his personal website of blogs and research, "Lingwë - Musings of a Fish"

Fisher does independent research and writes studies on Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, the Inklings, many other authors such as Neil Gaiman, and comparative mythology. A prolific lecturer on Tolkien, he has given talks at universities, Inkling Conferences, and Mythopoeic Society Conferences, having served many positions in the Mythopoeic Society since 2007 such as vice president, conference committee chair and publications editor, and board member of their press. He also oversaw their monthly journal Mythprint for four years.

For five consecutive years, Fisher was awarded with Best Scholar Paper at the Annual C.S. Lewis and Inklings Conference from 2010 to 2014. He has contributed dozens of essays to scholarly compilations and periodicals, such as J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment (2006), Tolkien and Modernity 1 (2006) of the Cormarë Series, Tolkien in the New Century (2014), Middle-earth and Beyond (2011), Bradford Lee Eden's Middle-earth Minstrel (2010), Tolkien Studies, Mythprint, and Mythlore.

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Fisher resides in Washington, U.S.A, and lived formerly in Texas.