Colin Duriez

Colin Duriez (born on July 19, 1947 in Derbyshire) is a British author and literary commentator. He is also a Tolkien scholar, known for writing many books about J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, and for having been a researcher of The Inklings. He has written multiple articles about Middle-earth, Narnia, and Harry Potter.

He makes an appearance in Michael Pellerin's J.R.R. Tolkien: Origins of Middle-earth, a documentary in the second appendix to Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Special Extended Edition).

In 2004 he provided the Foreword to Neil Heim's book Great Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien.

Duriez resides in Leicester, and currently runs his own business, InWriting, which provides publication and writing services.

Books and articles written
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 * "Sub-creation and Tolkien's Theology of Story", featured in the collection Scholarship and Fantasy: The Tolkien Phenomenon (1993)
 * Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings: A Guide to Middle-earth (2001)
 * The Inklings Handbook (2001 - with David Porter)
 * Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship (2003)
 * "The Fairy Story: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis", contributed to Trevor A. Hart and Ivan Khovacs' Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature and Theology (2007)
 * J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend (2012)
 * Bedeviled: Lewis, Tolkien and the Shadow of Evil (2015)
 * The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle (2015)