Colin Duriez
Colin Duriez (born 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 appears 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 Extended Edition, as well as J.R.R. Tolkien: The Legacy of Middle-earth, found later on. He was also interviewed for Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the Quest for Meaning (2017).
In 2004, he provided the Foreword to Neil Heims' book Great Writers: J.R.R. Tolkien.
Duriez resides in Leicester, and runs his own business, InWriting. He is a tour guide at The Kilns in Oxford, the home of C.S. Lewis.
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See a full bibliography here.
- "Sub-creation and Tolkien's Theology of Story" in Scholarship and Fantasy: The Tolkien Phenomenon (1991)
- Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings: A Guide to Middle-earth and The Inklings Handbook (with David Porter) (2001)
- Tolkien and C.S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship (2003)
- "The Fairy Story: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis", in Trevor A. Hart and Ivan Khovacs' Tree of Tales: Tolkien, Literature, and Theology (2007)
- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend (2012)
- The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle (2015)
- Bedeviled: Lewis, Tolkien and the Shadow of Evil and The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle (2015)
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