Nils Ivar Agøy (born 1959) is a Norwegian scholar of J.R.R. Tolkien, history, and theology who co-founded of the Norwegian Tolkien Society, called Arthedain.
He has wrote articles on Tolkien's writings in miscellaneous collections of Tolkien scholarship, and authored a biography of Tolkien, Man of Myths: J.R.R. Tolkien and His Authorship (Mytenes mann: J.R.R. Tolkien og hans forfatterskap), published in 2003. He also had overseen the publication of proceedings from a 1997 Tolkien festival in Oslo, Between Faith and Fiction: Tolkien and the Powers of His World.
He resides in Bø i Telemark, Norway.
Essays & articles[]
- "Quid Hinieldus cum Christo? - New Perspectives on Tolkien's Theological Dilemma and his Sub-Creation Theory", presented at the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference and published in 1995
- "A Question of Style: On Translating The Silmarillion into Norwegian" in Tolkien in Translation (Cormarë Series No. 4, 2003)
- "The Christian Tolkien: A Response to Ronald Hutton" in The Ring and the Cross: Christianity and The Lord of the Rings (2013)
- "Vague or Vivid?: Descriptions in The Lord of the Rings" in Tolkien Studies, vol. 10
- "Why Is Tolkien So Popular?" in The Ring Goes Ever On: Proceedings of the Tolkien 2005 Conference (2008)
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