Randel Helms
Randel Helms, Ph.D. (born Loyce Randel Helms on November 16, 1942) is a Professor Emeritus teaching English at the Arizona State University, who has written occasionally concerning J.R.R. Tolkien and his writings.
In 1971, Helms wrote "The Structure and Aesthetics of The Lord of the Rings" featured in that year's Mythcon Proceedings, Vol. 1, issue 2, for the Mythopoeic Society.
In 1974 he completed Tolkien's World, a book seeking to "relate Tolkien's scholarly works" to his Middle-earth writings that had been released thus far. Spurred by the publication of The Silmarillion in 1977, Helms then wrote Tolkien and the Silmarils: Imagination and Myth in The Silmarillion, completed in 1981. Both books were published by Houghton Mifflin.
Helms has written other works about the English poet William Blake and the historicity of the Bible.
