Andoni Cossio
Assistant Professor of English, University of the Basque Country (EHU)
Research Affiliate, University of Glasgow
andoni.cossiogarrido@glasgow.ac.uk
Andoni Cossio is Assistant Professor of English at the University of the Basque Country (EHU). He is also Research Affiliate at the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, and has recently been elected to a Visiting Fellowship at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford. His writing on Middle English works, William Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis, and mostly J. R. R. Tolkien has been published in indexed journals and in peer-reviewed edited collections of essays. Cossio is currently finishing a monograph on the trees of Middle-earth while preparing, in collaboration with Nelson Goering, an edition of one of Tolkien’s unpublished translations. He is, together with Dimitra Fimi, the recipient of The Tolkien Society’s Best Article Award (2025).
Tolkien-related Publications:
“Academic Life: The Scholar.” The Oxford Handbook of J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Luke Shelton and Dimitra Fimi, Oxford University Press, forthcoming. [With Nelson Goering]
“A Mythology for the World.” Amon Hen: The Bulletin of The Tolkien Society, issue 314, The Tolkien Society, August 2025, p. 9.
“J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘Gawain’s Leave-Taking’: A Composite Translation of ‘Against My Will I Take My Leave’ (Vernon MS 407v) and a Door to Further Criticism.” Studia Neophilologica, advance online publication, 2024, pp. 1-7, https://doi.org/10.1080/00393274.2024.2417924.
“‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, J. R. R. Tolkien’s 1953 W. P. Ker Memorial Lecture: An Updated Chronology and Related Findings.” English Studies, vol. 105, issue 6, 2024, pp. 773-791, https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2024.2344915. [With Dimitra Fimi]
“The Relevance of Rivendell’s Growing Cultural Value from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, vol. 37, no. 3, 2024, pp. 433-435, https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2023.2209862.
“The Unpublished ‘Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg’ by C. S. Lewis: A Critical Edition.” Journal of Inklings Studies, vol. 14, issue 1, 2024, pp. 62-68, https://doi.org/10.3366/ink.2024.0216.
“Tolkien, Shakespeare, Trees, and The Lord of the Rings.” The Explicator, vol. 82, issue 1, 2024, pp. 1-5, https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2024.2337093.
“La evolución de la perspectiva ecológica de J. R. R. Tolkien a través de la representación de los árboles y los bosques: De El Hobbit a El Señor de los Anillos” [“The Evolution of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Ecological Perspective through the Portrayal of Trees and Forests: From The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings”]. Tolkien: Un clásico de nuestros días [Tolkien: An All-Time Great Writer in Our Times], edited by José María Miranda Boto, Legendaria Ediciones, 2024, pp. 153-162.
“Sir Orfeo as the Source for the Medieval Romance Topoi of Abduction and Otherworld Rampant within The Hobbit’s Mirkwood.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, vol. 36, no. 4, 2023, pp. 572-587, https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2021.1967105.
“The Missing Letters J. R. R. Tolkien Received from Derek J. Price and R. M. Wilson: Addendum to ‘Further Notes on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Photostats of The Equatorie of the Planetis (MS Peterhouse 75.I).’” SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, vol. 28, 2023, pp. 97-106, https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.28.2023.97-106.
“Addenda: One Middle English Manuscript and Four Editions of Medieval Works Known to J. R. R. Tolkien and What They Reveal.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, vol. 36, no. 2, 2023, pp. 164-171, https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2021.1932406.
“The Forest Haven Episode: How Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s Hautdesert Shaped The Lord of the Rings’ Caras Galadhon.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 29, no. 4, 2022, pp. 1306-1327, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa193.
“Further Notes on J. R. R. Tolkien’s Photostats of The Equatorie of the Planetis (MS Peterhouse 75.I).” SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature, vol. 27, 2022, pp. 166-176, https://doi.org/10.17811/selim.27.2022.166-176.
“Oral Tradition in The Lord of the Rings.” Tolkien in the 21st Century: Reading, Reception, Reinterpretation, edited by Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022, pp. 90-107, http://hdl.handle.net/10810/69692.
-Facing-page translation (Spanish) published in: “Tradición oral en El Señor de los Anillos.” Nolmë, no. 6, Sociedad Tolkien Española, 2023, pp. 34-53.
“Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer, by John M. Bowers.” English Studies, vol. 102, issue 8, 2021, pp. 1187-1190, https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2021.1970331.
“The Voice of Nature in Middle-earth through the Lens of Testimony.” Hither Shore, Interdisciplinary Journal on Modern Fantasy Literature: Literary Worldbuilding, vol. 14, 2020, pp. 287-298.
-Updated version reprinted in: Nólë Hyarmenillo: An Anthology of Iberian Scholarship on Tolkien, edited by Nuno Simões Rodrigues et al., Walking Tree Publishers, 2022, pp. 99-114, http://hdl.handle.net/10810/70947.
“Tolkien’s Library: An Annotated Checklist by Oronzo Cilli.” Mythlore: A Journal of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, no. 136, vol. 38, issue 2, 2020, pp. 195-204, https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol38/iss2/17/.
“El amor de Tolkien por las palabras plasmado en la cuidada retórica de supervivencia de Bilbo Bolsón” [“Tolkien’s Love for Words Reflected in Bilbo Baggins’s Meticulous Survival Rhetoric”]. Estel, vol. 93, Sociedad Tolkien Española, 2020, pp. 38-42, http://hdl.handle.net/10810/61053.
“Tree and Forest Models in Victorian/Edwardian Fantasy: MacDonald, Morris and Grahame as Triggers of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Creativity.” Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy, edited by Mario S. Ming Kong et al., CRC Press, 2019, pp. 411-417, https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429297755-69.
“Victorious Nature in Anglo-Saxon England and Fantasy Middle-earth.” Intelligence, Creativity and Fantasy, edited by Mario S. Ming Kong et al., CRC Press, 2019, pp. 405-409, https://doi.org/10.1201/9780429297755-68.
“Book Review: Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.” Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research, vol. 6, issue 2, 2019, pp. 65-68. http://journal.finfar.org/articles/1950.pdf.
-Translated version (Spanish) published in: “Tolkien: Creador de la Tierra Media.” Dragón Verde, issue 8, Sociedad Tolkien Colombia Orodruin, 2020, pp. 14-17.
Academic profile and full list of publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2745-5104; http://ehu.academia.edu/AndoniCossio.
