carl f. hostetter

Carl F. Hostetter is a computer scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, and a key figure of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship. He is the author of numerous articles on Tolkienian linguistics, and the editor of two journals on the subject, Vinyar Tengwar (print) and Tengwesti (online). Hostetter has also contributed to the mailing-lists dedicated to Tolkien's languages, Tolklang and Elfling, and has founded another list, Lambengolmor, in 2002. Together with Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, Bill Welden, and Patrick H. Wynne (called by some the "Elfconners"), he has been engaged by Christopher Tolkien in the ordering, editing, and publishing of Tolkien's writings concerning his invented languages. Together with Verlyn Flieger, he is the editor of Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle Earth (Greenwood Press, 2000)

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