Robert Field Tredray has been a Tolkien fan ever since he first read The Lord of the Rings in 1964, in the summer between his junior and senior years in High School. He received the Master of Arts degree in English from Northeastern Illinois University with a concentration in Medieval Literature. He has presented papers to the Mythopoeic Society, the Novus et Antiquus Conference, and the International Congress on Medieval Studies. He now lives in Robbinsdale, MN.