A. J. R. Russell-Wood A. J. R. Russell-Wood Anthony John R. Russell-Wood (1940 – August 13, 2010) was a leading historian of colonial Brazil, the Portuguese Empire, and the broader Luso-Brazilian world. Russell-Wood was born in Wales. He was educated at Rossall School and Oxford University and became a member of the faculty of the Department of History at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1971; at the time of his death, he was the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History. His first book, "Fidalgos and Philanthropists: The Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Bahia, 1550-1755" (1968), was an ambitious study covering two
The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion It is available in both hardcover and paperback. The "Reader's Companion" was designed to accompany the revised one-volume 50th anniversary edition of "The Lord of the Rings" (Houghton Mifflin, 2004; ). "The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion" won the 2006 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies. The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005) is a nonfiction book written by scholars Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull. It is an annotated reference to J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". Hammond and Scull proceed chapter-by-chapter from the