Reception of J. R. R. Tolkien for literary form." Jared Lobdell, evaluating the reception of Tolkien in the mainstream literary establishment (as opposed to dedicated Tolkien scholarship), cited the widely quoted negative critique by Wilson and the partly favourable one by Edwin Muir, concluding that "no 'mainstream critic' appreciated "The Lord of the Rings" or indeed was in a position to write criticism on it — most being unsure what it was and why readers liked it." Studies of Tolkien's fiction were the origin of Signum University in 2012. Marxist criticism of Tolkien is divided. Some have vilified Tolkien for his social conservatism, and for the
U. S. R. Murty U. S. R. Murty Uppaluri Siva Ramachandra Murty, or U. S. R. Murty (as he prefers to write his name), is a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo. U. S. R. Murty received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, with a thesis on extremal graph theory; his advisor was C. R. Rao. Murty is well known for his work in matroid theory and graph theory, and mainly for being a co-author with J. A. Bondy of a textbook on graph theory. Murty has served as a managing editor and co-editor-in-chief