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Christina Scull is a British researcher and writer born on the 6th of March 1942 in Bristol, England. She is best known for her collaborative scholarship on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, produced jointly with her husband Wayne G. Hammond. Together they have won the Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies five times.
The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies is given by the Mythopoeic Society to recognise outstanding scholarship on the Inklings, the Oxford literary group that included Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. Scull and Hammond won the award in 1996, 1999, 2000, 2006, and 2012.
Scull worked at the London Board of Trade from 1961 to 1971 while earning a Bachelor of Arts in art history and medieval history at Birkbeck College. From 1971 to 1995 she served as Librarian of the Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
Their joint works include J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (1995), The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion (2005), The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide (2006, revised 2017), and The Collected Poems of J. R. R. Tolkien (2024), all published by Houghton Mifflin except where noted.
Christina Scull married Wayne G. Hammond in December 1994. Their first collaborative Tolkien book, J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, was published the following year in 1995.
Scull was educated at Redmaids' High School in Bristol and later completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in art history and medieval history at Birkbeck College in London.