Oronzo Cilli
ORONZO CILLI is an independent scholar working on Tolkien, and living in Apulia, a region in Southern Italy. He published "Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist" (Luna Press Publishing 2019) with Foreword by Tom Shippey. He edited the second Italian edition of The Annotated Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien (Bompiani, 2004) and published "J.R.R. Tolkien, la prima bibliografia italiana dal 1967 ad oggi" (L’Arco e la corte, 2013), "Tolkien l’esperantista" (Cafagna, 2015), "Tolkien the Esperantist" (Cafagna 2017) with Arden Smith and Patrick Wynne with Foreword by John Garth and "Tolkien e l’Italia" (Il Cerchio, 2016) with Preface by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond. He has spoken at several conferences dedicated to Tolkien and collaborates with ‘Dimensione Cosmica’, the Italian magazine of fictional literature. His articles on Tolkien are translated into English, French, Portuguese and Esperanto. He is the curator of a series of studies on the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Tolkien’s World', for Cafagna Publisher, member of Tolkien Society and is President of the Italian Tolkien Collectors. He runs a website Tolkieniano Collection.
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