Wayne Gordon Hammond (born February 11, 1953) is an American scholar known for his research and writings on the works of J. R. R.
[1][2] Together with his wife Christina Scull, a fellow Tolkien scholar, they have jointly won Mythopoeic Scholarship Awards for Inklings Studies five times.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors as an English major at Baldwin-Wallace College in 1975.
[3] In 1994, Hammond married fellow Tolkien scholar Christina Scull, and the two have since collaborated on several projects.
[3] John Garth describes Hammond and Scull as "two highly regarded veterans of Tolkien studies.