Samuel Sant’Ana has a MPhil in Literary Studies from the State University of São Paulo (UNESP/Brazil) and is currently doing a PhD on Tolkien and Medieval Literature in England, which has led him to spend a term at the University of Oxford as a recognised student by the English Faculty. He is a member of the Tolkien Society and one of the founders of the ENT (Tolkienian Narrative Studies), a Brazilian study group devoted to the works of the author.