Cameron Bourquein has been a lover of Tolkien since the mid 90s when she first read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, and everything by or about Tolkien that she could get her hands on. She is an independent Tolkien scholar who received her BA in 2006 from Anderson University where she studied Theatre, Graphic Design, Sculpture, and Information Systems. Her undergraduate thesis integrated her love of installation sculpture, spatial design, and the photography of Josef Sudek into a one-woman show examining the intersection of external space and internal narrative. In 2005 she started her own graphic design, web design, 3D graphics and animation business, Manifest Reality.