Frank Edward Brightman  Frank Edward Brightman (1856–1932) was an English scholar and liturgist. He was a librarian of Pusey House, Oxford, from 1884 to 1903 and from 1902 until his death a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. He was a strong High Churchman. From 1904 to 1932 he was editor of the "Journal of Theological Studies". Tolkien related a story how Brightman said that he once saw a dragon on the Mount of Olives, but that he "never before his death explained what he meant."