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J.R.R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide.

In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent "counter-culture" largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone's, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK's leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century.

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British writer and philologist (1892–1973)

Born 3 January 1892
Died 2 September 1973

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  • Cover of: The Hobbit

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  • Cover of: The Fellowship of Ring

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  • Cover of: The two towers

    Cover of edition triloginomharska0000tolk_r6f9 Cover of edition indebanvandering0000tolk_m7c6 Cover of edition elsenordelosanil0000tolk Cover of edition dwiewieze0000tolk Cover of edition lesdeuxtours0002tolk Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk_o9d8 Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk_w8u6 Cover of edition lesdeuxtours0000tolk_j0m4 Cover of edition elseordelosanill0000jrrt First published in 1954 — 277 editions
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  • Cover of: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of The Lord of the Rings

    Cover of edition elsenordelosanil0003tolk Cover of edition osenhordosanisor0000unse Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk_e6i0 Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk_k6z7 Cover of edition powrotkrola0000tolk Cover of edition leretourduroiles00jrrt Cover of edition isbn_9788595084773 Cover of edition elretornodelrey0000tolk Cover of edition lccn_0345253450195 First published in 1950 — 271 editions
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  • Cover of: The Lord of the Rings

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  • Cover of: The Silmarillion

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  • Cover of: Narn i chîn Húrin: The Children of Húrin

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  • Cover of: Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth

    Cover of edition isbn_9783608984583 Cover of edition unfinishedtaleso0000tolk Cover of edition unfinishedtales00tolk Cover of edition unfinishedtales00jrrt Cover of edition unfinishedtaleso00tolk First published in 1980 — 55 editions
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  • Cover of: Farmer Giles of Ham

    Cover of edition farmergilesofham00tolk First published in 1949 — 54 editions
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  • Cover of: The Father Christmas Letters

    Cover of edition lettersfromfathe0000tolk_h5w0 Cover of edition fatherchristmasl00tolk Cover of edition lettresduprenol0000jrrt Cover of edition lettersfromfathe0000tolk Cover of edition lettersfromfathe0000unse_c1t9 Cover of edition lettersfromfathe0000unse_h8f3 Cover of edition lettersfromfathe00tolk_0 Cover of edition lettersfromfathe00tolk First published in 1976 — 50 editions
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  • Cover of: The Book of Lost Tales: Part I

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  • Cover of: Smith of Wootton Major

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  • Cover of: Tales from the perilous realm

    First published in 1993 — 26 editions
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  • Cover of: The Fall of Gondolin

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  • Cover of: Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Boxed Set

    First published in 1979 — 24 editions
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  • Cover of: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún

    Cover of edition legendofsigurdgu0000tolk_b3h0 Cover of edition legendofsigurdgu0000tolk First published in 2009 — 22 editions
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  • Cover of: Bilbo's Last Song: (At the Grey Havens)

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  • Cover of: The Book of Lost Tales: Part II

    Cover of edition snj.bookoflosttales0002tolk Cover of edition isbn_9783608965902 Cover of edition histoiredelaterr0000jrrt Cover of edition bookoflosttalesp00jrrt Cover of edition bookoflosttales0000tolk_f5a8 First published in 1984 — 22 editions
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  • Cover of: Tree and leaf

    Cover of edition treeleaf00tolk First published in 1964 — 22 editions
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  • Cover of: Roverandom

    Cover of edition roverandom00tolk First published in 1998 — 21 editions
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British writer and philologist (1892–1973)

Born 3 January 1892
Died 2 September 1973

Subjects

Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, English Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, History and criticism, Tolkien, j, r. r. (john ronald ruel), 1892-1973, English literature, Fantasy fiction, Baggins, frodo (fictitious character), fiction, Gandalf (fictitious character), fiction, English Fantasy literature, Fantasy, Poetry, Children's fiction, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Middle earth (imaginary place), Ficción, Imaginary languages in literature, Open Library Staff Picks, Beowulf, Elves

Places

Middle Earth, England, Middle-earth, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Gondor, Isengard, Middle-Earth, Mordor, Rivendell, Tierra Media, Valinor, Bree, Edoras, Fangorn Forest, Iron Hills, Ithilien, Lake-town, Little Kingdom (fictional place), Lonely Mountain, Milwaukee, Minas Tirith, Mirkwood, Misty Mountains, Mount Doom, Númenor

People

J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Gandalf, Elrond, Gollum, Sauron, Bilbo Baggins, Boromir, Frodo Baggins, Gimli, Legolas, Shelob, The Man in the Moon, Tom Bombadil, Túrin, Éomer, Aragorn, Bard the Bowman, Beorn, Celeborn, Christopher Tolkien, Denethor, Elendil, Faramir, Galadriel, Gríma Wormtongue

Time

20th century, First Age, Middle Ages, Prehistory, Second Age, Third Age, 10th century, 1920s, 1920s-1930s, 1920s-1940s, 20e siècle, Early Middle Ages, F.A. 500s, Fictional pre-history, Middle English, 1100-1500, Old English, ca. 450-1100, The End of the Third Age, The First Age, The end of the third age, Third-Age, War of the Ring

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  • John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
  • Dzhon R. R. Tolkin
  • Yue Han Luo Na De Rui Er Tuo Er Jin
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • John R. R. Tolkien
  • Tolkien
  • J. R.R. Tolkien
  • J R R Tolkien
  • J.R.R.Tolkien

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