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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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Born 3 January 1892
Died 2 September 1973

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  • Cover of: HOBBIT BIRTHDAY BOOK

    First published in 1991 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Realms of Tolkien: images of Middle-earth.

    First published in 1996 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Battle of Maldon: Together with the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

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  • Cover of: One-hundred-and-one read-aloud classics

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  • Cover of: Farmer Giles of Ham / The adventures of Tom Bombadil

    First published in 1975 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Contes et légendes inachevés: Deuxième Age

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    First published in 2001 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: History of Middle-Earth: Morgoth's Ring, the War of the Jewels, the Peoples of Middle-Earth and Index

    First published in 2023 — 4 editions
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    First published in 2005 — 4 editions
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    First published in 2005 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Tolkien on Fairy-Stories

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  • Cover of: The Silmarillion, Volume 2 (J.R.R. Tolkien)

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  • Cover of: Tolkien's Lost Tales

    First published in 1992 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Poems from The lord of the rings

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    First published in 1999 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1981 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: J. R. R. Tolkien: a Biography

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  • Cover of: Of the darkening of Valinor and of the flight of the Noldor from The silmarillion

    First published in 1978 — 3 editions
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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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