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J.R.R. Tolkien

3 January 1892 - 2 September 1973

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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  • Cover of: Sauron Defeated

    First published in 2010 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The 1992 J.R.R. Tolkien Calend

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  • Cover of: The invented worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien: drawings and original manuscripts from the Marquette University collection, October 21, 2004 - January 30, 2005, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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  • Cover of: The Tolkien Reader

    First published in 1966 11 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: SEÑor de LOS ANILLOS 1. la Comunidad Del Anillo (TV Tie-In) - the LORD of the RINGS 1. the Fellowship of the Ring (TV Tie-in) (Spanish Edition)

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Subjects
Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Fiction, fantasy, epic, Fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Gandalf (fictitious character), fiction, Baggins, frodo (fictitious character), fiction, English Fantasy fiction, English literature, History and criticism, Tolkien, j, r. r. (john ronald ruel), 1892-1973, Fantasy fiction, Fantasy, Children's fiction, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Poetry, English Fantasy literature, Frodo Baggins (Fictitious character), Juvenile fiction, Middle earth (imaginary place), Baggins, bilbo (fictitious character), fiction, Beowulf, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Imaginary languages in literature
Places
Middle Earth, England, Middle-earth, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Rivendell, Gondor, Isengard, Lonely Mountain, Middle-Earth, Mordor, Tierra Media, Valinor, Bree, Edoras, Fangorn Forest, Iron Hills, Ithilien, Lake-town, Little Kingdom (fictional place), Milwaukee, Minas Tirith, Mirkwood, Misty Mountains, Mount Doom, Númenor
People
J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Elrond, Frodo Baggins, Gollum, Sauron, Boromir, 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

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January 22, 2024 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import