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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: The Hobbit
    First published in 1937 416 editions in 23 languages — 52 previewable Cover of edition dehobbit0000tolk Cover of edition hobbitortherebac0000tolk_y8a9 Cover of edition hobbitortherebac0000tolk_t0g2 Cover of edition hobbitortherebac0000tolk_b5p9 Cover of edition hobbitalbotamizp0000tolk Cover of edition hobbitortherebac0000tolk_a2n1 Cover of edition mojieqianzhuanhu0000tolk Cover of edition elhobbitohistori0000tolk Cover of edition bilbolehobbit0000tolk_p8p7

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  • Cover of: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

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  • Cover of: The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings

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  • Cover of: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

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  • Cover of: The Lord of the Rings

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  • Cover of: The Silmarillion
    First published in 1800 136 editions in 12 languages — 19 previewable Cover of edition silmarillion0000unse_s4i7 Cover of edition j.-r.-r.-tolkien-el-silmarillion Cover of edition silmarillion0000tolk Cover of edition isbn_0261102427 Cover of edition silmarilli00tolk Cover of edition silmarillion00jrrt Cover of edition silmarillion00tolk_0 Cover of edition silmarillion0000tolk_l3l9 Cover of edition silmarilliontolk00tolk

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  • Cover of: The Children of Húrin
    First published in 2001 56 editions in 13 languages — 8 previewable Cover of edition childrenofhurin0000tolk Cover of edition dziecihurina0000tolk Cover of edition narnichinhurinta00tolk Cover of edition narnichnhrintale00tolk Cover of edition narnichnhrin00tolk Cover of edition childrenhrin00tolk_672 Cover of edition loshijosdehurin00tolk

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  • Cover of: Farmer Giles of Ham: the rise and wonderful adventures of farmer Giles, Lord of Tame, Count of Worminghall, and king of the Little Kingdom

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  • Cover of: Unfinished tales
    First published in 1980 31 editions in 5 languages — 4 previewable Cover of edition unfinishedtales00tolk Cover of edition unfinishedtaleso00tolk Cover of edition unfinishedtales00jrrt

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

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  • Cover of: The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit set

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  • Cover of: Smith of Wootton Major
    First published in 1967 24 editions in 2 languages — 2 previewable Cover of edition smithofwoottonma1975tolk

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  • Cover of: Roverandom
    First published in 1998 20 editions in 4 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition roverandom00tolk Cover of edition isbn_9780395957998

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  • Cover of: Beren and Lúthien
    First published in 2017 20 editions in 7 languages — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Tree and leaf
    First published in 1964 20 editions in 2 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition treeleaf00tolk Cover of edition treeleaf0000tolk

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  • Cover of: Bilbo's last song: at the Grey Havens

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  • Cover of: The adventures of Tom Bombadil: and other verses from The red book

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  • Cover of: Tales from the perilous realm
    First published in 1993 15 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: The Book Of Lost Tales: Part II
    First published in 1984 15 editions in 4 languages — 3 previewable Cover of edition bookoflosttalesp00jrrt Cover of edition booklosttalesthe00tolk_130

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