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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 the Ring
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    Cover of edition triloginomharska0000tolk Cover of edition indebanvandering0000tolk Cover of edition fellowshipofring00tolk_3 Cover of edition dereisgenoten0000tolk Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk_n8i4 Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk_v3l9 Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk_l0f7 Cover of edition leseigneurdesann0000tolk_m4u0 First published in 1954 — 296 editions
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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
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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
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  • Cover of: Farmer Giles of Ham: Aegidii Ahenobarbi Julii Agricole de Hammo, domini de Domito, Aule Draconarie comitis, Regni Minimi regis et basilei, mira facinora et mirabilis exortus, or in the vulgar tongue, 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: The Father Christmas Letters
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  • Cover of: The Book of Lost Tales: Part I
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    Cover of edition isbn_9788830118423 Cover of edition bookoflosttales00jrrt Cover of edition snj.bookoflosttalesvol-1.0001tolk Cover of edition lelivredescontes0000tolk Cover of edition bookoflosttales01jrrt Cover of edition bookoflosttales01tolk Cover of edition bookoflosttalesp00jrrt_0 Cover of edition bookoflosttales0000tolk First published in 1983 — 38 editions
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  • Cover of: Smith of Wootton Major
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  • Cover of: Tales from the perilous realm
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    First published in 1993 — 26 editions
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  • Cover of: The Fall of Gondolin
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  • Cover of: The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit set

    First published in 1979 — 24 editions
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  • Cover of: The Book of Lost Tales: Part II
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  • Cover of: Roverandom
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  • Cover of: Bilbo's Last Song: (At the Grey Havens)
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  • Cover of: The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
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  • Cover of: The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
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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, History and criticism, Fiction, fantasy, epic, Tolkien, j, r. r. (john ronald ruel), 1892-1973, English literature, Fantasy fiction, Baggins, frodo (fictitious character), fiction, English Fantasy literature, Gandalf (fictitious character), fiction, Fantasy, Poetry, Children's fiction, Poetry (poetic works by one author), Textual Criticism, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Middle earth (imaginary place), Fairy tales, Ficción, Imaginary languages in literature, Open Library Staff Picks

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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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Alternative names

  • 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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