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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Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, general, English Fantasy fiction, History and criticism, Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, fantasy, epic, English literature, Children's fiction, Fantasy, Lord of the rings (Tolkien, J.R.R.), Open Library Staff Picks, Romans, nouvelles, Terre du Milieu (Lieu imaginaire), Baggins, frodo (fictitious character), fiction, Ficción, Gandalf (fictitious character), fiction, Poetry, Baggins, bilbo (fictitious character), fiction, Bilbo Baggins (Fictitious character), English Fantasy literature, Fairy tales, Ficción fantástica inglesaPlaces
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- OLID: OL26320A
- ISNI: 0000000121441970
- VIAF: 95218067
- Wikidata: Q892
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- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
- J. R. R. Tolkein
- J.R.R. Tolkein
- Dzhon R. R. Tolkin
- Yue Han Luo Na De Rui Er Tuo Er Jin
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