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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 story of Kullervo

    First published in 2015 5 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Lord of the Rings

    First published in 1980 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings

    First published in 1973 4 editions in 1 language — 3 previewable Cover of edition fellowshipofring0000tolk_v0i6 Cover of edition lordofrings0000tolk_k7e8
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  • Cover of: The peoples of Middle-earth

    First published in 1996 4 editions in 2 languages — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: HOBBIT BIRTHDAY BOOK

    First published in 1991 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: A Middle English reader

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  • Cover of: Poems and songs of Middle Earth

    First published in 1972 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Cuentos inconclusos

    First published in 2022 4 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1999 4 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: El Señor de los Anillos III. El Retorno del Rey

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  • Cover of: Fall of Arthur

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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 in 1 language
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  • Cover of: J. R. R. Tolkien: a Biography

    First published in 2011 3 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 2015 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien

    First published in 2012 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Tolkien's Lost Tales

    First published in 1992 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the first part of The Lord of the Rings

    First published in 1967 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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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 in 1 language
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Subjects
Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, fantasy, epic, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Fiction, fantasy, general, Fiction, Gandalf (fictitious character), fiction, Baggins, frodo (fictitious character), fiction, English Fantasy fiction, Tolkien, j, r. r. (john ronald ruel), 1892-1973, English literature, History and criticism, Fantasy fiction, Children's fiction, Middle earth (imaginary place), Fantasy, Poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author), English Fantasy literature, Baggins, bilbo (fictitious character), fiction, Fantasy fiction, history and criticism, Frodo Baggins (Fictitious character), Imaginary languages in literature, Juvenile fiction, Beowulf
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), 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, Middle English, 1100-1500, Prehistory, Second Age, Third Age, 10th century, 1920s, 1920s-1930s, 1920s-1940s, 20e siècle, Early Middle Ages, F.A. 500s, Fictional pre-history, 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
  • J. R. R. Tolkein
  • J.R.R. Tolkein
  • Dzhon R. R. Tolkin
  • Yue Han Luo Na De Rui Er Tuo Er Jin
  • J. R. R. Tolkien

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