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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 Silmarillion, Volume I (J.R.R. Tolkien)

    First published in 1998 2 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 1991 3 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 2010 2 editions in 1 language
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    First published in 2003 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Shene migdalim: she-hu ha-ḥeleḳ ha-sheni shel Sar ha-Ṭabaʻot

    First published in 1979 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings 4 Books Boxed Set By J. R. R. Tolkien

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    First published in 2004 1 edition in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth

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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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