J R R Tolkien

J R R Tolkien
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Christopher Tolkien, Inklings, J. R. R. Tolkien's influences, Tolkien family, J. R. R. Tolkien bibliography, Merpcon, Edith Tolkien, Joseph Wright, Tim Tolkien, Middle-earth Enterprises, The Eagle and Child, Tolkien tourism, Humphrey Carpenter, Lydney Park, E. V. Gordon, Northmoor Road, Perrott's Folly, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Great Haywood, Sarehole Mill, Holywell Street, Merton Street, Wolvercote Cemetery, Simon Tolkien, Sandfield Road, Eucatastrophe, Cats of Queen Ber thiel, St John Street, Oxford, J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, The Tolkien Trust, Stanley Unwin, J.R. Tolkien, Tolkien Estate, J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography, Viking Club, Shire Country Park. Excerpt: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE (3 January 1892 - 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature there from 1945 to 1959. He was a close friend of C. S. Lewis-they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972. After his death, Tolkien's son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings. Wh...

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