J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, ; . In General American, the surname is commonly pronounced .}} 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''.From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.
After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including ''The Silmarillion''.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, within it, Middle-earth. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term ''legendarium'' to the larger part of these writings.
While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the tremendous success of ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings'' ignited a profound interest in the fantasy genre and ultimately precipitated an avalanche of new fantasy books and authors. As a result, he has been popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature and is widely regarded as one of the most influential authors of all time.
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Ancrene wisse; the English text of the Ancrene riwle, edited from ms. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 402,
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo /
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The Tolkien companion / by Tyler, J. E. A.
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J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit / by Gray, Patsey
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The Old English Exodus /
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Leaving Rivendell : selected songs and poems from the Lord of the rings /
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J. R. R. Tolkien, scholar and storyteller : essays in memoriam /
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The hobbit : an unexpected journey : chronicles : art & design / by Falconer, Daniel
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight;
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Beowulf and the Finnesburg fragment; a translation into modern English prose,
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The Lord of the rings : The return of the king
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The Lord of the rings : The two towers
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