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After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including ''The Silmarillion''.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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The two towers : being the second part of the lord of the rings / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The fall of Númenor : and other tales from the second age of Middle-earth / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The lord of the rings / by Tolkien, J. R. R., 1892-1973
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The Hobbit ; and, The lord of the rings / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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Beowulf : the monsters and the critics / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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Unfinished tales of Numenor and Middle-earth / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The adventures of Tom Bombadil : and other verses from The red book / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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Finn and Hengest : the fragment and the episode / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The hobbit, or, There and back again / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The monsters and the critics, and other essays / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The lays of Beleriand / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The shaping of Middle-earth : the Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the annals, together with the earliest 'Silmarillion' and the first map / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The lost road and other writings : language and legend before "The lord of the rings" / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The annotated Hobbit : The hobbit, or, There and back again / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The treason of Isengard : the history of the Lord of the rings, part two / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The Hobbit and the lord of the rings / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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Beowulf and the critics / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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The Silmarillion / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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Bilbo's last song : at the Grey Havens / by Tolkien, J. R. R. 1892-1973
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