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- J.R.R. Tolkien (born January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa—died September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England) was an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
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Apr 19, 2024 · J.R.R. Tolkien (born January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa—died September 2, 1973, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England) was an English writer and scholar who achieved fame with his children’s book The Hobbit (1937) and his richly inventive epic fantasy The Lord of the Rings (1954–55). At age four Tolkien, with his mother and younger ...
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Early life
Christopher Tolkien was named after his father's friend, Christopher Wiseman(he also sometimes used his confirmation name, "John" as seen on his initials of maps of The Lord of the Rings, "CJRT"). Born in Leeds and raised in Oxford, Christopher went to the Dragon School in Oxford and Oratory School in Caversham, Berkshire. He enjoyed watching stars with a telescope as well as a passion for railways. As early as age four and five, Christopher was concerned with the consistency of The Hobbit. C...
Young adulthood
In July of 1943 he entered the Royal Air Force and in November of that year he went to South Africa to train as a pilot. His absence did not however slow his contributions to his father's works as his father continually sent him parts of The Lord of the Rings to go over. In 1945he returned to England and was stationed in Shropshire and later that year he returned to Oxford. On October 9th, 1945 his father informed him that the Inklings wished to consider him a permanent member. The task of re...
Adulthood
In 1946 Christopher returned to Trinity College to resume his studies and reading English. For a while his tutor was C.S. Lewis. His thesis was a translation of The Saga of King Heidrek the Wise and he received his B.A. in 1949. Christopher also became a lecturer in Old and Middle English as well as Old Icelandic at Oxford. He worked as an editor on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner's Tale, and the Nun's Priest's Tale. From 1963 to 1975he was a Fellow of New College, Oxford but resigne...
Christopher Tolkien had never in his entire life sympathized the adaptations at any form of the works of his father. As a result, he never approved the idea of the adaptations of any works of his father that Tolkien Estate hold the copyright at any form, such as The Silmarillion or The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.
Christopher's first wife, Faith (1928) took an English degree at Oxford and they had one son, Simon Tolkien. A bustof Tolkien by Faith was exhibited at the Royal Academy: Tolkien paid for its casting in bronze. It is now in the English Library in Oxford. Christopher's second wife, Baillie (1941) is Canadian, and is the daughter of Winnipeg surgeon ...
Books
1. 195?: Tolkien Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks Konungs. C.J.R. Tolkien (Oxford University, Trinity College). B. Litt. thesis. 1953/4. [Year uncertain] 2. 1956: Hervarar Saga ok Heidreks. Ed. [E.O.] G. Turville-Petre. London: University College London, for the Viking Society for Northern Research, 1956; introduction by Christopher Tolkien. 3. 1958: The Pardoner's Tale. Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Nevill Coghill and Christopher Tolkien. London: George G. Harrap, 1958. [29 Oct 58] 4. 1959: The Nun's Pries...
Articles
1. 1955-6: Saga-Book (University College, London, for the Viking Society for Northern Research) 14, part 3 (1955-6), pp. -63. 1.1. "The Battle of the Goths and the Huns" 2. 1975: A Tolkien Compass 2.1. "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings". J.R.R. Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien 3. 1975: Les aventures de Tom Bombadil 3.1. [Handwritten note by Christopher Tolkien, dated March 1974, introducing two pages of script by J.R.R. Tolkien] 4. 1980: Mallorn 14 4.1. "The Silmarillion, by J.R.R....
Ephemera
1. 1976: The Lord of the Rings 1977 Calendar. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1976. Notes on the Pictures by Christopher Tolkien. 2. 1976: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings by J.R.R. Tolkien at the Ashmolean Museum Oxford ... Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, 1976. Introduction by Baillie Tolkien. [?14 Dec 76] 3. 1977: The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Brief Account of the Book and its Making(pamphlet) 4. 1977: The Silmarillion Calendar 1978. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977. Notes on th...
J. R. R. Tolkien. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL ( / ˈruːl ˈtɒlkiːn /, ROOL TOL-keen; [a] 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 ...
Feb 5, 2024 · By David Doughan MBE. Who was Tolkien? Photo by Pamela Chandler. © The Tolkien Society. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892–1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English.
Early Life. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa, to English parents.
Aug 10, 2020 · John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa, on January 3, 1892. His family would move to Birmingham, England, in 1896 after his father died, and Tolkien's mother would pass...
Christopher John Reuel Tolkien was an English and naturalised French academic editor. The son of author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien edited much of his father's posthumously published work, including The Silmarillion and the 12-volume series The History of Middle-Earth.
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