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1964 Tree and Leaf ( On Fairy-Stories and Leaf by Niggle in book form) 1966 The Tolkien Reader ( The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, On Fairy-Stories, Leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) 1967 Smith of Wootton Major (short story), published as an illustrated chapbook.
May 9, 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 ...
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 Fellow of ...
Apr 2, 2014 · (1892-1973) Who Was J.R.R. Tolkien? J.R.R. Tolkien was an English fantasy author and academic. Tolkien settled in England as a child, going on to study at Exeter College.
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Feb 5, 2024 · 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 ...
Aug 10, 2020 · J.R.R. Tolkien didn’t think The Hobbit was a children’s book. Since its publication in 1937, author J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit has sold more than 100 million copies. / Tim Sackton, Flickr ...
May 9, 2024 · Sir Gawain & The Green Knight. Ed. J.R.R. Tolkien and E.V. Gordon. The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1925. (Now available in a second edition edited by Norman Davis.) A modern translation of the Middle English romance from the stories of King Arthur. The Hobbit: or There and Back Again.
