John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE, 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. He served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 and Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1945 to 1959. He was at one time 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 After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion.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 Middle-Earth within it. 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 great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the father of modern fantasy literature —or, more precisely, of high fantasy. In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.
Filmography (12)
Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings2024
Wonderland: From JM Barrie to JRR Tolkien2022
Robert Gilson: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer2016
Ainulindalë (J.R.R Tolkien Short Animation)2015
Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Two Towers2003
Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring2003
Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Hobbit2003
Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Return of the King2003
J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings - The Definitive Guide to the World of the Rings2002
J.R.R. Tolkien1998
J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-19731992
Tolkien in Oxford1968
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