J.R.R. Tolkien

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-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide.

In the 1960s he was taken up by many members of the nascent "counter-culture" largely because of his concern with environmental issues. In 1997 he came top of three British polls, organised respectively by Channel 4 / Waterstone's, the Folio Society, and SFX, the UK's leading science fiction media magazine, amongst discerning readers asked to vote for the greatest book of the 20th century.

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[1]: http://www.tolkiensociety.org/tolkien/biography.html

• The Hobbit
  The Hobbit 1938
• The Lord of the Rings
  The Lord of the Rings 2001
• The Fellowship of the Ring
  The Fellowship of the Ring 1972
• The Two Towers
  The Two Towers 1999
• The Silmarillion
  The Silmarillion 1984
• The Return of the King
  The Return of the King 1967
• Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
  Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth 1980
• The Children of Húrin
  The Children of Húrin 2007
• The Hobbit

  
  The Hobbit 1991
• The Book of Lost Tales [1/2]
  The Book of Lost Tales [1/2] 1986
• Beren and Lúthien
  Beren and Lúthien 2017
• Farmer Giles of Ham
  Farmer Giles of Ham 1949
• The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings [collection/set]
  The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings [collection/set] 1979
• The Fall of Gondolin
  The Fall of Gondolin 1985
• Tree and Leaf

  
  Tree and Leaf 1964
• Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens)
  Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens) 1974
• The Return of the Shadow
  The Return of the Shadow 1988
• The Book of Lost Tales [2/2]

  
  The Book of Lost Tales [2/2] 1986
• The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book
  The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book 1962
• The Father Christmas letters

  
  The Father Christmas letters 1995
• Tales from the Perilous Realm

  
  Tales from the Perilous Realm 1997
• The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

  
  The letters of J.R.R. Tolkien 1981
• Roverandom
  Roverandom 1998
• Morgoth's Ring
  Morgoth's Ring 1993