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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• Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary

  
  Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary 2001
• The Lost Road and Other Writings
  The Lost Road and Other Writings 1987
• The Fall of Númenor
  The Fall of Númenor 2022
• The War of the Ring

  
  The War of the Ring 1990
• The Peoples of Middle-Earth

  
  The Peoples of Middle-Earth 1996
• The Shaping of Middle-Earth
  The Shaping of Middle-Earth 1986
• Sir Gawain & the Green Knight

  
  Sir Gawain & the Green Knight 1925
• The Story of Kullervo

  
  The Story of Kullervo 2015
• The monsters and the critics, and other essays
  The monsters and the critics, and other essays 1983
• The Lays of Beleriand
  The Lays of Beleriand 1985
• Smith of Wootton Major
  Smith of Wootton Major 1967
• Tolkien On Fairy-stories
  Tolkien On Fairy-stories 2008
• The Treason of Isengard

  
  The Treason of Isengard 1989
• The Fall of Arthur

  
  The Fall of Arthur 2013
• The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
  The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún 2009
• Sauron Defeated
  Sauron Defeated 1992
• One-Hundred-and-One Read-Aloud Classics

  
  One-Hundred-and-One Read-Aloud Classics 1995
• Il signore degli anelli

  
  Il signore degli anelli 2020
• The war of the jewels
  The war of the jewels 1994
• Realms of Tolkien - Images of Middle-Earth

  
  Realms of Tolkien - Images of Middle-Earth 1996
• Yüzüklerin Efendisi 1
  Yüzüklerin Efendisi 1 2016
• The Silmarillion. 1/?
  The Silmarillion. 1/? 1998
• Mr. Bliss

  
  Mr. Bliss 1982
• The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun

  
  The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun 2016