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J. R. R. Tolkien
Writing
03 Jan 1892
† 02 Sept 1973
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
Biography
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 ...
Also Known As
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, JRR Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien
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J. R. R. Tolkien's Movies
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Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Hobbit
02 Dec 2003
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Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings
13 Sept 2024
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings - The Definitive Guide to the World of the Rings
16 Jul 2002
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J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
01 Jan 1992
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Tolkien in Oxford
30 Mar 1968
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Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Two Towers
01 Jan 2003
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Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
18 Nov 2003
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Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Return of the King
23 Dec 2003
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J.R.R. Tolkien
21 Feb 1998
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Robert Gilson: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
05 May 2016
