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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (/ ˈ r uː l ˈ t ɒ l k iː n /, [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.
Roverandom is a novella by J. R. R. Tolkien, originally told in 1925, about the adventures of a young dog, Rover.In the story, an irritable wizard turns Rover into a toy, and Rover goes to the Moon and under the sea in order to find the wizard again to turn him back into a normal-sized dog.
Tolkien weaves together a complex story in the style of an interlaced medieval tapestry romance. Much dialogue and many stories and poems are embedded in the narrative. Alongside the main narrative are many other elements such as genealogies and footnotes , giving the impression that Tolkien was the editor and translator of the work, forming an ...
The story of how Tolkien came to write The Hobbit, with the famous first line "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit", is set in the context of life at the University of Oxford, Tolkien's love of language, and his developing skill as a storyteller.
The title page of each volume of The History of Middle-earth has an inscription in Tengwar, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Volume V reads "Herein are collected the oldest Tale of the Downfall of Númenor, the story of the Lost Road into the West, the Annals of Valinor and the Annals of Beleriand in a later form, the Ainulindalë, or ...
J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings has been translated, with varying degrees of success, many times since its publication in 1954–55. Known translations are listed here; the exact number is hard to determine, for example because the European and Brazilian dialects of Portuguese are sometimes counted separately, as are the Nynorsk and Bokmål forms of Norwegian, and the ...
Tolkien began writing the story that would become The Fall of Gondolin in 1917 in an army barracks on the back of a sheet of military marching music.It is one of the first stories of his Middle-earth legendarium that he wrote down on paper, [3] after his 1914 tale, inspired by the Old English manuscript Crist 1, "The Voyage of Earendel, the Evening Star". [4]
Tolkien wished to imitate the style and content of Morris's medievalising prose and poetry romances such as the 1889 The House of the Wolfings, [T 6] and made use of placenames such as the Dead Marshes [T 7] and Mirkwood. [T 8] Tolkien read Morris's 1870 translation of the Völsunga saga when he was a student, introducing him to Norse mythology ...