JRR 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.

Other novels, stories and books by JRR Tolkien include:

* A middle English Vocabulary
* Beowulf: The Monsters and The Critics
* The Hobbit
* Farmer Giles of Ham
* The Lord of the Rings
* The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
* Tree and Leaf
* The Tolkien Reader
* Smith of Wootton Major
* Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham
* Bilbo's Last Song
* Farmer Giles of Ham [and] The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
* Tree and Leaf, Smith of Wootton Major [and] The Homecoming of Beornoth Beorthhelm's Son
* The Father Christmas Letters
* The Silmarillion
* Poems and Stories
* Unfinished Tales
* Mr.Bliss
* The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
* Smith of Wootton Major and Leaf by Niggle
* The History of Middle-Earth
* Roverandom
* Oliphaunt

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