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J. R. R. Tolkien

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE FRSL (/ˈtɒlkiːn/; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is 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—they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as the Inklings. Tolkien was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on 28 March 1972.

After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion. These, together with The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings form a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world called Arda, and Middle-earth within it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the term legendarium to the larger part of these writings. While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien, the great success of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings led directly to a popular resurgence of the genre. This has caused Tolkien to be popularly identified as the "father" of modern fantasy literature—or, more precisely, of high fantasy.

In 2008, The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Forbes ranked him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009.

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The Lord of the Rings

  1. The Fellowship of the Ring
  2. The Two Towers
  3. The Return of the King

Fiction

  1. The Hobbit
  2. Farmer Giles of Ham
  3. Tree and Leaf
  4. The Tolkien Reader

Short Story

  1. Leaf by Niggle
  2. Smith of Wootton Major

Poem

  1. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
  2. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
  3. The Road Goes Ever On
  4. The Battle of the Eastern Field
  5. From the many-willow'd margin of the immemorial Thames
  6. Goblin Feet
  7. Kortirion among the Trees
  8. Over Old Hills and Far Away
  9. A Song of Aryador
  10. The Shores of Elfland
  11. Habbanan beneath the Stars
  12. The Sorrowful City
  13. The Horns of Ulmo
  14. The Happy Mariners
  15. The Clerke's Compleinte
  16. Iúmonna Gold Galdre Bewunden
  17. The Eadigan Saelidan
  18. Why the Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon
  19. Enigmata Saxonic
  20. The Cat and the Fiddle
  21. An Evening in Tavrobel
  22. The Lonely Isle
  23. The Princess Ni
  24. Light as Leaf on Lindentree
  25. The Nameless Land
  26. Adventures in Unnatural History and Mediaeval Metres, being the Freaks of Fisiologus
  27. Tinfang
  28. Mythopoeia
  29. Progress in Bimble Town
  30. Errantry
  31. Firiel
  32. Looney
  33. Songs for the Philologists
  34. The Dragon's Visit
  35. Knocking at the Door
  36. The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun
  37. Imram
  38. Elvish translations of Catholic prayers
  39. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
  40. The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
  41. Once upon a time
  42. Bilbo's Last Song
  43. For W. H. A.
  44. King Sheave
  45. Narqelion

Play

  1. The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son

Academic and Other Works

  1. A Middle English Vocabulary
  2. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  3. Some Contributions to Middle-English Lexicography
  4. The Devil's Coach Horses
  5. Ancrene Wisse and Hali Meiðhad
  6. The Name 'Nodens'
  7. Sigelwara Land
  8. Chaucer as a Philologist
  9. Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics
  10. The Reeve's Tale
  11. On Fairy-Stories
  12. Sir Orfeo
  13. On Fairy-Stories
  14. Ofermod and Beorhtnoth's Death
  15. Middle English "Losenger"
  16. Ancrene Wisse: The English Text of the Ancrene Riwle
  17. English and Welsh
  18. Introduction to Tree and Leaf
  19. Contributions to the Jerusalem Bible
  20. Foreword to the Second Edition of The Lord of the Rings
  21. Tolkien on Tolkien

Posthumous Publications

  1. Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings
  2. Translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  3. The Father Christmas Letters
  4. The Silmarillion
  5. Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
  6. Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
  7. Poems and Stories
  8. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
  9. The Old English "Exodus" Text
  10. Finn and Hengest
  11. Mr. Bliss
  12. The Monsters and the Critics
  13. The History of Middle-earth
  14. J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
  15. Roverandom
  16. A Tolkien Miscellany
  17. Beowulf and the Critics
  18. Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings
  19. The Children of Húrin
  20. The History of The Hobbit
  21. Tales from the Perilous Realm
  22. The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
  23. The Fall of Arthur
  24. Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary
  25. The Story of Kullervo

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