J. R. R. Tolkien
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 —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 After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion.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.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
2027 · Novel
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
2024 · Characters
Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings
2024 · Self - Writer (archive footage)
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Global Fan Screening
2022 · Novel
Dagor Dagorath
2016 · Author
Robert Gilson: Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
2016 · Self (archive footage)
Ainulindalë (J.R.R Tolkien Short Animation)
2015 · Writer
El Hobbit 3: La batalla de los Cinco Ejércitos
2014 · Novel
El Hobbit 2: La desolación de Smaug
2013 · Novel
El Hobbit: Un viaje inesperado
2012 · Novel
The Mewlips
2008 · Author
Mr. Bliss
2004 · Novel
Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Return of the King
2003 · Self (archive footage), Book
El señor de los anillos: El retorno del rey
2003 · Novel
Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Hobbit
2003 · Self (archive footage), Novel
Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
2003 · Self (archive footage), Book
Secrets of Middle-Earth: Inside Tolkien's The Two Towers
2003 · Self (archive footage), Book
El señor de los anillos: Las dos torres
2002 · Novel
J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings - The Definitive Guide to the World of the Rings
2002 · Self (archive footage)
El señor de los anillos: La comunidad del anillo
2001 · Novel
J.R.R. Tolkien
1998 · Self (archive footage)
The Hobbit: Treasures Under the Mountain
1994 · Novel
J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973
1992 · Self (archive footage)
The Hobbit: The Fabulous Journey of Mr. Bilbo Baggins
1985 · Novel
The Return of the King
1980 · Novel
The Lord of the Rings
1978 · Novel
The Hobbit
1977 · Novel
Sagan om ringen
1971 · Novel
Tolkien in Oxford
1968 · Himself
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
1967 · Novel
The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past
· Characters, Novel
