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| | J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | But Tolkien was not fond of all the artistic representation of his works that were produced in his lifetime, and was sometimes harshly disapproving. | | | Tolkien never expected his fictional stories to become popular, but he was persuaded by a former student to publish a book he had written for his own children called The Hobbit in 1937. | | | Tolkien wrote a brief summary of the mythology these poems were intended to represent, and that summary eventually evolved into The Silmarillion, an epic history that Tolkien started three times but never published. |
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| | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| | Tolkien was in addition, an accomplished scholar with professorships in English Language and Literature as well as Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University; and he was expert in word origins, mythology, and languages including Old English, Old Norse, and Finnish. | | | Because of the popularity of Tolkien's work, there was a great public hunger for further tales from the land of the hobbits and the elves. | | | J.R.R. Tolkien is the author of the most famous and influential of fantasy fiction works: The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. |
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| | 2675 Tolkien: Encyclopedia topic |
| | 2675 Tolkien is a small main belt (main belt: more facts about this subject) asteroid (asteroid: Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)), which was discovered by M. Watt in 1982. | | | It is named after J.R.R. Tolkien (J.R.R. Tolkien: British philologist and writer of fantasies (born in South Africa) (1892-1973)), professor (professor: Someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university) of medieval literature (medieval literature: medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available... |
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| | The One Ring: The White Council :: View topic - A street named Tolkien? |
| | The Books forum is annotating LOTR, the VTSG is discussing it. | | | The Age of Man - Experiencing Tolkien Today | | | I don't know about a Tolkien Street, but I've heard of several new streets somewhere in the US and Holland, named after places or characters in his works. |
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