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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's first civilian job after World War I was at the Oxford English Dictionary, where he worked mainly on the history and etymology of words of Germanic origin beginning with the letter W. | | | 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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| | Works inspired by J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tolkien was very critical of these, and in 1946 he rejected illustrations by Horus Engels for the German edition of the Hobbit as "too Disnified". | | | Probably the widest-known Tolkien illustrators of the 1990s and 2000s are John Howe, Alan Lee, and Ted Nasmith — Alan Lee for illustrated editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Ted Nasmith for illustrated editions of The Silmarillion, and John Howe for the cover artwork to several Tolkien publications. | | | The earliest illustrations of Tolkien's works were drawn by the author himself. |
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| | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| | Tolkien himself said there was a danger in too much interest in the life of an author, as it distracted attention from the author's work. | | | It is said that Tolkien based the bad-tempered miller in The Lord of the Rings on the miller there, who perhaps understandably shouted at him and his younger brother when they were playing in the mill yard. | | | Although he was the author of academic work on Anglo-Saxon and Middle English, it is for his novels that Tolkien is best known. |
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| | JRR Tolkien |
| | By that time the Tolkien’s family consisted of four children (three sons and a daughter) and more than anything father liked to tell his children about mythical beings – elves, hobbits, etc. At first such stories were simply fairy tales. | | | And the first book, which made him famous worldwide, “the Hobbit” (published in 1937) was written in the genre of a fairy tale. | | | After the war he obtained a post on the New English Dictionary, and began to write the mythological and legendary cycle which he originally called “The Book of Lost Tales” but which eventually became known as “The Silmarillion”. |
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| | J.R.R. Tolkien Biography - Philologist, author, mythmaker and creator of "Middle Earth" |
| | Tolkien wrote 'A Middle English Vocabulary', but it was not published until 1922, but after it was published some copies were bound with 1st impressions of Sisam’s book, 'Fourteenth Century Verse and Prose' which was published one year before. | | | While The Hobbit hinted at the history of Middle-earth that Tolkien had created in his "Lost Tales" (which he was now calling "The Silmarillion"), the sequel drew heavily upon it. | | | In its wake, Tolkien's work left not only a host of sword-and-sorcery imitators and devoted fans, but a lasting legacy in the hundreds of virtual worlds that have come to life in books and films since. |
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| | Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973) |
| | Tolkien gave his argument careful exposition in his Andrew Lang Lecture of 1937, "On Faerie Stories." There he argued that mythic tales grope toward the Hope which, in the story of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Jesus Christ, finally enters space and time to become historical reality, God's own myth-made-fact. | | | Tolkien's own faith would be shaped by the Oratorians' attempt to steer a middle path between the world-denying asceticism of medieval monasticism and the self-indulgent worldliness of much modern Protestantism. | | | Tolkien hit upon the idea of introducing a new hobbit, Bilbo's son, as the center of the story, and of giving the ring Bilbo had found a moral rather than a magical significance. |
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| | Literary Encyclopedia: J. R. R. Tolkien |
| | She introduced Tolkien to languages, especially Latin, and to fairy tales, the Arthurian legends, and the fantastic stories of George Macdonald. | | | Their romance is commemorated in a number of Tolkien's writings, from the tale of the lovers Beren and Lúthien, whose names appear on the Tolkiens' tombstone at Wolvercote Cemetery in Oxford, to the poignantly retrospective late masterpiece Smith of Wootton Major. | | | The Tolkiens (the name, by Tolkien's own account, an anglicised derivative of German tollkühn, “foolhardy”;) had emigrated to England from Saxony in the eighteenth century. |
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| | wotmania: feed your wheel of time addiction |
| | Gathered by Tolkien's son, this book features early versions of the first tales, a chronology of the events in Beleriand, the first Silmarillion map, and the only known description of the physical nature of Middle-earth's universe. | | | Tolkien discussed the minutia of his legend--sometimes at great length--with friends, publishers, and even fans who wrote to him with questions. | | | Tolkien's unfinished story, The Lost Road, chronicles the original destruction of N&, a pivotal event of the Second Age of Middle-earth. |
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| | Tolkien Biography |
| | When Tolkien introduces Gandalf to us, he explains that Gandalf's fame in The Shire is "mainly due to his skill with fires, smokes and lights", but that the Shire folk know nothing of his "real business". | | | A valid interpretation of Tolkien needs to ask how his works might be applicable to events and situations. | | | Themes of temptation run through the story: Frodo struggles against the temptation to use the ring; Gandalf tells Frodo what great need he has of it but refuses it; Galadriel is offered it and through wisdom declines it. |
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| | JRR Tolkien Biography - The Tolkien Society |
| | In typical Tolkien fashion, he then decided he needed to find out what a Hobbit was, what sort of a hole it lived in, why it lived in a hole, etc. From this investigation grew a tale that he told to his younger children, and even passed round. | | | At this time he was also working on various poetic attempts, and on his invented languages, especially one that he came to call Qenya [sic], which was heavily influenced by Finnish - but he still felt the lack of a connecting thread to bring his vivid but disparate imaginings together. | | | The reader's reaction was mixed: dislike of the poetry and praise for the prose (the material was the story of Beren and Lúthien) but the overall decision at the time was that these were not commercially publishable. |
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| | Home Page - The Tolkien Society |
| | The main section is made up of individual 'word studies' which explore words found in Tolkien's fiction in terms of their origins, development, and significance in his fictional world, with entries on such words as 'hobbit', 'mathom', 'dwarf', 'Middle Earth', 'attercop', 'precious', 'Smeagol', and 'waybread'. | | | The Tolkien Library has announced publication of the complete bibliography of all Dutch Tolkien books on line. | | | This site has information about JRR Tolkien (not, as often stated, JRR Tolkein), the books he wrote, his life, books others have written about him, our Society and its events, and a host of other items that you can find in the sections below. |
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| | The New York Times: |
| | J. Tolkien, linguist, scholar and author of "The Lord of the Rings," died today in Bournemouth. | | | A selection of rare editions of "The Lord of the Rings" and illustrations by J. Tolkien. | | | A production less of Tolkien himself than of the Tolkien industry - a book for the specialist, the scholar of Middle-earth, the addict, who will doubtless revel in the wealth of lore that it provides. |
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| | University of Toledo Libraries Exhibit: J. R. R. Tolkien |
| | His son, Christopher Tolkien, was able to complete it and publish a set of 'histories' of Middle Earth using his father's notes and unfinished manuscripts. | | | There are now guides and atlases to Middle Earth, literary magazines devoted to Tolkien and his contemporaries, yearly calendars, etc. He has of course inspired many of the fantasy writers of the late twentieth century as well. | | | He was a translator, critic, and philologist (classical linguist.) He worked as a translator of the Jerusalem Bible and wrote definitions and researched word origins for the Oxford English Dictionary. |
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| | J.R.R. Tolkien Biography |
| | When he was lying awake, his father would come and sit on his bed and tell him tales of Carrots, a boy with red hair who climbed into a cuckoo clock and went off on a series of strange adventures. | | | And in The Hobbit the leaf-mold of Tolkien’s mind nurtured a rich growth with which only a few books in children’s literature can compare. | | | Those who know and love the works of J.R.R. Tolkien know also that they stand on their own and need no further explication or justification. |
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| | J R R Tolkien - Voyager Online |
| | At first, Tolkien applied himself only unwillingly to this task, but soon he was inspired, and what he had meant to be another book for children grew into The Lord of the Rings, truly a sequel to The Silmarillion rather than to The Hobbit. | | | After the war, he obtained a post on the New English Dictionary and began to write the mythological and legendary cycle which he originally called The Book of Lost Tales but which eventually became known as The Silmarillion. | | | At this time he began to develop his linguistic abilities by inventing languages which he related to 'fairy' or 'elvish' people. |
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| | The Catholic Imagination of J.R.R. Tolkien -- Recommended Reading and Online Resources |
| | Tolkien: Man and Myth observes the relationships that the master writer had with his closest literary colleagues. | | | Fourteen writers contributed to this insightful work on Tolkien, and it will be much-treasured by those who regard him as a literary hero. | | | The Truth Beyond Memory, by John J. Miller. |
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| | J. R. R. Tolkien |
| | Although there are strong fairy tale elements, which Tolkien suppressed in later books, the Hobbit is still the essential precursor to the Lord of the Rings and ought to be on the shelf of any LotR fan. | | | He had many jottings and half formed documents and these were pieced together by Tolkien himself and later by his son Christopher to produce a whole host of Middle Earth extras. | | | A unique work, this long book (around 200,000 words, usually split into three volumes) is THE definitive work of sword and sorcery fantasy and single-handedly dragged what had been something of a pulp fiction backwater into the light of intellectual acceptance. |
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| | Raven's Reviews: J. R. R. Tolkien |
| | The common thread through all of them is that fantastical light that seems to pervade Tolkien's Middle Earth. | | | The stories that Father Christmas tells about his life at the North Pole become more elaborate as the years go by; they range from the Polar Bear's humerous attempts to help make presents, to the invasion of the Goblins at the same time as the bombing of England. | | | This is not to say everyone loves Tolkien. |
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| | The Grey Havens - Tolkien: Who was J.R.R. Tolkien anyway? |
| | Moreover, Tolkien was an expert in the surviving literature written in these languages. | | | Indeed, his unusual ability to simultaneously read the texts as linguistic sources and as literature gave him perspective into both aspects; this was once described as "his unique insight at once into the language of poetry and the poetry of language" (from the Obituary; Scholar, p. | | | Here you can find pages concerning J.R.R. Tolkien's life, work, what other people said about him and his books... |
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| | J R R Tolkien |
| | After the war, he obtained a post on the 'New English Dictionary' and began to write the mythological and legendary cycle which he originally called 'The Book of Lost Tales' but which eventually became known as 'The Silmarillion'. | | | After completing a First in English Language and Literature at Oxford, Tolkien married Edith Bratt. | | | Tolkien returned to Oxford after his wife's death in 1971. |
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| | The Grey Havens - The Ultimate J.R.R. Tolkien Resource Web Page |
| | But in the film, Jackson has love scenes between her and Aragorn?a romance based on an appendix that Tolkien later wrote about their doomed relationship. | | | If we make a good film, we'll be forgiven, whatever the crimes we commit to the book." Arwen, the beautiful elf played by Liv Tyler, doesn't appear in the book. | | | Indeed, the passion for the first movie and this one is part of a new American obsession with fantasy, a national journey to a mythical past where evil is punished and virtue rewarded (see following story). |
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| | The Tolkien Timeline |
| | This compilation is a chronological list of important events relating to Tolkien's life, career, and scholarly pursuits, and attempts to provide a more clear picture of this astounding man. | | | Tolkien continued to work on both his languages and stories, long after his retirement from Oxford, right up until his death in 1973. | | | Though Tolkien may have died in 1973, the popularity of his work, and the admiration and joy of his fans, has done nothing but grow. |
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| | J. R. R. Tolkien on Esperanto |
| | by J. I take an interest, as a philologist, and as every philologist should, in the international-language movement, as an important and interesting linguistic phenomenon, and am sympathetic to the claims of Esperanto in particular. | | | It may be wondered just how much his study of Esperanto influenced his interest in constructed languages, which later led directly to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. | | | There is evidence -- specifically, a notebook, in Esperanto, written at age 17 by Tolkien -- in the Bodleian Library to indicate that his knowledge of, and interest in, Esperanto was, at least during part of his life, considerably greater than he acknowledges in this article. |
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| | J. R. R. Tolkien Life Stories, Books, & Links |
| | Tolkien is fortunate in possessing an amazing gift for naming and a wonderfully exact eye for description; by the time one has finished his book one knows the histories of Hobbits, Elves, Dwarves and the landscape they inhabit as well as one knows one's own childhood." | | | Also offers an interview with Tolkien, features about his life and works, the writer's obituary, and lesson plans for the teaching of his texts. | | | At this time he stood at the end of his career as a Professor at Oxford University but now he had finally found fame. |
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| | JRR Tolkien |
| | Welcome to Scholar, the only fanlisting listed at The Fanlistings Network for JRR Tolkien, author of many books, one of which is the notable Lord of the Rings epic. | | | If you have no idea of what a fanlisting is then I suggest you to visit TFL 101 or the about section. | | | This site is not affiliated in any way with JRR Tolkien or their management. |
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| | Salon.com Audio J. R. R. Tolkien |
| | Listen to a rare recording featuring Tolkien himself reading from a poem in Elvish and beginning "Ailaurie lantar lassi surinen." It can be found in "The Lord of the Rings," Book Two, Chapter VIII. | | | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was Merton Professor of English language and literature for more than a decade and was recognized as an authority on Old and Middle English. | | | The result was that even during his lifetime over three million copies were sold. |
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| | [minstrels] Luthien Tinuviel -- J R R Tolkien |
| | And Tolkien here makes of it a song fit for the grandest minstrel, so that I am left nostalgic not only for these two lovers but for all the Eldar and all the lost and forgotten histories of Middle Earth. | | | Love his poems and think that this has some of his best descriptive sentences. | | | So I figured the best way to celebrate it was with his poetry. |
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| | J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikiquote |
| | Wonderful people still buy the book, and to a man 'retired' that is both grateful and comforting." | | | The Letters of J. Tolkien, no. 214, a letter to W.H. Auden in 1955, about Tolkien's discovery of Finnish language. | | | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 January 1892 - 2 September 1973) English author and linguist. |
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| | Lord of the Rings Fanatics Site: Non-Flash Home |
| | Learn all about the great books J.R.R. Tolkien wrote concerning Middle-Earth. | | | Copyrights and trademarks for the books, films, articles, and other promotional materials are held by their respective owners and their use is allowed under the fair use clause of the Copyright Law. | | | Learn all about the great man behind the Middle-Earth saga: J.R.R. Tolkien. |
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| | Tolkien, J. R. R. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction | | | A fantasy writer and Oxford don, Tolkien wrote The Hobbit (1937), adapted from stories he told his children. | | | See H. Carpenter and C. Tolkien, ed., The Letters of J. Tolkien (1988); biographies by H. Carpenter (1977, repr. |
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| | The One Ring For Online Tolkien Fans The Lord of the Rings Source |
| | Help make The One Ring self-supporting by becoming a | | | "This new "LOTR" is a smoke-and-lights spectacle that approaches Tolkien's work with respect..." | | | Sarehole Mill itself was the "original" for the Mill at Bywater in the Shire in The Lord of the Rings and is a central point in the Shire Country Park that covers the River Cole, Chinn Brook, as well as Moseley Bog, the Dell and the Dingles where JRR Tolkien played as a child. |
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| | SS > SF > book reviews > J. R. R. Tolkien |
| | home > SF > book reviews > J. | | | SS > SF > book reviews > J. Tolkien | | | The man next to me said suddenly in a dreamy voice: 'Yes, I think I shall express the accusative case by a prefix!' |
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| | September 2: J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle Earth |
| | Tolkien, J.R.R. "On Fairy Stories," in Essays Presented to Charles Williams, edited by C. Lewis. | | | Gripping animation techniques sketch the wizards, elves, dwarfs and hobbits who inhabit the mythical kingdom, including Frodo the hobbit, Gandalf the wizard, and the evil Sauron. | | | September 2, 1973 &; Tolkien's Middle-Earth a Christian World |
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| | J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia |
| | This left the family without an income, so Tolkienes modor brōhte him wunian mid hire ealdorum in Birminghame for a short hwile. | | | Þā hē wæs þrēogēare, Tolkien ēode tō Englalande mid his mēder and brēðer on what was intended to be a lengthy family visit. | | | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (3 Æfterra Gēola, 1892 – 2 Hāligmōnaþ, 1973) wæs scōlere geþēoda and geþēodcræftes, leornere, and wrītere Þæs Holbytlan and his æftergengena: Se Hlāford þāra Hringa. |
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| | The J.R.R. Tolkien Page |
| | I kinda like these Lichs, maybe you will too. | | | A mailing list I run for who people looking for or can offer for others, Tolkien Related material. | | | Have a Tolkien related product you think others might want? |
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| | Although useful, too many of the links have gone dead, and Eric seems to have abandoned this project (probably due to time). | | | One Ring: The Complete Guide to Tolkien Resources | | | I no longer keep a mirror of Eric Lippert's Tolkien Information page here. |
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