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J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer and academic philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955).
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2026· 46 entries
Elfenomeno.com: Biblioteca de Elfenómeno: The Collected Poems of J.R.R. Tolkien
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SensaCine: Este detalle de 'Las dos torres' me molestó durante años, pero está literalmente sacado de la novela de Tolkien
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SensaCine: La adaptación del 'El Señor de los Anillos' que Tolkien no quiso que se hiciera: "No le gustaba la idea, así que se lo cargó"
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Nation.Cymru: Experience a slice of Middle-earth with Tolkien-inspired ‘Hobbit Houses’
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Mshale: Andy Serkis Returns As Gollum In The New Audiobook Of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings Recours Collectif Equifax Transunion (IYeC8Ek6wH)
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Mshale: What Would J.R.R. Tolkien Think Of Palantir? Jared Mccain (KxLnj6iBt3)
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Stairway to Rock: Lecturas universales: «El Silmarillion» de J. R. R. Tolkien
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Mshale: Andy Serkis Reads From J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers Fiat Panda (bTU0iSLSxv)
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Comic Book Resources: The Dark Lord of the Rings Sequel J.R.R. Tolkien Never Wanted You to Read
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Mshale: The BBC ATTACKS Andy Serkis Over Lord Of The Rings Casting - They HATE JRR Tolkien! Tusciaweb (t9VPiSm4Bx)
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Ayuntamiento de Madrid: Club de lectura - JRR Tolkien
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ComicBook.com: The Rings of Power Doesn’t Follow Tolkien's Books, But Does That Really Make It a Bad Show?
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La Razón: Puede ser la serie de fantasía más ambiciosa de las últimas décadas: tiene la firma de Stephen King y la influencia de Tolkien
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Vandal: Rusia hizo su adaptación de 'El Señor de los Anillos' hace 35 años: una extraña obra fiel a Tolkien pero de muy bajo presupuesto
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Comic Book Resources: Tolkien's Lovecraftian Mystery Hides The Perfect Villains For the New Lord of the Rings Movie
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Revista Noticias: Efecto Tolkien: quiénes son los Gandalf que marcharon contra Peter Thiel
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looper.com: How Lord Of The Rings' J.R.R. Tolkien Answered A Letter From The Real Sam Gamgee
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The Telegraph: Katherine Rundell’s fantasies would make JRR Tolkien proud
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“The words are unworthy of the music.”
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“Many young Americans are involved in the stories in a way that I am not.”
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“My stories seem to germinate like a snowflake around a piece of dust,”
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“have what you might call universal morals. I should say they are examples of natural philosophy and natural religion.”
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“approve of, authorise or participate in the making of”
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Elfenomeno.com: Dimitra Fimi, one of the leading voices in Tolkien studies, converses with elfenomeno
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Elfenomeno.com: Dimitra Fimi, una de las grandes voces de los estudios sobre Tolkien, conversa con elfenomeno
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Vandal: Peter Jackson (64), lo confirma: 'A Tolkien le costaría aceptar mi versión de 'El Señor de los Anillos', pero intenté ser fiel'
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IGN: Brandon Sanderson Shares a Look Into Tolkien's Life as a Professor Before He Authored The Lord of the Rings
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Mshale: The BBC ATTACKS Andy Serkis Over Lord Of The Rings Casting - They HATE JRR Tolkien! Cristina Cati (4VtjyzpkdJ)
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Vandal: Peter Jackson (64), lo confirma: 'No quería llevar mis mensajes o ideas a 'El Señor de los Anillos', tenía que honrar a Tolkien'
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Descubre Santander: Reseña "El Hobbit" de J. R. R. Tolkien
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El Debate: De la Comarca a Mordor: cinco calles de Barcelona se convertirán en la Tierra Media de Tolkien por unos días
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Time Out Worldwide: Una parte de Gràcia se convertirá en la Tierra Media de Tolkien para las fiestas
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Elfenomeno.com: Fenopædia Vida y obra de Tolkien (Familia, Autores, ilustradores, editoriales...) Maddo
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Mshale: George RR Martin On Being Compared To JRR Tolkien Clarity Act (b4SDRihzX7)
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Mshale: Tolkien Vs George R.R. Martin: The Biggest Argument In Fantasy Levante Osasuna (o8eTN20EV8)
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Medievalists.net: Unpublished Tolkien Translation of a Medieval Text Brought to Light
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Vandal: Si amas El Señor de los Anillos y 'El Silmarillion', este libro profundiza en la labor de Tolkien, su personalidad y decisiones
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ArchDaily: Galería de La arquitectura de J. R. R. Tolkien: Los Anillos de Poder - 2
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ScreenRant: Tolkien Meets Terry Pratchett's Discworld In 8-Part Prime Video Fantasy Series
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JustWatch: Rings Of Power Season 3’s Balrog Arc Could Surprise Even Tolkien Fans
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GameSpot: Beautiful Slipcased Editions Of J.R.R. Tolkien Classics Get Massive Discounts
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Comic Book Resources: Rings of Power Is Reviving a Lost Tolkien Gandalf Idea Peter Jackson's LOTR Movies Skipped
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el tucumano | Noticias y actualidad de Tucumán: Literatura inmersiva: un espectáculo tucumano que imagina la historia que Tolkien nunca escribió
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SensaCine: Nunca me había dado cuenta, pero este detalle de Legolas en la nieve es totalmente fiel a JRR Tolkien
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The Guardian: The Hunt for Gollum is being criticised for its all-white cast. Blaming Tolkien is the wrong answer
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2025· 4 entries
The Guardian: Is it a critical mineral or a Tolkien invention? Take the Guardian’s nerdiest quiz yet
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Yahoo: J.R.R. Tolkien Estate to Be Represented by London-Based Agency Curtis Brown Heritage
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The Guardian: Statues of JRR Tolkien and his wife to be unveiled in East Yorkshire
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The Guardian: ‘Reduced to nonsense’: JRR Tolkien’s irritation with typist revealed in archive
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2023· 1 entry
To mark the 50th anniversary of Tolkien's death
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2018· 1 entry
Including more than 60 items which had never been seen in public before
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2017· 1 entry
Amazon acquired the global television rights to The Lord of the Rings, for a series of new stories set before The Fellowship of the Ring
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2013· 2 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2013).
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Pembroke College, Oxford University, established an annual lecture on fantasy literature in Tolkien's honour
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2012· 1 entry
Tolkien was among the British cultural icons selected by the artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in a new version of his most famous artwork—the Beatles' Sgt
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2010· 1 entry
“(Prószyński i S-ka; Warszawa 2010; tłum. Agnieszka Sylwanowicz)”
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame for The Lord of the Rings (2009).
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A partial draft of Language and Human Nature, which Tolkien had begun co-writing with Lewis but had never completed, was discovered at the Bodleian Library
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2008· 1 entry
The Times ranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945", and in 2024, Forbes ranked him #60 on a list of 101 greatest authors of all time
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Nebula Award for Best Script for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Nebula Award for Best Script for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2003).
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Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form for The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2003).
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2002· 3 entries
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002).
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Awarded Nebula Award for Best Script for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2002).
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Tolkien was voted the 92nd "greatest Briton" in a poll conducted by the BBC, and in 2004 he was voted 35th in the SABC3's Great South Africans, the only person to appear in both lists
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1996· 1 entry
“René van Rossenberg, "Tolkien's Exceptional Visit to Holland: A Reconstruction", Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature, Vol. 21: No. 2 (1996), Article 45”
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1995· 1 entry
“Wenn mehr von uns Heiterkeit, gutes Tafeln und klingende Lieder höher als gehortetes Gold schätzen würden, so hätten wir eine fröhlichere Welt." - (Thorins Abschiedsworte zu Bilbo) "Der kleine Hobbit", Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 1995, ISBN 3-7915-3554-4, S. 375”
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1987· 1 entry
“[M]y friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and most hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers.”
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Unfinished Tales (1981).
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Mythopoeic Awards for Unfinished Tales (1980).
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Christopher Tolkien published a collection of more fragmentary material, under the title Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
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1979· 6 entries
“... es ist leichter, Halt! zu rufen als Einhalt zu gebieten." - (Fangorn zu Merry und Pippin) Der Herr der Ringe, Band 2 "Die zwei Türme", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-908190-9, Drittes Buch, S. 86. Übers.: Margaret Carroux”
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“Treulos ist, wer Lebewohl sagt, wenn die Straße dunkel wird." - (Gimli über seine Treue zu Frodo als Ringträger) Der Herr Der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, Zweites Buch, S. 342. Übers.: Margaret Carroux”
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“Viele, die leben, verdienen den Tod. Und manche, die sterben, verdienen das Leben. Kannst du es ihnen geben? Dann sei auch nicht so rasch mit einem Todesurteil bei der Hand." - (Gandalf zu Frodo über Gollum) Der Herr der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, Erstes Buch, S. 82. Übers.: Margaret Carroux”
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“Und derjenige, der etwas zerbricht, um herauszufinden, was es ist, hat den Pfad der Weisheit verlassen." - (Gandalf zu Saruman, welcher sich daraufhin als Verräter offenbart) Der Herr der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, Zweites Buch, S. 315. Übers.: Margaret Carroux”
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“Ein Ring, sie zu knechten, sie alle zu finden, // Ins Dunkel zu treiben und ewig zu binden" - Der Herr der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-12-908180-1, S. 7. Übers.: Margaret Carroux”
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“Ratschläge sind eine gefährliche Gabe, selbst von den Weisen an die Weisen, und alle Wege mögen in die Irre führen." - (Gildor an Frodo) Der Herr der Ringe, Band 1 "Die Gefährten", Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1979, Erstes Buch, S. 111. Übers.: Margaret Carroux”
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1978· 2 entries
Awarded Ditmar Award for The Silmarillion (1978).
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Awarded Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel for The Silmarillion (1978).
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1977· 1 entry
An animated musical television film of The Hobbit was made by Rankin-Bass, and in 1980 they produced the animated musical television film The Return of the King, which covered some of the portions of The Lord of the Ring
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1976· 1 entry
The rights were sold to Tolkien Enterprises, a division of the Saul Zaentz Company, and the first film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings was released in 1978 as an animated rotoscoping film directed by Ralph Bakshi wit
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1973· 16 entries
Died 1973-09-02.
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“Boleść jest kamieniem szlifierskim dla silnego ducha.”
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Reported net worth: £190,577.0 (as of 1973).
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Tolkien received steadily increasing public attention and literary fame
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“Jeśli się chce coś znaleźć, trzeba po prostu szukać (…). Rzeczywiście, kto szuka, ten najczęściej coś znajduje, niestety czasem zgoła nie to, czego mu potrzeba.”
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“Opis: pieśń śpiewana przez krasnoludy podczas spotkania u Bilba.”
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“Przygody! To znaczy: nieprzyjemności, zburzony spokój, brak wygód. Przez takie rzeczy można się spóźnić na obiad.”
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“Świat byłby weselszy gdyby więcej jego mieszkańców tak jak ty ceniło dobre jadło, zabawę i śpiew wyżej niż górę złota.”
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“Diabeł ma nieograniczoną pomysłowość, a płeć jest jego ulubionym tematem. Równie zręcznie potrafi złapać człowieka poprzez szczodre, romantyczne czy też czułe motywy, jak też podlejsze czy bardziej zwierzęce.”
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“Kiedy się rozpędzę, rzecz zdaje się pisać sama, jakby wtedy wychodziła na jaw prawda, jedynie niedokładnie dostrzegana we wstępnym szkicu.”
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“Podobno osiągnęliśmy taki poziom cywilizacji, w którym wciąż może istnieć konieczność wykonania egzekucji na przestępcy, ale nie napawania się tym czy wieszania obok niego jego żony i dzieci na oczach rozradowanego tłumu orków.”
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“Cielska góra,Szara skóra,Nos jak żmija,Pył w niebo wzbijam.Gdy krok mój rozbrzmiewa,Walą się drzewa.W pysku mam rogi,Przemierzam drogi,Wachlując uszami,Tak idę latami.Wędruję wciąż sobie,Nie legnę nawet w grobie.Jestem Olifantem,Dziwacznym gigantem.Wielki, gruby, stary,Nie ujrzysz – nie dasz wiary.Gdy zobaczysz mnie,Pomyślisz „Ja śnię”.Bom jest dziw nad dziwyJa – Olifant straszliwy.”
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“Za rokiem rok upływa znów,Do Siedmiu Rzek odpływa.Dzień pełen słońca, noc bez snów;Chwieje się wierzba krzywa.Lecz nigdy już, o żadnej z pórNa Zachód nikt nie płynieI nie zaśpiewa elfów chór,ich pieśń na zawsze zginie.”
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“englischer Schriftsteller und Philologe”
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“eigentlich: John Ronald Reuel Tolkien”
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“[La imaginación sirve para crear] un mundo secundario donde lo que el creador cuenta es ‘verdad’; que está en concordancia con las leyes de este mundo.Y tú lo crees.”
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1972· 2 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1972).
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Deplored having become a cult figure, but admitted that "even the nose of a very modest idol
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1965· 1 entry
While editing The Hobbit for a third edition, that he would have preferred to rewrite the book completely because of the style of its prose
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1959· 1 entry
“Valedictory address to the University of Oxford (1959)”
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1958· 1 entry
“Letter to Deborah Webster (25 October 1958)”
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1957· 3 entries
Awarded International Fantasy Award for Best Fiction for The Lord of the Rings (1957).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1957).
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“About "Leaf by Niggle", in a letter to Caroline Everett (24 June 1957)”
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1956· 2 entries
“Letter to Rayner Unwin (3 July 1956), quoted in The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien (1981), p. 250”
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“Years later, in an incomplete draft of a letter (1956; quoted more extensively below) he stated that Esperanto and other constructed languages like Volapuk, Ido and Novial were "dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends.”
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1955· 2 entries
"I am a West-midlander by blood (and took to early west-midland Middle English as a known tongue as soon as I set eyes on it)
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“I never learned Finnish well enough to do more than plod through a bit of the original, like a schoolboy with Ovid … But the beginning of the legendarium … was in an attempt to reorganise some of the Kalevala, especially the tale of Kullervo the hapless, into a form of my own.”
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1954· 1 entry
Tolkien received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland (of which University College, Galway, was a constituent college)
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1951· 1 entry
“body of more or less connected legend”
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1948· 1 entry
Close to a decade after the first sketches
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1945· 2 entries
“About "Leaf by Niggle", in a letter to Stanley Unwin (18 March 1945)”
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Tolkien moved to Merton College, Oxford, becoming the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature, in which post he remained until his retirement in 1959
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1944· 1 entry
Tolkien expressed admiration for the South African Catholic poet Roy Campbell, whom he considered a defender of the Catholic faith for his actions with the Nationalists in the Battle of Málaga
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1941· 1 entry
“Letter to his son Michael (March 1941)”
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1938· 1 entry
“Réponse à Stanley & Unwin, éditeur du Hobbit. Stanley & Unwin avait transmis à Tolkien, en 1938, une requête de l'éditeur allemand Rütten & Loening, qui voulait recevoir une "Bestätigung" (confirmation) que Tolkien était "de sang aryen" avant d'accepter de publier Le Hobbit en Allemagne.”
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1936· 3 entries
“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”
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To the attention of Susan Dagnall, an employee of the London publishing firm George Allen & Unwin, who persuaded Tolkien to submit it for publication
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“Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), p. 14”
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1932· 3 entries
“A Philologist on Esperanto" in The British Esperantist (May 1932).”
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“Mein Rat an alle, die Zeit oder Interesse haben sich für eine internationale Sprache zu engagieren, wäre: 'Steht fest zu Esperanto'." veröffentlicht in: The British Esperantist, Vol. 28, Mai 1932. A Philologist on Esperanto, Übers.: Wikiquote”
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Published a philological essay on the name "Nodens", following Sir Mortimer Wheeler's unearthing of a Roman Asclepeion at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire, in 1928
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1931· 1 entry
“A Secret Vice" (lecture, 1931) published in The Monsters And The Critics And Other Essays (1983), edited by Christopher Tolkien”
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1930· 1 entry
A congress of Esperantists were told as much by him, in his lecture A Secret Vice, "Your language construction will breed a mythology", but by 1956 he had concluded that "Volapük, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c, &c, are dead
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1925· 2 entries
Aged thirty-three, Tolkien applied for the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, Oxford, he boasted that his students of Germanic philology in Leeds had even formed a "Viking Club"
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Career landmark: Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon (1925–1945).
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1924· 1 entry
Was promoted from a readership at Leeds to a professorship
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1921· 1 entry
“My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.”
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1920· 2 entries
Took up a post as reader in English language at the University of Leeds, becoming the youngest member of the academic staff there
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Became Reader in English Language at the University of Leeds, where he claimed credit for raising the number of students of linguistics from five to twenty
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1918· 1 entry
Tolkien's first civilian job 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
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1917· 1 entry
And she was able to live with me for a while)
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1915· 3 entries
Studied at University of Oxford, Master of Arts (1911–1915).
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Graduated with Old Norse as his special subject
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Studied at Exeter College, Bachelor of Arts (1915).
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1913· 1 entry
To English language and literature, graduating in 1915 with first-class honours
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1911· 2 entries
Tolkien went on a summer holiday in Switzerland, a trip that he recollected vividly in a 1968 letter, noting that Bilbo's journey across the Misty Mountains ("including the glissade down the slithering stones into the pi
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While they were at King Edward's School, Tolkien and three friends, Rob Gilson, Geoffrey Bache Smith, and Christopher Wiseman, formed a semi-secret society they called the T
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1903· 1 entry
Won a Foundation Scholarship and returned to King Edward's
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1900· 1 entry
Despite vehement protests by her Baptist family, which stopped all financial assistance to her
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1896· 1 entry
Moved to Sarehole (now in Hall Green), then a Worcestershire village, later annexed to Birmingham
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1892· 1 entry
Born 1892-01-03.
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