Name in Native Language: "John Ronald Reuel Tolkien" (EN-GB)
Poet / Officer (armed Forces) / Author / Writer / Historian / Illustrator / Teacher | * 01/03/1892 († 81, 02/09/1973) | Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (South Africa)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (ROOL TOL-keen; 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College, both at the University of Oxford. He then moved within the same university to become the Merton Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow of Merton College, and held these positions from 1945 until his retirement in 1959. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, a co-member of the informal literary discussion group The Inklings. He 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 After Tolkien's death, his son Christopher published a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, including The Silmarillion.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 o...">()
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien,CBE(/ˈtɒlkiːn/tol-keen; 3 January 1892– 2 September 1973) was an English writer, poet,philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classichigh-fantasyworksThe Hobbit,The Lord of the Rings, andThe Silmarillion.He served as theRawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxonand Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945 andMerton Professor of English Language and Literatureand Fellow ofMerton College, Oxfordfrom 1945 to 1959.He was at one time a close friend ofC. S. Lewis-they were both members of the informal literary discussion group known as theInklings. Tolkien was appointed aCommander of the Order of the British Empireby QueenElizabeth IIon 28 March 1972. After Tolkien's death, his sonChristopherpublished a series of works based on his father's extensive notes and unpublished manuscripts, includingThe Silmarillion. These, together withThe HobbitandThe Lord of the Ringsform a connected body of tales, poems, fictional histories, invented languages, and literary essays about a fantasy world calledArda, andMiddle-earthwithin it. Between 1951 and 1955, Tolkien applied the termlegendariumto the larger part of these writings.While many other authors had published works of fantasy before Tolkien,the great success ofThe HobbitandThe Lord of the Ringsled directly toa 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 Timesranked him sixth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".Forbesranked him the 5th top-earning "dead celebrity" in 2009. - Wikipedia.
Commander of The Order of The British Empire Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame 3x Nebula Award for Best Script Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation 2x Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame International Fantasy Award Ditmar Awardnominated for: Nobel Prize in Literaturenominated for: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentationnominated for: Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novelnominated for: Nebula Award for Best Scriptnominated for: Prometheus Awardnominated for: Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form
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