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Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien

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Name: J. R. R. Tolkien
Birth Date: January 3, 1892
Death Date: September 2, 1973
Place of Birth: Bloemfontein, South Africa
Place of Death: Bournemouth, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, essayist, poet, editor

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Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
9822 words, approx. 32.7 pages
J. R. R. Tolkien's most familiar creation, the hobbits of Middle-earth, belonged only to his private world until September 1937. Before then they were known only to his children, his great friend C. S. Lewis, and a few other people. The print run of what...
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Biography of J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel) Tolkien
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The place in fantasy literature earned by J. R. R. Tolkien is indisputable. Tolkien is directly responsible for the rising popularity of fantasy literature in the late twentieth century. While authors such as Anne McCaffrey may dominate the scene of mode...
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Biography of J. R. R. Tolkien
5343 words, approx. 17.8 pages
The driving passion of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's literary life was to make his "fairystories" so complete in description and detail, so varied in character and action, so expansive in philosophy and religion, as to be "real." He was in every way the pe...
 


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"Farmer Giles of Ham" is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1937 and published in 1949. The story describes a series of encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax. It is set in a fantasy Great Britain of long ago,...


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Farmer Giles of Ham by J. R. R. Tolkien

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